I resolved to wash my hands of the whole gang as soon as I had got my money back by fair means or foul.
Again, Grey says that he had intended to seize his nephew by fair meansor foul.
She proposed to do all that was necessary by fair means.
He cannot be called a man of scrupulous honour, or he would not have arrested the Geraldines at dinner, or professed his intention to capture his nephew by fair means or foul.
He was thus perfectly ready to enter into any scheme which his father might propose for gaining her, either by fair means or foul.
There never was a man like him for scraping money together by fair meansor foul.
He came once and tried to get her from us by fair means, but we would not give her up for all his promises.
I must raise the wind by fair means or foul to satisfy my fellows, as well as to make another venture before I cry die.
By fair means or foul, every proprietor who could not be a chief was forced to be a vassal.
They made him serve in the army until, completely ruined, he was induced, by fair means or foul, to give up his freehold.
By hook or by crook, by fair means or foul, he must put a stop to his hopes in that quarter.
A Vaisya should make gifts, study the Vedas, perform sacrifices, and acquire wealth by fair means.
Even he that is wicked should be subdued by fair means.
They that are possessed of courage and that, casting away all fear of death, engage in battle, desirous of victory by fair means, succeed in overcoming all difficulties.
Some said he ought to deliver him, others advis'd to appease Daroes by fair means.
When the Consultation was over, the King dispatch'd Messengers to his Unkle, intreating him to repair to Court to stop ill Mouths by fair Means, and appease the Neighbouring Princes.
We'll smoke him out if he will not come by fair means: we must have him, dead or alive.
The thing must be done, and speedily; for if it be not done by fair means, it will surely do itself by foul.
I never set my heart on a thing yet, that I didn't get it at last by fair meansor foul--and I'll get her!
Yet, with all this softening of his disposition, he was never more determined to carry out his object with respect to Winny Cavana, by fair means--or by foul!
The simpleminded native is made the victim of the progressive white, who, by fair means or foul, deprives him of his country.
That the Irish people will eventually become the masters of the Irish property, from which every effort has been made to dispossess them, by fair means and by foul, since the Norman invasion of Ireland, I have not the slightest doubt.
The object of the Irishman was to keep out the intruder; and, if he could not be kept out, to get rid of him by fair means or foul.
He had defeated the English in a battle, in which Meiller de Exeter and several others were slain; he had taken the Castle of Kildare; therefore, as he could not be taken himself by fair means, treachery was employed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fair means" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
