These are barely practicable for animals; a pass in these regions meaning simply any notch or cañon through which one may, by the exercise of unlimited patience, make out to lead a mule, or a sure-footed mustang; animals that can slide or jump as well as walk.

She bore some eight or nine letters in one hand, and fanned herself with them in a leisurely flat-footed progress to the mailbox at the lower corner.

But in the end she turned, slow-footed amid the gathering shadows and followed whither they called.

Yet the broad window, scarcely six feet from the ground, stood wide open to admit the air.

Joe knew that he was plunging into the wilderness of the enemy's country, but his sense of both property and pride had been offended, and he took up the pursuit hot-footed.

So saying, they all stepped out once more, with the right foot foremost, as the saying is.

A rope made of strips of banana tied together, and upwards of a thousand feet in length, is extended along the ground, one end of which is attached to a coconut shell, full of water, which is suspended immediately over the sleeping-place of the hunter.

'Fourscore feet deep in the north well,''fourscore feet deep in the well to north''fourscore feet north of the deep well,'so the words went round and round in my head, till I was tired and giddy, and fell unawares asleep.

So Walkyn, obeying, turned and plunged into the green, while Beltane followed after, slow and heavy-footed.

And round about the linden-tree, They footed it right merrily.

" Maud made a pretty picture as she sat with one shapely foot on the fender of the stove, the firelight dancing on her face and hair.

After a continuous journey of upwards of eighteen weeks we reached Grasshopper creek near the head of the Missouri on the 23d day of October, with our supply of provisions nearly exhausted, and with cattle sore-footed and too much worn out to continue the journey.

The middle part is occupied by the Paguradae, {105a} and the Psittopodes, {105b} a warlike nation, and remarkably swift-footed.

For a quarter of an hour she pressed my body from head to foot vigorously, and it certainly produced a good effectI found myself much relieved and strengthened.

Next, footing slow, comes the tutelary deity of Alma Mater, and in one sad cry mourns the promise of a life so soon cut short.

A whole tribe of broad-footed white beggars had rushed hither to make claims on those wild lands.

I've danced till my feet ache!

I was sitting there with my feet outside, smoking a quiet pipe, when I 'eard a bit of a noise in the distance.

He "yearned over the skyline, where the strange roads go down," though he put it more sharply to Sam Pickering one late afternoon: "Well, Sam, I feel itchy-footed.

The corrected folio gives its authority to the lines of the song, "Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear," which stands so in Hanmer, and, indeed is the usually received arrangement of the song.

Oliver checked in, left his bag in his room, and came out feeling light-footed.

He was hastily buried under barely a foot of earth, and his six companions were left on the spot through the night expecting the same fate, till the morning, when they were released.

The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile.

Lord! 'twould make anybody love him, to see how finely he'll foot it.

It became a duel of endurance between Captain Jack, wiry, toughened and fully matured, with heavier muscles, and the nimble, lighter-footed Gold Dust mare.