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Foray

noun

A sudden short attack. Synonyms: maraud, raid.

An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence).

verb

Steal goods; take as spoils. Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip.

Briefly enter enemy territory.

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... fierce gust of rain upon a rank of palmetto leaves, filled the air above the glade, and Grom, looking up with a start, saw a great shoal of the radiant shapes storm by, as if with the rainbow entangled in their wings. He wondered upon what foray they were bent; and now for the first time he realized, with a creeping of the flesh, what it was that had overtaken the man whose skeleton he had found in the grass. The shoal swept out over the lake a ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

... Mrs. North," said I, "that a nation may be insane as well as an individual. But reason seems to be returning in some quarters. Secession and its consequences are having a wonderful effect to open the eyes of people. John Brown's foray and its end were a providential demonstration of certain errors, which we may conclude will not soon be revived. Secession is now leading the world to look more narrowly into the subject of negro slavery. Let me read to you these extracts from a recent number of 'Le ...

— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

... exclaimed Swearword the Saxon, wiping his mailed brow with his iron hand, "a fair morn withal! Methinks twert lithlier to rest me in yon glade than to foray me forth in yon ...

— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock

... that had been enacted by citizen guerrillas and butternut soldiers. Louisville was in a foment of excitement, and if the rebels had only possessed the dash, there was scarce a day but they could have made a foray upon the "Galt," and captured from forty to fifty nice-looking officers, from brigadier-generals down ...

— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett

... have some of the brown luscious mast, we make a foray amongst the gorging host, and succeeded in causing a cloud of them to take wing, and in securing ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various

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