He runs bare-footed like a herdsman along the brinks of precipices.
The slow-footed moments dogged each other by and still he did not come.
In that wilderness it was well secreted lest any questing bird or four-footed creature of the moorlands might find it.
Mink must have lingered on the way, for a quarter of a mile farther on Music joined Sound in his work, and the two dogs footed it along right merrily, their mellow voices rousing a hundred echoes among the old red hills.
We had lived in the hope of finding a hog, or a sheep, or a cow, but not a sign of a four-footed creature did we see.
A quarter of a mile away, through the gathering darkness, Joe could see a white fringe gleaming against the horizon.
F] Woodward has recently suggested affinities of Trilobites with the Isopods or equal-footed crustaceans, on the evidence of a remarkable specimen with remains of feet described by Billings.
Railway conductors are equally polite, and seem to understand that it is a part of their business to protect tender-footed travelers, as angels always look after good little boys.
For a moment the three ruffians stood still in amazement, then they followed after like clumsy dogs in pursuit of the light-footed deer.
But in climbing the trembling maiden had a great advantage over the heavy footed drunken men.
Magister Laurenzano requests to be relieved from his spiritual functions," said at a sitting of the Church council held in the Auditorium of the former monastery of the bare-footed monks, the President Zuleger, a young Bohemian.
With the old bogey of the Bare-footed monks and the new Jesuit tricks, he will endeavour to restore papistry here," said the excited physician.
He danced the prettiest pas seal that was ever footed by debutant on the hot iron plates of Purgatory.
But it seemed to them all that an exceedingly bulky object had passed as guardian of the light- footed damsels preceding him.
Lies by a dingy cabinet A tarnished lute upon the floor; A talon-footed chair is set Grotesquely by the door.
It was probably practised in the early Iranian period by the Aryan horse tamers, who may have substituted man's fleet-footed friend for human beings.
He rode swiftly in pursuit of a nimble-footed stag, leaving his companions behind, until his steed expired with exhaustion.
For a few seconds that small, insignificant, desperate four-footed shape drew upon itself the undivided attention of several thousand men.
But all these things made no difference to these two four-footed dispatch-bearers who carried the destiny of the bridge beneath their collars.
I could not follow the quick-footed slaves, so I entered my house, full of happy thoughts.
He knew that the secretary had a way of going about as soft-footed as a cat.
In fact, as soon as they turned into a thronged business street, he lost sight of his four-footed guide entirely, but the direction Tag had taken was a sufficient clue.
These, the winter wildfowl, challenge the world to afford such display of winged and web-footed folk, and it is these we now endeavour to describe.
Four-footed creatures are less difficult of diagnosis than are birds.
To wilder Spain, with its 50 per cent of waste, and its vast irreclaimed marismas, come the web-footed race in quantities undreamt at home.
These small Spanish hares are marvellously fleet of foot, especially when an almost equally fleet-footed podenco is in full chase over ground as flat and bare as a bowling-green.
Then, mounted on a donkey, the writer alternately scrambled up the stony steeps or dragged the sure-footed beastie behind.
There go the plantigrade tracks of a badger, and hard by the light-footed prints of mongoose, mice, and an infinity of minor creatures.
The lobe-footed gecko, Salamanquésa in Spanish, haunts sunny rocks where insects abound.
In Four-Footed Americans and their Kin[37] a similar method is applied by Mabel Osgood Wright to the study of animals to that which was followed with reference to ornithology in Citizen Bird.
What they did, and how they became acquainted with the four-footed Americans, is told in this story.
Surely, you will not deny me this little help, from one four-footed friend.
So there he was again, a fishy, scaly, web-footed sort of personage, with something like a tuft of seaweed at his chin.
Was it not possible that some four-footed creature had ravaged the crops?
At noon Spiele came as usual through the dark gate, jumped off her wheel in her light-footed way and approached his place with a nod.
The one natural-footed girl was sought in marriage for the dollars that had been faithfully laid by for her.
John Muir, in his recent work on The Mountains of California (80), says it is truly astonishing to see what immense loads the haggard old Pah Ute squaws make out to carry bare-footed over the rugged passes.
Neither animal can be matched in speed on level ground by any native four-footed predator.
Winter, a period of famine for many animals, is just the opposite for these large-footed hares.
And she found the small-headed swift-footed stag scratching himself against a bare oak rampike.
I want to see Mademoiselle Karsavina, the schoolteacher," replied the bare-footed urchin, in a shrill voice.
Two saucy-looking girls in white hats stood on the platform at the end of the train and watched the two bare-footed men with astonishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
