| 1. | Soon shall the winter's foil be her. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | However, it must be acknowledged, she had faults to foil her gifts. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | Esteem as foil wherein thou art to se. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | And make him naked foil a man-at-arms. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | And put it to the foil but you, O you. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | One sudden foil shall never breed distrus. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Than that which hath no foil to set it off. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | That did but lately foil the sinewy Charle. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Warr hath determin'd us, and foild with los. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | Our foile in Heav'n here thou shalt Monarch reign. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 12. | Attendants with foils and gauntlets. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | No way excuse his foils when we do bea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 14. | Will not peruse the foils so that with ease. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Lords, Osric, and Attendants with foils c. - from Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | If there are any other types taking part please observe that they are secondary to the acrobats--they catch the handkerchiefs or otherwise act as foils for the real performers. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 17. | I embrace it freely And will this brother's wager frankly play.-- Give us the foils come on. - from Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| 18. | 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. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |