In the midst of these preparations Grant sent a request to Commodore Foote to have all his gunboats appear before the enemy, declaring that a terrible conflict during his absence had demoralized a portion of his command.
General Tilghman surrendered to Commodore Foote without conditions; but only the commander, his staff, and sixty men were captured, the main body of the rebel army having been sent to Fort Donelson.
Commodore Foote was severely wounded, fifty-four of his men killed or wounded, two of his craft disabled, and the others crippled by the vigorous fire of the rebels.
Hayne then said that he was about to go into the country, and asked permission to escort Mrs. and Miss Foote to the opera, and to tender to them his private box.
Mrs. Foote was revealed to be a scheming unprincipled woman, but Mr. Foote came out worst of all.
At the expression of the sentence, ‘This moment is worth a whole existence,’ Miss Foote bowed to the audience in grateful acknowledgment of the reception she had met with.
Plymouth was disgusted, thoroughly disgusted, and whatever claims Mr. Footehad before to the notice of some private friends, they now considered these as forfeited for ever.
In the summer of 1815, Maria Foote was engaged as a star to perform at Cheltenham, and there attracted the attention of Fitzharding Berkeley, better known as Colonel Berkeley.
Foote returned to Plymouth with his wife, a sweet innocent girl.
The good-humoured approval that followed these lines, which was in no degree abated by the arch air with which Miss Foote gave them, cannot be conveyed by verbal description.
MARIA FOOTE “If there was ever a creature who merited the sympathy of the world, it is Maria Foote.
Mr. Foote hurried back to town, and as Maria was expecting her confinement, sent off his wife with her into the country under the feigned name of Forbes, to remain in concealment till after that event.
From the disappointment and weariness of mind that weighed on the slighted wife, Mrs. Foote sought relief in attending the theatre nightly and acting on the stage.
And so thei did: so that they that fled keapt thame selfis apart frome the few nomber that war marching upoun foote in ordour.
A Wheele, 22 Foote diamr, 7 Iron Whops, one the Waste, made about three years since.
Foote of trowes made of square timber, hollowed and covered with plancke, valued at 10lb, made by the Farmers.
The stone body thereof 22 foote square in the Front, 2 broken sowes, one taken thence, 2 sowes in the Wall.
The Hutch leading the Watter from the Wheele, 5 foot square, 85 foote long, not mended by these farmers, in repaire.
Foote (Sketches of Western North Carolina) says that Graham made "several plots of the ground showing the position of the different bands at different times.
Foote are in the Southern Literary Messenger, xvi.
Nay I will by myne owne selfe foote the song perchaunce.
Pipe vp a mery note, Let me heare it playde, I will foote it for a grote.
This goodlie bridge, one foote not fastned well, Gan faile, and all the rest downe shortlie fell, Ne of so brave a building ought remained, That griefe thereof my spirite greatly pained.
He has done much to support Mr. Lennstrand in his Freethought work in Sweden; has translated articles by Ingersoll, Foote and others, and has lectured on behalf of the movement.
It was quoted by Mr. Foote in his defences before Judge North and Lord Coleridge, and in the following year he put his name to a second edition.
Foote (to whom I am also indebted for the opportunity of publication), Mr. W.
He has published pamphlets on Religion in Schools, the Ten Commandments and Mrs Besant's Socialism, and has compiled with Mr. Foote the Bible Handbook.
Undaunted, Mr. Foote issued a Christmas number with an illustrated "Comic Life of Christ.
Starting in business for himself he published the Freethinker, for which in '82 he was prosecuted with Mr. Foote and Mr. Kemp.
Mr. Foote is President of the London Secular Federation, and a Vice-President of the National Secular Society.
Young Collins, the poet, who came to town in 1744 to seek his fortune, made his way to the Bedford, where Footewas supreme among the wits and critics.
Garrick was on the tenters of suspense, and there Foote kept him a full hour.
Foote and Garrick often met at the Bedford, and many and sharp were their encounters.
Ten years later (1754) we find Foote again supreme in his critical corner at the Bedford.
One night, Foote came into the Bedford, where Garrick was seated, and there gave him an account of a most wonderful actor he had just seen.
The company were much obliged to Foote for his interference, the hour being considered; though Macklin did not relish this abridgment.
The Hutch leading the Watter from the Wheele, 5 foot square, 85 foote long, not mended by these Farmers, in repaire.
The stone body thereof 22 foote square in the Front, 2 broken Sowes, one taken thence, 2 sowes in the Wall.
Mr. Foote was not less discerning and usefully explicit, saying: "Secularism is founded upon the distinction between the things of time and the things of eternity.
One night, being at supper with Footeand some others at the Bedford, one of the company praised Macklin for the great regularity of his ordinary, and in particular his manner of directing his waiters by signals.
One night as he was preparing to begin, he heard a buz in the room, and spied Foote in a corner talking and laughing immoderately.
In order to do this, he began with the earliest part of the Irish history, and, getting as far as queen Elizabeth, he was proceeding when Foote spoke to order.
There is a Journal extant which was written by one Abigail Foote in 1779.
Foote admits as much in his preface to the published play: 'I was always apprehensive that the subject of the following piece was too abstracted and singular for the comprehension of a mixed assembly.
Foote did not care for continuous story; he could generally secure the favour of the audience by the wit of his dialogue and a quick succession of lively incidents.
Our immediate purpose is with the sculptor for whose name Mr. Foote has found a place in his play.
Good Friend, quoth he: Say the firme Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an Oyster: at whose foote To mend the petty present, I will peece Her opulent Throne, with Kingdomes.
Out you rogue, you plucke my foote awrie, Take that, and mend the plucking of the other.
The seruice of the foote Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what before it was Bru.
Now heare me speake with a propheticke spirit: For euen the breath of what I meane to speake, Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub Out of the path which shall directly lead Thy foote to Englands Throne.
The king hath dispossest himselfe of vs, We will not lyne his thin-bestained cloake With our pure Honors: nor attend the foote That leaues the print of blood where ere it walkes.
Fellowes hold y Chaire, Vpon these eyes of thine, Ile set my foote Glou.
For Andrew, if he were open'd and you finde so much blood in his Liuer, as will clog the foote of a flea, Ile eate the rest of th' anatomy Fab.
An intemperate duke asked Footehow he should go to a masquerade.
Foote used to say that the Irish take us in and the Scots turn us out.
They put a bone within their hose, which reacheth from the foote to the knee, whereupon they draw the said hose, and so in place of garters they are holden from falling downe about their feete.
Also grasse being cut downe, will grow vp in sixe dayes aboue one foote high.
The wind was very great at sea, so that we lay a hull all night, and had snow halfe a foote deepe on the hatches.
Beasts of sundry kindes, red deare, buffles or a beast, as it seemeth by the tract and foote very large in maner of an oxe.
I went to the top of the Island, and before I came backe, it was hied a foote water, and so without tarrying I came aboord.
Foote pulled out all the stops in the organ of political rhetoric and went in for a chant royal of righteous indignation.
Thompson was born in North Carolina; Quitman in New York; Foote in Virginia; Walker in Pennsylvania; Prentiss in Maine; Davis in Kentucky.
For some reason that has never been divulged Foote determined to counterbalance Blair's visit to Richmond by a visit of his own to Washington.
With this fiasco Footepasses from the stage of history.
Maria Foote at this time was one of the most popular actresses in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
