"I think there's been
foul play," said Poole, hoarsely.
I told her that I suspected
foul play, that I followed you both and found her father left to the tender mercies of the savages, deserted by you in the bush.
'
Foul Play,' 'Put Yourself in His Place'--how much they all meant once, or seemed to mean!
Stories of
foul play and successive murders had always been rife, but never were authenticated.
No, there was no more
foul play that I know of; and if there was, I don't care.
Barnabas Shuttleworthy -- one of the wealthiest and most respectable citizens of the borough -- had been missing for several days under circumstances which gave rise to suspicion of
foul play. Mr.
Though she spoke guardedly, her next words revealed suspicions of
foul play lurking in her mind--exactly reflecting similar suspicions lurking in Crayford's mind--which so distressed the lieutenant, and so surprised his comrades, as to render them quite incapable of answering her.
"Yes, time is an advantage if--if--there has been
foul play."
Foul play, sir!" he continued, dropping his voice confidentially.
Had you suspicions?" I says, "Gaffer, I had; and what's more, I have." He falls a shaking, and he says, "Of what?" I says, "Of
foul play." He falls a shaking worse, and he says, "There WAS
foul play then.
There was nothing in the handwriting, there was no expression in any part of the letter which could suggest to her mind the faintest suspicion of
foul play. Not the shadow of a doubt occurred to her that the summons to her brother's bedside was genuine.
Don Quixote, however, seeing such a swarm of Moors and hearing such a din, thought it would be right to aid the fugitives, and standing up he exclaimed in a loud voice, "Never, while I live, will I permit
foul play to be practised in my presence on such a famous knight and fearless lover as Don Gaiferos.