He started working his way up the perpendicular face, clinging by the pick of his ice-staff, chopping footholds with the hatchet; the pack and the slung rifle on his back pulled at him and threatened to drag him down.
While he had been chopping footholdswith a hatchet, they had been smashing tons of ice out of their way.
It has two peaks, of which the highest is accessible, footholds having been cut into the face of it, and the most difficult part being surmounted by a rude ladder made by cutting notches in a pole.
That morning, as a special favor, the Little Boy had been allowed to go ahead with Mr. Hilligoss, who was to clear trail and cut footholds where they were necessary.
They let themselves cautiously down the footholds that had been chopped in the roof, and looked over.
When the ladder had reached to the eaves, he and his companions dragged the squirting, writhing hose up with them, chopped footholds in the roof, and lay flat to look over the ridgepole as over a breastwork.
He climbed thefootholds of one globe, deftly removed its top, and looked inside.
There were even small footholds sunk into their curving sides so a man could climb to their tops and inspect or change the apparatus within.
Stable footholds were impossible for the loose rocks slipped and slid, rolled from beneath the sheep's feet and bounded down the slope.
Snow swirled down the cliffs, plastering rocks and ledges until bothfootholds and handholds were hidden.
It is impossible for him to see the slight footholds or handholds on which he must put his trust, and weight.
Beyond all the other horsemen he rode, and saw far above in the scrubby growth, the enemy seeking footholdswhere the four-footed animals could not follow.
He dug out those footholds and filled them up with grass and clay, so that they presented the same appearance as the rest of the cliff.
The cutting of these footholds must have taken a considerable time, and in spite of the daily examination of the ground for any sign of a tunnel, the niches had escaped observation.
There might be footholds down that awful facade, if only he could not care whether they were footholds or no.
Here he had to go out on the sheer precipice, where his footholds were invisible from below.
Moses was right; there was in reality little danger in the climb, for the ledges which appeared to them like mere threads, and the footholds that were almost invisible, were in reality from a foot to three feet wide.
While stepping from one of these precarious footholdsto another, I staggered for a moment.
Note the hairs on the stamens provided as footholds for the bees.
Inasmuch as these are short-spurred species, requiring no effort for bees to drain their nectaries, no footholdsin the form of beards on the side petals are provided for them.
Hairy footholds on anthers and filaments are provided lest the bee fall while reversed and sifting out the pollen.
Doubtless these hairs also serve as footholds for the welcome bee clinging to its pendent host.
The initial phase envisaged footholds in the southern and central Philippines for the establishment of bases and airfields from which subsequent operations could be supported.
The paths were often so steep that footholds had to be cut into the hillsides, and soldiers were forced to use their hands to avoid falling as much as forty to a hundred feet.
My glass showed that he was walking along a mere crack in the rock, where footholds existed mostly in imagination.
Most of the West Indian islands, however, with British Honduras and British Guiana on the mainland, had been acquired for the empire, which had now secured footholds in all the continents of the world.
Every few minutes we would make footholds in the snow large enough to enable us to stand on our heels as well as our toes, or we would distribute our weight on toe and hand-holds and rest by lying up against the wall of snow.
The yellow man has to conquer every step, though he has already acquired footholds and has behind him the welling reservoirs of Asia.
Three times they had to cut new footholds in the rock.
Moving to the place on the ledge he had prepared for just such a conflict, the Mantis dug his four hook-clawed hind legs into carefully etched footholds in the rock.
Though he could not be certain of the scent, the wind being in the opposite quarter, the low, scratching sound of hooked claws searching for footholds was unmistakable.
The footholds in the weathered stones would be precarious, but perhaps it could be done.
The stone was smooth but grainy; he dug his fingers into narrow niches and pulled himself slowly upward, bracing himself with footholds whenever he could.
The peak before him offered no footholdsand therefore could not possibly be scaled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footholds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
