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Sentences ending with feet

There I saw your sister's feet. [10]
She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet. [11]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
I will ask you all to pass one by one in front of me--here, where there is a good light--so that I can see your feet. [5]
It is a work of art, the art of the arms and feet. [10]
She was a wonderfully comely lass, despite her loose cotton gown and poke-bonnet and the shoepacks on her feet. [9]
She was a woman of a friendly, homely aspect; several little dogs were fawning at her feet. [10]
Publius was seized with a cold shudder--like a wanderer who carelessly pursues his way gazing up at the moon and stars, and suddenly perceives an abyss yawning; at his feet. [10]
Fear lent him wings, but neglected to lift his feet. [9]

Short sentences using feet

Your feet are twitching, Dorippe. [10]
Both rose to their feet. [11]
I got to my feet. [9]
It's twenty-eight feet long. [5]
He got to his feet. [9]
Macavoy got to his feet. [11]
He trembled to his feet. [11]
He staggered to his feet. [11]
He got to his feet. [11]
Detricand sprang to his feet. [11]

Sentences containing feet two or more times

Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
The dwelling has two rooms--each forty-five feet long and sixteen feet wide, let us guess. [5]
He was about to spring with winged feet, when a man cleared his throat not four feet from him! [5]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
He was intended to be nineteen feet high, no doubt, if his foot was made first, but he didn't get there; he was only five feet ten. [5]
We have seen Tintoretto's monster picture, which is seventy-four feet long and I do not know how many feet high, and thought it a very commodious picture. [5]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
As soon as they let go, he placed all his feet in a bunch together, lowered his back, and then suddenly arched it upward, and shot me straight into the air a matter of three or four feet! [5]

