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Sentences starting with foot

Foot by foot the man climbed on, no less cautious because the ascent was easier, for he was now weaker. [11]
Foot by foot she was being driven towards the rocks. [11]
Foot by foot she rolled it over. [11]
Foot by foot he went up. [13]

Sentences ending with foot

How is it you are on foot? [2]
You has had yo' chance, en you has trompled it under yo' foot. [5]
She had quite won the old merchant's heart, and the enquiries for her father which he had set on foot. [10]
The chiefs argued with her, and at last persuaded her to go home and prepare for the great work by taking proper rest, and also by having a leech look to a wound which she had received in her foot. [5]
Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the government on foot. [7]
Since these fens were drained one might travel from Market Deeping to the Wolds without wetting a foot. [11]
From St. Nicholas we struck out for Visp--or Vispach--on foot. [5]
Ropedancing, of course, was over forever, as she had lost a foot. [10]
Those that are unanimous will please to signify by holding up their left foot! [6]
This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]

Short sentences using foot

Uncle Ani comes on foot. [10]
Your foot defiles my house. [10]
We were on foot. [5]
Tread him under foot. [12]
Twenty dollars a foot! [5]
We travel on foot! [11]
They shan't put foot here. [11]
It bent outward a foot! [5]

Sentences containing foot two or more times

People who grow up together and meet every day, morning, noon, and night, get used to each other as the foot does to the sandal, and the sandal to the foot, but the heart remains untouched. [10]
If you only saw his foot, you'd take him to be nineteen feet high, but he wasn't; it was because his foot was out of drawing. [5]
But the wave rose up maliciously, foot by foot, till it drowned their cries for ever in the storm. [11]
Gangs relieved each other, and the tunnel was every hour, inch by inch and foot by foot, crawling into the mountain. [5]
I gave to him foot by foot, for he was uncommon swift and dexterous. [11]
The Dutch captain here put his foot into the conversation, as his ancestors used to put theirs into the scale, when they were buying furs of the Indians by weight,--so much for the weight of a hand, so much for the weight of a foot. [6]
Venters warmed to greater admiration of the sorrel; and, giving him a loose bridle, he stepped down foot by foot. [13]
It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches--a solid, level floor. [5]
Slowly, slowly up, foot by foot, yard by yard, until one-third of the distance was climbed. [11]
Inch by inch, foot by foot, Parpon, with the lifeless Julie clamped in one arm, climbed the rough wall, on, on, up to the Rock of Red Pigeons. [11]

