For those not familiar with this event, Bay to Breakers is an annual foot-race which takes place in San Francisco, California. ❋ Tamie Adaya (2011)
The trouble was over in an amazingly short time, for from the judges 'stand beside the track the announcer was bellowing the start of the boys' foot-race; and Bert, disappointed, joined ❋ Unknown (2010)
Po lil tink-tink.. “the last place you want to be in a foot-race is behind the man wit no foots!” ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the way out of the theater, Jym declared a foot-race to see who could get back to LiveJournal fastest and make fun of this flick ... but then he changed his mind. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They had already completed the chariot-race, and the foot-race of the pentathlon. 733 The competitors entitled to enter for the wrestling match had left the racecourse, and were getting through their bouts in the space between the racecourse and the great altar. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Achilles institutes the funeral games: the chariot-race, the fight of the caestus, the wrestling, the foot-race, the single combat, the discus, the shooting with arrows, the darting the javelin: the various descriptions of which, and the various success of the several antagonists, make the greatest part of the book. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Cimmerian, already winded from the foot-race, knew he would be skewered if he let his concentration slip for even a moment. ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)
I don't even know who won the foot-race — four years to the next, and by then one may be dead ... ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)
That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. ❋ Unknown (1969)
While they cleared the track for the foot-race, we slipped up into the woods; then skirted the hillside till we struck the footpath the girls had used to the beach. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
As to fairness, it is about as fair as a foot-race between a giant and a midget with each limited to taking the same number of steps. ❋ Unknown (1952)
That on the north contained the _stadium_, or foot-race course, which was, however, sometimes disconnected from the gymnasium. ❋ Various (N/A)
There was a discussion as to what constituted the "toe-hold," three boys ran an impromptu foot-race, there was some talk on the poor condition of the range, and the party began to break up. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"CYNTHIA," said the Queen, beckoning with her rosy fingers to another maiden, "will you recite to me your Pindaric Ode on the late foot-race?" ❋ Various (N/A)
I have had no such rest for years, and this morning, but for the stiffness of my limb, should be tempted to challenge you for a foot-race. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Here he allures with rewards and offer of prizes those who will try their hap in the fleet foot-race. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
But in the noble exhibitions of the foot-race there will be no danger of satiety, for the art of running may be diversified by such innumerable modifications, that it will appear “ever charming, ever new.” ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The competition between man and man in the modern foot-race is certainly fair; but, for the better regulation of the movements of public runners, it might be expedient that an amateur, mounted on an ass, should keep pace with the performers, and, by the judicious application of a whip, prevent any of the tricks belonging to the turf, such as crossing and jostling, that gamesters might have a fair chance for their money. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The race, run upon the foot-race course, was between fixed boundaries, about a _stadium_ apart. ❋ Various (N/A)
