Quotes About Foemen

Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foemen worthy of their steel.

Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.

Foemen at morn, but friends at eve— Fame or country least their care: (What like a bullet can undeceive!)

He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the Conriyan encampment and counted fires like an idiot child. "Always number your foemen," his father had once told him, "by the glitter of their fires." Sometimes he gazed at the stars and wondered if they too were his enemies.