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Sentences ending with foothold

She did inevitably recall the last time she had seen him, in the little Western city, and how he had overwhelmed her, invaded her with doubts and aroused the spirit which had possessed her to fight fiercely for its foothold. [9]
We next addressed ourselves to the Cone, which is a loose hill of ashes and sand,--a natural slope, I should say, of about one and a half to one, offering no foothold. [4]
For twenty-five cents one can send a dispatch to any part of the Dominion, except the region where the Western Union has still a foothold. [4]
That he had loved her, at any rate that evening under the trees, she obstinately maintained in her own mind; to that conviction she must cling desperately, or lose her last foothold. [10]
In speaking of it he used the vulgar term "splurge," a word especially offensive to the refined society in which the Mavicks had gained a foothold. [4]
The Brownists, the Anabaptists, the Papists, the Puritans, the Separatists, and "such factious Humorists," were taking possession of the land that Smith claimed to have "discovered," and in which he had no foothold. [4]
It gave her a foothold. [11]

More example sentences with the word foothold in them

But he says we have no foothold as yet. [9]
When at last we came to a badly ruptured bit of masonry, with hoof-prints evidencing a desperate struggle to regain the lost foothold, I looked quite hopefully over the dizzy precipice. [5]
For a distance there was shelving where foothold might be had by a fearless man with a steady head and sure balance. [11]
Tom got to the ladder and shinned up it a piece and waited for me; and as soon as I got a foothold on it he shouted to Jim to soar away. [5]
Thereafter, amid all the clouds of falsehood and ridicule which we had to encounter, there was one lighthouse fixed on a rock to which we could go for foothold, from which we could not be driven, and against which all assaults were impotent. [6]
So it is that woman continues to reign, where she has once got a foothold, long after her dear frame has become dust. [4]
The fishery would support a colony until it had obtained a good foothold, and control of these fisheries would bring more profit to England than any other occupation. [4]
She was that saddest of human beings, a victim of dual forces which so fought for mastery with each other that, while the struggle went on, the soul had no firm foothold anywhere. [11]
It is a pity to destroy any pleasing story of the past, and especially to discharge our hard struggle for a foothold on this continent of the few elements of romance. [4]
We go running on as happy as can be, like Biribi there in the garden, and all at once we stop short at a hedge, just as he does there--a hedge just too tall to look over and with no foothold for climbing. [11]
And at this moment I discovered that the bridge had ceased, and we must trust for a foothold to the slippery and precipitous rocks. [5]
I do not mean to give you an account of my struggles that winter to obtain a foothold in the law. [9]
There was no longer the material, distant note of a pagan mind; there was the intimate, spiritual note of a mind finding a foothold on the submerged causeway of life and time. [11]
It's a foothold in the world, but it's no more; it's not afield to walk in, why, it's not even a garden. [11]
Well, Mr. Mavick, I was pretty presumptuous, for I had no foothold in the city, except a law clerkship. [4]
During that week I got as far as the Sixth Comptroller in that division; the next week I got through the Claims Department; the third week I began and completed the Mislaid Contracts Department, and got a foothold in the Dead Reckoning Department. [5]
It is doubtful how far cases of this kind will be trusted to its tender mercies, but wherever it acquires any considerable foothold, such cases must come, and with them the ruin of those who practise it, should any highly valued life be thus sacrificed. [3]
Whether he suspected his project or not Dick did not feel sure; but it was something to have got a foothold in the house, and to have overcome any prepossession against him which his uncle might have entertained. [6]
Once or twice he swung quite clear of the wall, hanging by his fingers to catch a surer foothold to right or left, and just getting it sometimes by an inch or less. [11]
Herminius the unspeakable has given the enemy a foothold in Rome. [9]
And yet he had shown a quality, a facility, a promise, that had gained him a foothold and a support in the world of books and of the making of books. [4]
Generations of fishermen had looked upon the yellowish-red limestone of the Perce Rock with a valorous eye, but it would seem that not even the tiny clinging hoof of a chamois or wild goat might find a foothold upon the straight sides of it. [11]
It was hard for these people to believe that any man of mortal mould could find a foothold in that impregnable fortress,--could climb to that height and find the flower of love among its glaciers. [6]
Even this little foothold was not easily gained in a day, as the historian discovered in reading some bundles of old letters which Philip wrote in this time of his novitiate to Celia and to his cousin Alice. [4]
She had no choice between her present precarious foothold and the abyss, and wounded as she was she would have to fight. [9]
The broken-down, defeated bankrupt is no novelty in Wall Street, the man struggling to keep his foothold in the business of the Street, and descending lower and lower in the scale. [4]

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