Mrs. Allen lit the candles on the little altar at the foot of the bed; all withdrew for a few moments leaving Amy alone with the Priest.
Dion, a fine surgeon, set it, and placed my footin plaster-of-paris.
Silver Lake woods sat on a hill slope studded with pine trees; at the foot of the hill could be seen a most beautiful piece of water glistening in the sunshine.
Suddenly his foot caught in his long trail and landed him on his back.
The strong winter sun had warmed the flat slab on the south side and, sinking down with a sigh of delight, she embraced her knees and bent over to gaze into the sparkling little waterfall that gushed across the foot of the boulder.
David had had moored at the foot of the bridge during the dog days of the previous summer so that they might have a joyous dip in the river between editions.
When Larry Kinsella heard the sound of my foot on his step he leapt up.
Some one's foot was trodden on and a surly scuffle ensued.
At the foot of the rock is a draw-well, and a little way up is a tank called the Giant's Well.
In the place of the hand and foot of flesh and blood the boy was supplied with metal substitutes, and the hand was formed of silver.
The church possesses a splendid piece of plate, a silver cup over a foot high.
So delighted was he to hear that Samson was approaching that he ran to meet him with one leg and foot shod and the other bare.
It is only a coincidence that at the foot of Pencarrow is a chapel bearing Conan's name.
Patrick, on which occasion the apostle ran the spike at the end of the pastoral staff into the foot of the king.
According to one account he fell a victim to his rashness or enthusiasm; he tried to carry the Gospel to the Saxons, but was cut down by their axes at the foot of the altar.
In order to incapacitate his nephew Melor, son of the murdered Melyan, from menacing his throne, he had his right hand and one foot cut off, as by Celtic law no cripple or disfigured person is qualified to become a chief or a prince.
I found the Pope sitting under a Canopy, in an Elbow-chair, ascended by three Steps, with his right Foot resting on a Cushion of red Velvet.
Perhaps you will not dislike to know what they are doing, and on what Foot they stand here.
The Elector's Houshold is very numerous, but he has no more than two Regiments of Foot in his Electorate.
Zoccolo,' a wooden sandal kept on the foot by a leather strap over the instep.
Before he had eaten many, however, he found his nose had begun to grow to a terrible size; a foot for every fig.
Aver la bocca sulla bara,' is 'to have one footin the grave.
And the stupid old countryman sat down at the foot of the statue.
Then he came down from the mountain, and when he was at the foot of it, being hungry with the long journey, he ate of the grass that grew there, and, behold!
Instantly he found himself on a floating rock in mid ocean, at the foot of the palace.
The first night after she came the wife suddenly woke up the husband, saying:-- 'What is it that kneels at the foot of the bed?
As he ate on his nose felt queerer and queerer; he put his hand up and found it was quite a foot [107] long!
Half you will get for the land you will spend in moving to Missouri, and the other half you will eat, drink, and wear out, and no foot of land will be bought.
So large an army as the government has now on foot was never before known, without a soldier in it but who has taken his place there of his own free choice.
While these real attacks are taking place upon thefoot and at the waist of the Peninsula, the knife will be flourished at its neck.
Admiral Pierce and his Flag Captain, Burmeister, honoured the occasion: they were on foot and so, not to elevate the stature of the Army above that of the Senior Service, I took the salute dismounted.
Commodore Roger Keyes came along with me, and we set footon Turkish soil for the first time at 9.
A certain number of stragglers were slipping quietly back towards Cape Helles along the narrow sandy strip at the foot of the high cliffs, so, as it was flat calm, I sent Aspinall off in a small boat with orders to rally them.
Our main covering detachment held up on water's edge, at foot of amphitheatre of low cliffs round the little bay West of Sedd-el-Bahr.
Let him but put his foot down, and who dare say him nay?
The guns of the Fleet can clear the crest of the cliffs and the strip of sand at their foot should then be as healthy as Brighton.
To be knocked out before having taken part in a battle, or even having set foot upon the Promised Land--nothing could be more cruel.
There are some instances of the first foot consisting of a single (accented) syllable only, the unaccented one being altogether wanting, as in ll.
The first foot in the line consists of the single word «what».
Lukafer demands Floripas for his wife, in return for which he promises her father to bring Charlemagne and his twelve peers to the foot of his throne.
Floripas has been engaged to Lukafer who had promised the Soudan, her father, to bring the emperor Charlemagne and all his twelve peers to the foot of his throne, in return for the hand of his daughter.
A verse has generally an iambic effect, that is to say, the first foot begins with an unaccented syllable, which is followed by an accented one.
The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to a later ownership.
But when Amelia puts herfoot down, she puts her foot down--a fact which she is unnecessarily fond of emphasising in that identical proposition.
Medhurst had arranged everything in advance with the Paris police, three of whom, in plain clothes, were waiting at the foot of the staircase to assist us.
For one moment I feared the Tyrolese nobleman in him was going to raise its foot and take active measures.
He looked at me from head to foot with a curious scrutiny.
Aristotle who was on foot Knocked Grammar down flat.
May the foot of sacrilege, if once offering to enter the gates thereof, stumble and rise no more.
In the early days the town seems to have been limited to a little knot of houses round the castle and along the street leading down to the river ford at the foot of the Castle Hill.
