I have known horses drop their hind legs on places scarcely affording foothold for a goat, but in all such feats they have been ridden by a lover of the animal, who trusts it implicitly, and rules by kindness rather than fear.
He is usually allowed to turn on his shoulders, with his hind-legs too far back to be of the slightest assistance if he slips or stumbles, and should the foothold be greasy, as may happen in London streets, down he comes flat on his side.
Keep an eye forward then, and shape your course where the foothold is smooth and sound.
Should he drop his hind-legs under the farther bank, he will probably not obtain foothold to extricate himself, particularly with your weight on his back.
Ride for ground as far as possible when the foothold is good; the fences will take care of themselves; but let no advantages of sound turf, nor even open gates, tempt you to stray more than a couple of hundred yards from the pack.
In this way the Latin alphabet found a foothold in Britain about the beginning of the Christian era.
Until these years, they had gained no foothold on the land of Munster.
Those who have the best of reputation, if they lose their foothold on the ladder, find it difficult enough to regain their place.
Here, too, Henry George wrote his Progress and Poverty, a book that was a prophet-cry heard round the world, declaring that every man has a right to a foothold on the earth.
The idea of a foothold in Texas had been gradually swelling until at length it had attained the dimensions of an overland army of occupation.
Yielding his own views as to Mobile, Banks entered heartily into the project of the government for gaining a foothold in Texas.
We have seen how, in one movement, three divergent ideas were being carried out without either having been distinctly decided on: a foothold in Texas, an overland occupation in force, and a swift raid by the river.
Seven months had thus been spent in desultory adventures and in multitudinous preparations without a serious military object, and still the capture of Mobile was to be put off, and still the dream of a foothold in Texas was to be pursued.
The object of this approach was partly to amuse the enemy, partly to prevent his breaking through the line, now drawn out very thin, and partly also to serve as a foothold for a column of attack in case of need.
But something more modern still found foothold on that same spit of rock, though farther out, hidden below the levels of the river.
Is there so much as foothold anywhere, whence we may deal a blow?
It seemed possible--if a foothold or two were picked out of the crumbling brick, and a rope hitched on to an iron hook he knew of, some ten feet up the wall.
Except for the place where Bill daily removed the supply for his horses there was not much foothold for a spark, since a thin coat of snow overlaid the greater part of the top.
Hang it, I don't know but we'd be better off if we were pegging away for a foothold somewhere, like old Jake.
Many times their feet would scarcely find a foothold when the sand would give way, making it necessary for them to sprawl out or clutch one another in order to prevent rolling down.
At last, panting and perspiring, they came to the last foothold and pulled themselves up to the top.
The owl hooted, and presently Wake descended lightly beside me; he must have known every foothold and handhold by heart to do the job in that inky blackness.
I found it easier, for I knew something about rocks, but it was difficult enough with every handhold and foothold glazed.
She paused another moment, sitting on the edge and feeling for foothold on the root she had used in coming up; then she swung lightly off.
He cut foothold with his knife, and other niches higher up for his hands, and pulled himself erect on the slippery shelf.
He sprang to his feet, spluttering, clutching at the helm, losing his foothold on the slanting deck, while the Phantom raced down before the sudden flaw.
After the coronation, the Emperor paid a rapid visit to Southern Italy, where the Normans had secured a foothold ten years before, and, by defending the country against the Greeks and Saracens, were rapidly making themselves its rulers.
Protestant kingdom had become even more a foothold for the Church of Rome than Catholic Bavaria.
Shortly after midnight the 167th Brigade gained a foothold in Bouleaux Wood on the right of the Battalion, and a reconnaissance made by Lieut.
Here 'tis the third day o' June it was written by his own hand.
The method of textual analysis introduced by Elijah Gaon into Talmudic research, which took the place of the hair-splitting casuistry formerly in vogue, gained ever wider currency and an ever firmer foothold in the yeshibahs of Lithuania.
The Gallican Church scented danger in these bondsmen of the Papacy; and it was only when they helped to organize the League that the influence of the Guises gave them a foothold in the kingdom.
At the back of the chariot a Jesuit has succeeded in securing foothold upon the baggage, and is adding his voice to hasten the forward march, all symbolic of the violent momentum of the reactionary movement.
When the French advanced over the ice the British gunners sent such a hail of grape-shot crashing along this precarious foothold that the enemy were glad to scamper off as hard as their legs would take them.
Montcalm replied: 'I shall do everything to maintain a footholdin New France, or die in its defence'; and he kept his word.
The doctrine of patronage thus got a foothold in the government.
But although the emperor made little headway against Francis, the French king, on account of strategic blunders and the disunion of the league, was unable to maintain a sure foothold in Italy.
Should France be allowed to make good her claim to the Mississippi valley and possibly to drive the British from their slender foothold on the coast of America?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foothold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
