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Foy   Listen
noun
Foy  n.  
1.
Faith; allegiance; fealty. (Obs.)
2.
A feast given by one about to leave a place. (Obs.) "He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day."






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"Foy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wilkinson had tilled his lands: and I am by no means sure that his influence on the stronger minds of his time was anywise hastened or extended by the spirit of tunefulness under whose guidance he discovered that heaven rymed to seven, and Foy to boy. ...
— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... muslin dress, and the guitar trimmed with a fringe of narrow pink ribbons. She was a dream, Margery! But she does n't sit there with her young men when I am at school, nor when I am helping Ah Foy in the dining-room, nor, of course, when we are at table. She sits there from four to six in the afternoon and in the evening, the only times I have with mamma in this room. We are obliged to keep the window closed, lest we should ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... Pomponius Sabinus, and in his notes to Columella, Julius Pomponius Fortunatus, his object in both instances being that he should be mistaken for some Roman who had flourished in the purest ages of Latinity; and Foy-Vaillant, the celebrated numismatist of the seventeenth century, actually places him, in one of his numismatical works, in the list of ancient authors, while Justus Lipsius and Pithaeus both took him to have been a "Grammaticus", ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross

... later from the Cafe de Foy, Camille Desmoulins is in his glory. See him rushing out, sibylline in face; his hair streaming, in each hand a pistol! He springs to a table: the police satellites are eyeing him; alive they shall not take him; not ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon

... broke through the gorge, and five times the fire of the French infantry on the slopes above them, and the grape of the great battery at the head of the gorge, drove the shattered regiments back. On Soult's right, again, Foy flung back with loss an attack by part of Picton's forces. On both the right and left, that is, Soult was victorious, and, as he saw the wasted British lines roll sullenly back, it is said that the French general ...
— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett

... Foster (6) Nathaniel Foster Nicholas Foster William Foster Ephraim Fostman John Fouber Francis Foubert William Foulyer Edward Fousler Pruden Fouvnary Gideon Fowler James Fowler (2) John Fowler (2) Joseph Fowler Michael Fowler John Butler Foy William Foy Jared Foyer Ebenezer Fox William Fox (3) Jacob Frailey (2) Fortain Frances John Frances Joseph Frances Scobud Frances John Francis Thomas Francis (2) William Francis Manuel Francisco Jean Franco Jean Francois Anthony Frankie Pernell Franklin Christopher Franks Michael Franks ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge



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