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Foemen

Foeman \Foe"man\ (f[=o]"man), n.; pl. Foemen (-men). [AS. f[=a]hman.] An enemy in war.

And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
--Sir W. Scott

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foemen

n. (plural of foeman English)

Usage examples of "foemen".

The charge faltered and dissipated as the foemen broke ranks and fled before the onslaught.

The feet of the foemen struck the trackways, and our hidden glen was invaded.

Two sharp raps of the spear butt and both helmets flew off as heads snapped backwards, and the foemen toppled like statues.

Rather than face her fearful wrath, the foemen fell back and the advance collapsed.

Scores of exhausted foemen swayed on their feet, unable to lift their weapons any more.

We looked up through the shining veil of smoke and flame and saw a knot of foemen clustered about the skull-and-bones standard of the Bretwalda.

The Britons pursued the fleeing foemen into the darksome tracks and game runs of Celyddon.

Its chief advantage to the foemen lay in its size and the strong walls of its two old fortresses: they were enormous, large enough to hold the thirty thousand assembled there.

The low place Arthur saw was a section that had been hastily repaired and some of the stone had fallen in when the first foemen swarmed over.

Thus, when next the two forces met, the Irish would hold themselves superior no matter how many foemen faced them across the line.

The foemen give way before me, stumbling in their haste to save themselves.

The foemen swarmed us and it was either break off the attack or be dragged down.

Bedwyr seemed to understand what was happening and attempted a counterattack, driving into the wall of foemen, thrusting, forcing, hacking his way forward by the strength of his blade alone.