Fosco (Count), the airy, witty, unconscionable villain of Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White. Gallant, audacious and fat.
Foss (Corporal), a disabled soldier, who served many years under Lieutenant Worthington, and remained his ordinary when the lieutenant retired from the service. Corporal Foss loved his master and Miss Emily, the lieutenant’s daughter, and he gloried in his profession. Though brusque in manner, he was tender-hearted as a child.—G. Colman, The Poor Gentleman (1812).
⁂ Corporal Foss is modelled from “Corporal Trim,” in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759).
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 dissenting 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.