Away the actors went, rather like the fiery-footed steeds mentioned in their recitation. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2011)
Turk, or of both these savage people to drive back the fiery-footed Frank, whom Peter the Hermit had, in the time of Alexius, waked to double fury, by the powerful influence of the crusades. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I was so angry at length, that I threatened to have recourse to my pistols, and send a bullet after the Hotspur Andrew, which should stop his fiery-footed career, if he did not abate it of his own accord. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The sweat ran down his face in little streams a the prickly heat began to move across his skin, like a fiery-footed centiped beneath his undershirt, but he noticed, neither. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
And with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song. ❋ A. E. (1913)
I have heard the passionate gallop of those fiery-footed steeds. ❋ Frank Frankfort Moore (1893)
But that swift legion of fiery-footed engines that bore to the burning ruins of Chicago the loving help and generous treasure of the world was as noble and as beautiful as any golden troop of angels that ever fed the hungry and clothed the naked in the antique times. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)
Look at her soliloquy, 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,' etc., and yet it is woven through and through with immortal threads of fidelity and contempt of death: ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
They sauntered through the fragrant lanes, as if their loitering would prolong the time, and check the fiery-footed steeds galloping apace towards the close of the happy day. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)
The famous soliloquy, "Gallop apace, ye fiery-footed steeds," teems with luxuriant imagery. ❋ Unknown (1827)
His page then Itrait H'j to him call'd, a fiery-footed boy, ❋ Unknown (1790)
The former route of the Queen's pilgrimage to Engaddi had been on the other side of the chain of mountains, so that the ladies were strangers to the scenery of the desert; and though Berengaria knew her husband's disposition too well not to endeavour to seem interested in what he was pleased either to say or to sing, she could not help indulging some female fears when she found herself in the howling wilderness with so small an escort, which seemed almost like a moving speck on the bosom of the plain, and knew, at the same time, they were not so distant from the camp of Saladin but what they might be in a moment surprised and swept off by an overpowering host of his fiery-footed cavalry, should the Pagan be faithless enough to embrace an opportunity thus tempting. ❋ Unknown (1894)
She first asks the "fiery-footed steeds" to bring in "cloudy night," then night to close her curtain (that day's eyes may wink), that darkness may come, under cover of which Romeo may hasten to her. ❋ Various (1852)
