Foster

( Captain ), on guard at Tully Veolan ruin.—Sir W. Scott, Waverley (time, George II.). Foster , the English champion.—Sir W. Scott, The Laird’s Jock (time, Elizabeth). Foster ( Anthony ) or “Tony-fire-the-Faggot,” agent of the earl of Leicester at Cumnor Place.—Sir W. Scott, Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth). Foster ( Sir John ), the English warden.—Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time Elizabeth). Foster ( Dr. James ), a di enting minister, who preached on Sunday evenings for above twenty years, from 1728-1748, in Old Jewry (died 1753). Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well. Pope. Foster ( Silas ), the bucolic master of the house that shelters the reformers of The Blithe dale Romance. He gulps his tea, helps himself to dip-toast with the flat of his own knife, and perpetrates terrible enormities with the butter-plate, “behaving le like a sensible Christian than the worst kind of an ogre.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithe dale Romance (1852).