Knives and forks and silver goblets were laid for two on a little table at the foot of a huge bed that had a canopy of printed cotton with figures representing Turks.
The outlines of the foot disappeared in such a swelling that the entire skin seemed about to burst, and it was covered with ecchymosis, caused by the famous machine.
With the tips of her fingers she caught her dress at the knee, and having thus pulled it up to her ankle, held out her foot in its black boot to the fire above the revolving leg of mutton.
In the warm season the bank, wider than at other times, showed to its foot the garden walls, whence a few steps led to the river.
If it is left on the right hand and the foot of the Saint-Jean hills followed, the cemetery is soon reached.
Charles in the street buckled his spurs, his foot on the mounting stone, while she talked to him from above, picking with her mouth some scrap of flower or leaf that she blew out at him.
Galloping up to the foot of the steps, it stopped short and emptied its load.
The firemen at the foot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, motionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his sabre in the air.
He had a foot forming almost a straight line with the leg, which, however, did not prevent it from being turned in, so that it was an equinus together with something of a varus, or else a slight varus with a strong tendency to equinus.
Continuing his way down, the old gentleman reached the footof the staircase, and disappeared round a corner into the hall.
The figure of a woman would come gliding downstairs, carrying her head under her arm, and on arriving at the foot of the stairs she invariably vanished.
Dig at the foot of that tree and you will find him whom you seek.
Suddenly she became conscious that the now familiar figure of the apparition was standing at the foot of the bed, looking at her.
What human foot shall dare intrude Beyond the howling waste, Or view the untrodden solitude, Where thy dark home is placed; In those far realms of death where light Shrieks from thy glance and all is night?
Lucille half rose, and then with her foot upon the step she paused and looked around.
She is bound hand and foot to him, and yet--" Her eyes met his, and he laughed.
Lady Carey, in a wonderful white serge costume, and a huge bunch of Neapolitan violets at her bosom, was lounging in an easy-chair, swinging her foot backwards and forwards.
Only I wanted you to understand why I once more set foot in Europe.
She hesitated with her foot upon the step of her carriage.
Soon after I came of age, I examined its obstructions, set on foot a subscription for removing them, got an Act of Assembly passed, and the thing effected, so as to be used completely and fully for carrying down all our produce.
He has hitherto believed that our deer never had horns more than a foot long; and has, therefore, classed them with the roe buck, which I am sure you know them to be different from.
A gentleman of Georgia assured me, General Oglethorpe did not own a foot of land in the State.
An Indian goes on foot nearly as far in a day, for a long journey, as an enfeebled white does on his horse; and he will tire the best horses.
In a village at the foot of Snowdon an old quarryman died, and before he passed away expressed the wish that he should be laid by the side of his daughter, who was buried in the graveyard of the Church of England.
On the hills rising from behind Criccieth and forming the foot of the Snowdon range he has built a graceful residence, whence he can look down over the wooded slopes to Criccieth and thence to Carnarvon Bay.
Llanystumdwy, the boyhood home of Lloyd George, is a picturesque village, a mile or so from the sea, nestling at the foot of the Snowdon range.
It would be a shame to him to set his foot on any other threshold before he had spoken to her.
Frank stared at the rifle, that lay at the foot of a particularly big live-oak, parts of which seemed to be rotting away, as there were dead limbs strewing the ground underneath it.
I can see myself waking up to find a bobtailed cat cuddling up under my blanket with me; or a ten-foot 'gator sprawled out across Will, here, asking to have his picture taken.
I will track that man down to his very grave," said I, solemnly, shaking my forefinger at her as she rested one hand on the foot of the bed and looked at me with breathless interest.
The next time I saw my mother angel she was laughing at me softly while looking over the foot of the bed.
While this was in progress, Shaver suddenly opened his eyes wide and raising one foot until it approximated the perpendicular, reached for it with his chubby hands.
Shaver's father had missed him by only the matter of a foot or two, and as he had no intention of offering himself again as a target he stood not upon the order of his going.
At the foot of the steps she turned and held out her hand.
Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
Accordingly, he commanded five of his men that were speedy of foot to chase after him, and either make him prisoner or slay him.
One foot only was in the stirrup, the other hung carelessly by his side; his head was bowed, the reins dropped loose, and his horse went on as he would.
There it lay at the foot of a high cliff, and he was informed by the natives that there had never been a drought in which this basin had dried up.
That he did not gain for Christendom so much as a single foot of earth is not so much to be lamented, as that he made wider the breach between Christian men and the followers of Mahomet.
When he first put his foot on the island he said to himself, "Now Joseph, my boy, this is your life-work.
Said Hagen, when he saw him rise, "I have heard say that there is no man in all the land so fleet of foot as Siegfried.
It struck his footand he expired that very moment.
And the Cid rode up to the door, and took his foot out of the stirrup, and gave it a kick, but the door did not open with it, for it was well secured.
Some I saw carried in litters, and others that could scarce set one foot before the other crawled painfully along the road.
So he turns away, and she still stands at the foot of the staircase, watching him uneasily.
Hayne had not set foot in such a place for five years, and quietly declined all invitations to take a cue again.
I think you have been extremely neglectful," said Mrs. Rayner, who had turned and now stood watching the rising color and impatiently tapping foot of her younger sister.
Unlike one or two others of their arm of the service, this particular regiment of foot held the affairs of its officers as regimental property in which outsiders had no concern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
