Here he was soiling his purple boots as he crushed the filth under-foot; and he had not all these men before him at the end of a catapult to make them fly into fragments! ❋ Unknown (2003)
He pretended to get indignant when the other guys left spilled beer on the vomit-colored carpet in the common room or ground Cheetos into microscopic orange dust under-foot. ❋ Francine Pascal (2001)
Detecting a rising rustle of leaf litter being crushed under-foot, Adjami rose from his cross-legged seat. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
With each step Evan smashed dozens of them under-foot, but there was nothing he could do to prevent it. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1985)
Crystal shells crunched under-foot as he stepped off the rock and their bright green growths hastened to regenerate the protective transparent bubbles. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1985)
"Is that your interpretation of thunder rumbling under-foot?" ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1984)
"Oh, but it's wet under-foot, Mervyn," remarked Bunny wisely, "and it's a bad thing to get your feet wet -- Sophie screams fearfully at me if I put my toe out, even long after the rain has stopped." ❋ Clara Mulholland (N/A)
There was nothing about them but a spreading mellowness and the baked turf under-foot. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
All about, under-foot and growling if they were disturbed, were the ugly dogs. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)
I've been trodden under-foot over and over again -- but I've borne it with fortitude, and never, never given way. ❋ Various (N/A)
There's two other girls in with me, and seems like we're always under-foot to each other. ❋ Various (N/A)
He treads on all the flounces, runs against all the clerks, knocks over all the children, and is generally under-foot. ❋ Various (N/A)
Susan found the ferry-place in San Francisco hot and deserted; the tar pavements were softened under-foot; gongs and bells of cars made ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
But we were at home; and the trodden leaves were lying under-foot, and the autumn wind was blowing. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)
And here in this place of shadows, where the lichen strangled the trees, and under-foot the moss hushed the tread, where we spoke in whispers, and mirth seemed a mockery, where every stick and stone seemed eloquent of disenchantment and despair, here in this valley of Dead Things we found Jim. ❋ Unknown (1916)
The green paper curtains were stamped with conventional landscapes of a foreign order, castles on inaccessible crags, and lovely lakes with steep wooded shores; under-foot the treasured carpet was covered thick with home-made rugs. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Thus that very individual, who, had he fallen from his eminence, would have excited emulation among small and great in trampling him under-foot, now, having spontaneously humbled himself to the dust, was reverenced by many, and spared by all. ❋ Unknown (1909)
At that, the bo'sun led us round a space towards that side where lay the valley, and here there was under-foot neither sand nor rock; but ground of strange and spongy texture, and then suddenly, rounding a jutting spur of the rock, we came upon the first of the vegetation -- an incredible mushroom; nay, I should say toadstool; for it had no healthy look about it, and gave out a heavy, mouldy odor. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Perhaps because of certain old and elegant carpets lying under-foot in the glow and shadows of old drawing-rooms that we love, the name of ❋ Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee (1905)
After that one sobbing cry he tore like a madman dawn into the valley, traveling swiftly through the muck of fire and under-foot tangle with Peter fighting behind him. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