More example sentences with the word foot in them

Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
You cannot imagine!--Does your foot hurt you very much, poor dear? [10]
Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
But Lord bless you, a man enjoys every foot of it. [5]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
I do believe you have come on foot in the burning sun. [10]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
Aye, I've watched ye, since the day ye first set foot in this church. [9]
Out of her wrongs and miseries now she made a path for her future, and in that path Philip's foot should never be set. [11]
One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
Our party, who would have been much surprised if any one had called them an excursion, went away on foot down the carriage road to the Glen House. [4]
Trees won't grow worth chucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. [5]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't. [5]
The gentlemen were wont to dine at the Coffee House, and I would sit near the foot of the table, taking notes of their plans. [9]
Perhaps the occupants wondered to see her on foot and alone. [4]
The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
He took post with Judge Short at the foot of the stair, where, in spite of the protests of the Celebrity and of other well-disposed persons, the two favored the parting guests with an occasional impromptu song and waved genial good-byes to the ladies. [9]
He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
Paaker shoved him with his foot and called to him as he awoke-- "I am hungry. [10]
These she gave with an instant decision which was part of her equipment, and then, when the butler had gone, she left the house on foot to take a cab at the corner of Piccadilly. [11]
Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
Never would I wish him to set foot in it. [4]
It would be wiser to meet the prince at the foot of the steps. [10]
By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
I don't know why scoffers make so light of these partings--at the foot of the main stairs of the hotel gallery, just as Mrs. Farquhar was descending. [4]
Monsters enough, on whom you cannot set your foot, throng your path. [10]
But her mother, who was born a countess--if the shoe doesn't make a foot small which Nature created big, there's such an outcry! [10]
Unhappy are they who seek for gold at the rainbow's foot, who chase the fire-fly in the night, who follow the herds in the White Valley. [11]
There was a whiteness growing round the eyes, and eating up the warmth of the cheek; his admirably smooth brow was contracted into heavy wrinkles, and a foot shifted uneasily on the floor with a scraping sole. [11]
They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats. [5]
True, the cough which had tormented her all winter attacked her in the shady cloister, but she had learned to use her wooden foot, and with a cane in one hand and her little bundle in the other she moved sturdily on. [10]
To be sure when you came home from the procession yesterday you only asked me how my foot was and whether my clothes were whole and then not another mortal word did you utter. [10]
Well, one day when the shaft was down about eight foot, the rock got so hard that we had to put in a blast--the first blast'n' we'd ever done since Tom Quartz was born. [5]
At the instant when the case was most critical the tailor of Chaudiere set his foot inside the Notary's door. [11]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
Do you know what our crop is going to foot up? [5]
At first they were very favourable; then came the news of the treason, and soon after of the desertion of the cavalry and foot soldiers. [10]
The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
He--or preferably they --were asked to occupy the seat of honor at the foot of the table. [5]
And during the week that followed he lacked the moral courage either to discuss the subject of Quicksands thoroughly or to let it alone: to put down his foot like a Turk or accede like a Crichton. [9]
Twenty dollars, Madam--and we wouldn't part with a foot of our 75 for five times the sum. [5]
In an instant we were down on our knees on the hard dirt floor, and there was a man's foot in a moccasin! [9]
Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
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]
This granite couch we covered with the dry and springy moss, which we stripped off in heavy fleeces a foot thick from the bowlders. [4]
At nine o'clock we are in Innsbruck, at the foot of the Brenner. [4]
Baby-carriages cumbered the way; dogs were under foot, yelping and rending the tender hearts of their owners; the porters staggered about under their loads, and shouted till they were hoarse; farewells were said; rendezvous made--alas! [4]
These stayed to watch the "mad Inglesi," as a foreigner called him, knocking his head against the foot stool of an unresponsive god of chance. [11]
But, as it was, he cut the face off the work with a knife, and deliberately trod the pieces under foot as they lay on the ground. [10]
And, supposing he was to go in the coach, I put foot in the stirrup. [9]
Our favourite spring was the Schaalbach at the foot of the Steiger,--[We pupils bought it of the peasant who owned it and gave it to Barop. [10]
He thought it was summer, and he was playing, all alone, in the fair meadow called Goodman's Fields, when a dwarf only a foot high, with long red whiskers and a humped back, appeared to him suddenly and said, "Dig by that stump. [5]
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning. [6]
Just as I was passing a place where a kind of a cowpath crossed the crick, here comes a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it. [5]