More example sentences with the word feet in them

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
P. S.--I wish you would measure one of the largest of those swords we took to Alton and write me the length of it, from tip of the point to tip of the hilt, in feet and inches. [7]
My love for you inspired me in all that I have done, and, now that I come to lay the result of my labors at your feet, you turn from me, and offer my reward to a stranger. [6]
Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
By these feet Xanthe quickly recognized the sleeping youth. [10]
Tom and I would have preferred to sleep in the woods near by, with our feet to the blaze; this was partly from motives of economy, and partly because Tom, in common with other pioneers, held an inn in contempt. [9]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
There was a worthless vine that (or who) started up about midway between a grape-trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet from each, but a little nearer the trellis. [4]
Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter. [12]
The calculating mind wonders how many million feet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea. [4]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
At length, having won back nearly all he had lost, he rose to his feet and looked round. [11]
It was a woman, between forty and fifty years of age, who rose slowly to her feet as the Avocat entered, and, without preliminary, put into his hands a document. [11]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
He came up within about ten or fifteen feet of Reeder, and called out to those with him to "look out! [5]
The brave was within a few feet of them. [11]
Tom sat down within a few feet of her. [9]
To repay them with treachery and desertion was foreign to his nature and, drawing a long breath, he sprang to his feet with the conviction that he had chosen aright. [10]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors. [5]
Eight feet,--eight feet, with the cornice. [6]
He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
His feet light with moccasins, he even ran a distance, enjoying the glow from a fast-beating pulse. [11]
Only Pierre sat with masterful stillness, his eyes never moving from the face of the player; his arms folded; his feet firmly wedded to the floor. [11]
Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
They passed who with Homer Poured out the wine at the feet of their idols: Passing, what found they? [11]
Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. [2]
Beside my couch, with his hands on his hips and his feet thrust out, stood Gabord, looking down at me in a quizzical and unsatisfied way. [11]
Aunt Kate sat with her feet on a hassock, rocking gently and watching and listening. [11]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
Presently, as if with an effort, he rose to his feet, took the red fez from his head, and fanned himself with it for a moment. [11]
Look at this wine, how pure it is, how fragrant; and yet it was trodden from the grape by the brawny feet of the vintagers. [10]
It was no will of mine brought me to my feet. [9]
A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough? [11]
It was Ned who had met his master, the Colonel, at the levee, and had fallen sobbing at his feet. [9]
Little grey man who comes Over the water, I have knelt down at her feet, Knelt at your Gabrielle's feet---ci ci! [11]
A group of white fan-tailed pigeons had lighted on the green plot before it and clustered about one of their companions who lay on his back, fluttering in a strange way, with outspread wings and twitching feet. [6]
The angry borzois whined and getting free of the leash rushed past the horses' feet at the wolf. [2]
Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
The first story, which is still standing, in the midst of a heap of ruins, is 260 feet high. [10]
The cushions among which he sat had come from Constantinople, the rug at his feet from Tiflis, the prayer-rug on the wall from Mecca. [11]
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
But at last, when the drama had risen to the pitch of unbearable suspense, he looked down upon the two miserable pyramids at his feet, and touched them. [9]
I knew him when he was eleven feet high and of a faultless figure. [5]
And at last when Brady's feet came clattering down the stairs the sacrilege seemed unbearable. [5]
Her feet were wet as she ploughed through the trampled snow, but she gave no thought to that. [9]
For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard. [9]
Their naked feet were torn, and none walked without a limp. [5]
Scores of men were springing to their feet. [11]
Her little feet were shod with handsome gold sandals set with sapphires, and she seated herself on a low bench with a satisfied smile, as though to assist at a theatrical performance. [10]
The bed- posts were sawed off on top, as the ceiling was not more than four feet from the improvised floor. [5]
A dozen members were on their feet shouting to the chair. [9]
Kitty and Mona were on their feet at once. [11]
The room we were in was at least four feet higher than the other, and we looked down on its occupants. [11]
Now if you were five or six feet high, and--" "Oh, come! [5]
Although the pedestrians were but twenty feet away, what Mr. Worthington said never reached them; but the Honorable Heth on public days carried his voice of the Forum around with him. [9]
The baker's men were at work in the open court of the bakehouse, kneading bread--the coarser kind of dough with the feet, the finer with the hands. [10]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
On Saturday I went to hear and see Rachel; a wonderful sight--terrible as if the earth had cracked deep at your feet, and revealed a glimpse of hell. [14]
But as they went on he felt that she hung heavy on his arm and could only lift her little feet with the greatest difficulty. [10]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
His tireless feet went clac-clac past her doorway, or halted by it, or entered in when it pleased him. [11]
His feet were well shod, his coat worn, and he had still the look that belongs to the well-to-do peasant. [11]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
She is a wee little creature, but she builds a strong and enduring house eight feet high--a house which is as large in proportion to her size as is the largest capitol or cathedral in the world compared to man's size. [5]
In a moment we were on our feet, and dashing away toward the sound. [11]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, which were fifteen feet thick at the base. [5]
Ten minutes afterwards we stood beside the flag-staff, and at our feet lay a moaning, mangled figure. [11]
In the morning we rode a mile and a half through the woods and followed up a small stream to see the celebrated pools, one of which the Judge said was two hundred feet deep, and another bottomless. [4]
As soon as we lost the sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables. [5]
My Dear Hessie, we have been two days on Mont Blanc, in the midst of a terrible hurricane of snow, we have lost our way, and are in a hole scooped in the snow, at an altitude of 15,000 feet. [5]
Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. [5]
Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"--only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt. [5]
When they camped, we camped right over them, ten or twelve hundred feet up in the air. [5]
Now and then we came upon holes burrowed a few feet into the declivities and apparently abandoned; and now and then we found one or two listless men still burrowing. [5]
In due time we arrived at the "mine"--nothing but a hole in the ground ninety feet deep, and no way of getting down into it but by holding on to a rope and being lowered with a windlass. [5]
There is no way of heating the German cars, except by tubes filled with hot water, which are placed under the feet, and are called foot-warmers. [4]
She heard the water murmur at her feet and flow on to the sea; she heard the rushing of all the waters in the world. [13]
This time the watch came within twenty feet of him, saluted and retired. [11]
Where the light was two men had started to their feet when the crash came. [11]
Felix Marchand's face was twisted with hate as he got slowly to his feet. [11]
I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. [5]
Fortunately the sedan-chair was there, for she felt that her feet would scarcely carry her back. [10]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
At last I was startled to my feet by the opening of the door, and Madame de Montmery came in. [9]
Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered. [4]
To do either was plainly the labor of months; for we could blast and bore only a few feet a day--some five or six. [5]
After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]

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