Not a day passed but Indian trails were cut, all heading southward, and on a branch of the Clear Fork we nearly ran afoul of an encampment of forty teepees and lean-tos, with several hundred horses in sight.
In attempting to pass the former point with four Pan-Handle herds in the spring of 1888, I ran afoul of a quarantine convention.
Labe was sorry, too, I don't doubt, when his bedtime went by and he kept runnin' afoul of one of your mistakes after another.
Tim said he run afoul of Laban along about ten last night.
Twas an awful strain on the camera, but it stood it fine; and the photographs he printed up that afternoon was the most horrible collection of mince-pie dreams that ever a sane man run afoul of.
During the succeeding century, the Betton patent was published and republished in advertising, just as if it had never fallenafoul the law.
Other manufacturers sold Bateman's Drops without running afoul of the law.
A few manufacturers, as the years went by, fell afoul of this and other provisions of the law.
The consequence of this was that we no sooner came Abreast of the reef in that locality than we got Afoul of it.
For getting Afoul of the Rocks we had to Fork over twenty dollars to the captain of a tug boat which came and Snaked us off with a Coil of Rope when the tide rose.
Bob Hanaford, where did the lads run afoul of you, an' why didn't you get your pungy down river before the enemy's fleet came up?
The unearthly racket, with the rattle of pistol shots spattering through it, made me certain that Ranga had run afoul of the hunt at his first jump.
Square himself as his own broad shoulders, and strictly law-abiding personally, he was credited with an amiable weakness for befriending every man who had run afoul of the statutes.
His men obeyed, and, as the missiles pounded into the broad sides of their ship, the steersman ran her afoul of the Queen's East Indiaman.
He was there with a load of stock and was just fixing to load them on the cars to ship them to Galveston when I ran afoul of him.
Close to the Indian Territory line we run afoul of the whole Cheyenne tribe.
Well, some of these days I may run afoul of Egbert again.
But it is funny that, if there was a tramp there such a little while ago, I didn't run afoul of him.
When a man's been to sea as long's I have he runs afoul of pretty nigh every kind of habit there is, seems so.
Same kind of side whiskers old Cap'n Spencer of the Farewell used to carry that voyage when I fust run afoul of you.
But an hour or so ago he ran afoul of me and, without my saying a word, paid up like a man, every cent.
Jack confided to his chum the fact that he had overheard Lieutenant McClure say the Dewey probably had ventured too close in shore and had run afoul of a sand bar.
A junk full of coolies armed with stink-pots was something to speak of, but who ever heard of the likes of Blueskin falling afoul of anything more than a Spanish canoe or a Yankee coaster?
He said that it was known down at Indian River that Blueskin had fallen afoulof an English bark, had burned her and had murdered the captain and all but three of the crew, who had joined with the pirates.
That she'd made a mistake and run afoulof an asylum for the feeble-minded.
I suspect, Joe, that you have run afoul of Samson, the hired man of Meshach Milburn, who is a boxer, though I wonder that he could get away with your youth and size.
Sam, a student of poker, ran afoul of four queens and went home broke.
She kept an orderly five dollar house and if anyone chose to break her rules of conduct, he ran afoul of her six-gun.
Twas somethin' like this: "If an irresistible force runs afoul of an immovable object, what's the result?
I most certainly did not, so we went along, keeping our eyes on the ground lest we run afoul of a snake.
But I vetoed this proposition, feeling that we had already run afoul of "His Majesty the King" and not caring to take another chance.
A grim looking pair; I should not have cared to run afoul of them on the Barbary Coast after midnight.
The man who called us said that the little squarehead--the lad Swope had manhandled--had again fallen afoul the masters.
We drove at him together, Dick and I, and so must needs fall afoul of each other clumsily, giving him time to spring back and so to miss the claymore stroke which else would have shorn him to the middle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afoul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