You see, America was occupied a billion years and more, by Injuns and Aztecs, and that sort of folks, before a white man ever set his foot in it. [5]
Yet the blow was not unkindly meant, for even while he drew back she voluntarily clasped both his hands, scrutinized him intently from head to foot, and said calmly: "Welcome to the old home, Sir Knight! [10]
The Persian foot was not much more numerous than the Egyptian, but they had six times the number of horse-soldiers. [10]
I knowed he was lame in his off hind leg because he had favored that foot and trod light on it, and his track showed it. [5]
Only one foot was firm on the ground; the other-with its thin sandal all torn by the sharp stones--was stretched out over the abyss, ready for the next fatal step. [10]
If a rescuer was even within one foot of Jean Jacques, the deed could still be done. [11]
One long foot was crossed over the other and rested on the point of the toe, and his head was tilted to one side. [9]
Presently, however, I was aroused by voices at the foot of the rock, and peering over the edge I discovered a kind of sewing-circle gathered there. [9]
Once when she was a little creature of three or four years she suddenly brought her tiny foot down upon the floor in an apparent outbreak of indignation, then fetched it a backward wipe, and stooped down to examine the result. [5]
En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun', de tears come, en I could a got down on my knees en kiss yo' foot, I's so thankful. [5]
Drawing back, he waited until he heard the foot of Elise upon the stair. [11]
It was a violation of both law and the sacred obligations of honor, to overthrow and trample under foot a solemn compromise, obtained by the fearful loss to freedom of one of the fairest of our Western domains. [7]
On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, etc., is utterly inexplicable. [1]
This is all very well, but when he tries to kick a fly off the top of his head with his hind foot, it is too much variety. [5]
His feelings found vent even as he came to the foot of the platform where he was to make his last stand, and the guards formed a square about the great pillars, glooming like Druidic altars. [11]
He has held us spellbound upon the plain at the foot of the great Sphinx, and we have joined him in weeping bitter tears at the tomb of Adam. [5]
When you see us offering sacrifice at the foot of a marble image you must not suppose that the lifeless, perishable stone is the object of our adoration. [10]
She came upon us at the foot of the stairs, with her cordials in her hands, and made us come in and sit down and take the medicine. [5]
Others he called upon to lie in the hot spring at the foot of the hill for varying periods, before the laying on of hands, and these also, crippled, or rigid with troubles' of the bone, announced that they were healed. [11]
Injun Joe sat up, stared around--smiled grimly upon his comrade, whose head was drooping upon his knees--stirred him up with his foot and said: "Here! [5]
Lempriere drew himself up with a slashing attempt at composure, but ended by flaming from head to foot, his face shining like a cock's comb, the perspiration standing out like beads upon his forehead, his eyes gone blind with confusion. [11]
The meadow sloped up to a belt of balsams and firs, a steep rocky knob, and climbing that on foot we stood upon the summit of Mitchell at one o'clock. [4]
His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky. [5]
Berenice had picked up a sword that was lying on the ground and had opened a vein with the point of it; her body, bathed in blood, was found at the foot of the statue of justice. [10]
It was muddy under foot, but it was a country where the roads soon dried, and he would suffer little inconvenience from the storm. [11]
From this material, under cover of "liberty of speech," "liberty of the press," and "habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. [7]
Here she found Uarda bound hand and foot, and Kaschta lying on the ground in a heavy drunken slumber. [10]
I was about two hundred feet away from the bear when it turned slow round at me, lifting its foot from the body. [11]
A voice not twenty-five foot from me says: "Good lan'! [5]
It was about twenty foot off. [5]
Her face was turned towards the window, and the bird of paradise with the gold chain on its foot, was still there, perched on the cypress-tree. [10]
At length we turned into the avenue through the forest, lined by wild orange trees, came in sight of the low, belvedered plantation house, and drew rein at the foot of the steps. [9]
I suppose every turn in it, every tree that has a knoll at the foot where two persons can sit, has witnessed a tragedy, or, what is worse, a comedy. [4]
Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
He wished to traverse the province on foot and on horseback, and Sabina was to follow by boat as soon as the inundation should begin. [10]
Many a foot traveller hesitated to pass into that umbrageous circle, and skirted the fence beyond the branches on the further side of the road instead. [11]
His self-respect was trampled under foot, love and happiness were forfeited, there was naught before him save a colorless, charmless future, full of bitterness and mental anguish. [10]
This time you trample under foot the fair name of an honourable man. [10]
We came into town on foot. [5]
We came into town in the middle of the forenoon, and I went on foot from the station. [5]
The conductor turned towards Philip, and coolly and deliberately surveyed him from head to foot, with contempt in every line of his face, turned his back upon him without a word, and said to the lady, "Come, I've got no time to talk. [5]

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