To know nothing of the pleasant paths beneath the spreading branches of old primeval trees; no soft grass for their little feet to press; never to wander along the streams or the little brooks; to be strangers always to the beautiful things spread out everywhere in the country in the summer time.

Suddenly she heard the swift patter of bare feet.

Only so many square feet of earth, and now there are more to walk upon them!

In common dwelling-houses, under favorable circumstances, each sleeper is usually allowed from 500 to 1,000 cubic feet of space: a chamber fifteen or sixteen feet square and eight feet high, with 1,800 to 2,048 feet of air, is considered a good lodging-room for two persons.

The Colonel discovered that the same thing had befallen the toes of his left foot.

If it be an animal with hairy feet, the sign is good; but if with naked feet, some fowl, for instance, there will be mourning in the house; it is a sign of misery and bad success in all their undertakings.

"Here," he said, and put both little moccasined feet into one of the capacious mittens.

Height without clumsiness, bulk and a light foot at once, a fine head, well poised, blond hair and a Grecian profilesuch was Jack Landis.

" The Boy looked down at his weary, wounded feet.

I could not see this Devil's cloven Foot; Nor am I such a Coxcomb to believe, But he was as substantial as his Gold.

Has she flat feet, hammer-toe, or any other defect? 9.

Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, Till genial Jacob or a warm third day Call forth each mass, a poem or a play: How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie; How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry; Maggots, half formed, in rhyme exactly meet, And learn to crawl upon poetic feet.

There are three toes on the hind foot having similar proportions to those on the fore foot.

It was woefully thin, and seemed, even to his inexperience, to be insufficiently clothed, though the beaded moccasins on its tiny feet were new and good.

After scratching his ear with one of his hind feet, and his side with the other, he turned and walked deliberately from our sight into the forest.

But, just as the tender foot of Eurydice was pierced by the concealed viper, so meseemed that a hidden serpent came upon me, as I lay stretched on the grass, and pierced me under the left breast.

He was well favored in looks and build, though somewhat effeminate, with his small hands and carefully shod feet.

At the cost of wet feet I rescued it.

She had as many rings on her fingers as the old woman of Banbury Cross; and pretty, small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white slippers with red heels; and an odour of musk was shaken out of her garments whenever she moved or quitted the room, leaning on her tortoise-shell stick, little Fury, the dog, barking at her heels, and Mrs. Tusher, the parson's wife, by her side.

Racehorses are nothing to his swift feet: Rebellious Parthians he did defeat; Swift after the Persians his light shafts go: For he well knew how to fit arrow to bow, Swiftly the striped barbarians fled: With one little wound he shot them dead.

She washed Mary's tired feet in warm water.

They were reasonable fellows as men go, with a respect for each other, but when hardship has got on the nerves, when you are suffering the agonies of snow-blindness, sore feet, and the pangs of hunger, you are not, to put it mildly, at your best as a member of the social order.

For instance, they call the fox hallkuhl (grey coat) the bear, layjatyk (broad-foot), etc. etc.

A moment later she was rubbing the lotion upon the poor creature's swollen feet, paying no attention to Martha's horrified protests.

So saying, he advanced upon the scowling three, his eyes a-dance, his nimble feet light-poised for swift actionfor lusty rogues were these, who, seeing him alone, forthwith met him point and edge, besetting him with many swashing blows, that, whistling, did but cleave the empty air or rang loud upon his swift-opposing blade.