If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those foils you carry than on dexterity of tongue," said the other student, "you would have been head of the degrees, where you are now tail.
This terrace was the scene of the morning fencing, when the clashing of foils and Sir Charles's shouts of laughter resounded to the neighbouring gardens.
Such social life, like the morning's rapid turn with the foils or the Sunday afternoon on the river, helped to save him from breakdown under a strain of work persistently intense.
A sword unbated,] Not blunted, as foils are by a button fixed to the end.
They are right in this much, that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own the felon foils them, of course.
It also showed the weapons in their hands, and for a moment I felt reassured when I saw these were swords, for I had seen them before with foils in their hands practising for exercise, as they said, in the great garret.
De Fresnoy moved forward, took in either hand the foils at the points, drew them together until they met, left them so and moved back.
Barouffski was accorded the choice of arms, foils were designated by his seconds and the meeting was arranged to be held in his garden, at two the next day.
Let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose, I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Osric, and Lords, with other Attendants with foils and gauntlets.
A couple of wretched trees made the Forest of Arden for it, five men with raggedfoils the army that conquered at Agincourt: are we stronger than it, or weaker?
Agincourt by showing four or five men with vile and ragged foils Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous.
As the foils met in the third bout, the vicomte spoke.
And I was just telling him, Vicomte," put in the Chevalier, "to decline to measure foils with so hardy a swordsman as yourself.
All the tin foils on one side of the glass plates are connected together and all the tin foils on the opposite sides, so as to construct a condenser of any required capacity.
All the lugs on one side are connected together, and so also are all the lugs on the other side, and the two sets of tin foils separated by sheets of mica constitute the two metallic surfaces of the Leyden jar condenser.
I can drive a racing automobile at eighty miles an hour, and with the foils I can play with you.
There were guns and rifles in plenty in a rack by the chimney-piece, a row of bookcases along the north wall, golf clubs, cricket bats, and foils everywhere.
Foils were brought, and we whiled away best part of an half-hour.
As I was on the point of returning indoors with the foils under my arm, Andrea called me back.
The object of smearing the foils all over with shellac is to prevent them being acted upon by the acid.
Contact to the brass-work on the lid may be made by pressing spring contacts tightly down upon the ends of the silver foils and carrying the connections through the lid.
In this process the air rushes out from between the paper and foils with such vehemence that the paraffin is generally thrown entirely out of the box.
As the fencer has his hour of practice with the foils so as to keep his hand in, so women practise with sentimental foils.
The hours of practice with the foils are so long there that they look more like days and nights, and the weapons are dangerous sometimes, as they are not blunted.
Having once been involved, they argued first on one subject, then on another, until at last foils and the art of fencing became the subject.
It so happened that one of them was carrying his foils with him, and he suggested that they settle their argument then and there.
And if there is so great a difference between simple foils and blunt swords, you will have no difficulty in believing that the difference between blunt swords and sharp is far greater.
To wear a mask in a bout with the foils was as much as to say that you considered your opponent a duffer, and was not far short of an insult.
It foils itself, if it recall your pain;— Life of my life, I beg you to refrain!
His hope must have been to confine the combatants to an arena which could be effectually policed by the civil power, and in which all fighting except with buttoned foils be prevented.
At this moment the door opened and the Viscount lounged in, but seeing what was toward, seated himself on a corner of the desk as the foils rang together again.
Again the foils met and almost immediately the Major's blade leapt and the Sergeant counted "One--two!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
