A band of Danes keep the Isle of Sheppey through the winter; their first foothold in England.

He sat down, took off his snowshoes, strapped them to his back, and began to work his way up the slope, battering out each foothold with the head of his ax.

She had a sudden feeling of uncertainty as if he had kicked away a foothold upon which she had rashly attempted to rest.

Attempts were being made to get the gun mules of the battery through this, but at every step they sank up to their girths, even then not finding firm foothold.

I swung down on to the crumbling foothold that supported Holman, and breathlessly we began to scramble toward the valley.

" She climbed up to her seat, using the hub of her wheel for a foothold, and springing with surprising agility and strength.

She looked down a dizzy slope of which the horse's foothold seemed to her the most precarious part.

The ledge was covered with loose fragments of soft volcanic stone, and Riggs and I had to be careful in making the ascent to the top of the ridge, for every time we sought a foothold we threatened to bring down an avalanche of debris, and, not knowing what Rajah had seen, or how close the pirates might be, we were afraid of giving the alarm with a crash of loosened rocks.

Whether he be republican, flying from the oppression of thronesor whether he be monarch or monarchist, flying from thrones that crumble and fall under or around him,he feels equal assurance, that if he get foothold on our soil, his person is safe, and his rights will be respected.

Out of these she was only a little elderly thread-paper of a woman, of no apparent account among crowds of other people, and with scarcely enough of bodily bulk or presence to take any positive foothold anywhere.

Within ten years from his getting a foothold on Windermere banks, he had raised periodical literature to a height unknown before in our time, by his contributions to "Blackwood's Magazine"; and he seemed to step naturally into the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh in 1820.

Slipping and sliding attempts to gain a foothold become frequent, and strains of the tendons and ligaments follow in their wake.

He had tried in various pursuits to gain a foothold in the new life, but with indifferent success until he won the hand of Olivia Merkell, whom he had seen grow from a small girl to glorious womanhood.

Exposed to the full force of the winds, which are drawn through this river-valley as through a funnel, and with a foothold so narrow, it was easy to believe that neither man nor beast could pass here during the season of the northers, except at great risk of being dashed down the declivity.

The descent is sheer, but somehow she retains foothold.

Foothold of earth.

Foothold of earth.

He kicked about, trying to get foothold somewhere.

The creed of the backwoodsman who had a creed at all was Presbyterianism; for the Episcopacy of the tide-water lands obtained no foothold in the mountains, and the Methodists and Baptists had but just begun to appear in the west when the Revolution broke out.

By the end of 1775 the Americans had gained firm foothold in Kentucky.

Where their preachers obtained foothold, it was made a matter of reproach to the Presbyterian clergymen that they had been educated in early life for the ministry as for a profession.

Or let him through the far Steppes gallop, His horse can scarcely stand at all His stamping hoofs in vain seek foothold, The rider dreading lest he fall!

An. early morning attack won us the bridge and the town beyond, while heavy forces rushed the available fords, and after some severe fighting, obtained foothold on the opposite bank.

The three rejoiced together in that honest demonstration which seems permissible in the West, where social forms and fears have not much foothold.

She had entered the bow, and as Colonel Fraser dropped in they cast off, and she sat down, finding a bench as she had found foothold.