And let me tell you I have nothing except contempt for a man who foists off his responsibilities upon a woman's shoulders.
"A Man's Hearth"
Eleanor M. Ingram
We might then shut up our Marlowes and our Beaumonts and resume our reading of the bard, and the witless foists would confer happiness on many, and crown themselves with truly immortal bays.
"Confessions of a Young Man"
George Moore
These observations, together with the fact that the egg of the cuckoo is occasionally found in the nests of other birds, raise the inquiry whether our bird is slowly relapsing into the habit of the European species, which always foists its egg upon other birds; or whether, on the other hand, it is not mending its manners in this respect.
"Locusts and Wild Honey"
John Burroughs