103 Metaphors for feet

And Jesus Sirach has said (according to the improved translation by Kraus), "A woman that is well grown and has beautiful feet is like pillars of gold in sockets of silver."

But Cold Feet was his riding companion, and this was a stranger.

Fact is, I didn't know Cold Feet was a girl till this evening.

THE FEET should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together.

But Good Feet are distinctly the first thing.

Cold Feet was a futile, weak-handed little coward.

These beasts are all clodhoppers, and their feet are hobnailed boots.

A few feet removed from this table, and against the wall, was a camphorwood chest on which two might sit in comfort and three might squeeze at angles.

Can a single foot be a line?

His feet, too, are a singular formation, differing very materially from those of the horse.

too long hast thou been gone to-day, My feet are weary of their frequent way, The spell that opes the spring my tongue no more can say.

Poor Richard's Almanack gives it twice, as "the foot of a master is the best manure" and "the eye of a master will do more work than both his hands."

The following is his yelp when his foot is trod upon.

I fear that the feet of Mr. Norgate will be nimbler than my brain to-night.

He was kneeling behind a little ridge of sandstone; about a foot below its edge was an orifice made by the rains and winds of bygone centuries; through this, as through an embrasure, he had thrust his rifle.

Twenty feet on the other side was a sheer fall of a hundred feet, and the way ahead was closed with the exception of a trail scarcely wider than Thor's body by a huge crag of rock that had fallen from the shoulder of the mountain.

To the antiquary, the poet, and the philosopher, every foot is hallowed ground; and even the cold calculations of the commercial speculator treat with regard a county whose manufactures add to the stock of national wealth and importance.

It is stated, for instance, in Walker's "Manly Exercises," that six feet is the maximum of a high leap, with a run,and certainly one never finds in the newspapers a record of anything higher; yet it is the English tradition, that Ireland, of Yorkshire, could clear a string raised fourteen feet, and that he once kicked a bladder at sixteen.

His feet were not two paces from the poised head of the snake.

He would just think he was day-dreaming, and that the little girl with the soft eyes, the ash-colored pigtails, and the quick feet was just a piece of his day-dream.

Her coat and skirt were quite presentable; but her feet were large (not her fault, of course, though one is apt to treat large feet as a crime), and her feathered hat was even larger.

But they are orphaned: their poor childish feet Are vagabond in spite of love, and stray Forgetful after little lures.

The trees turned grass; the clouds were riven; His feet were mountains lost in heaven; Through strange new skies he rose alone, The earth fell from him like a stone, And his own limbs beneath him far Seemed tapering down to touch a star.

"And what's yer raison for acting in that shtyle, to as good a man as iver asked God's blessing on a sunny morning, and who wouldn't tread on one of yer corns, that is, if yer big feet isn't all corns, like a toad's back, as I suspict, from the manner in which ye leaps over the ground.

Come close, Mademoiselle, your feet are doubtless damp.

103 Metaphors for  feet