In fact there had been already several jealousies between the two services, the Admiral and his officers affecting to regard the Company's forces as on an inferior footing to themselves.
He had just made good his footing on the top of the bank, and now he began climbing up the masonry like a cat, till at last his herculean figure stood out clear on the summit.
I flatter myself I have persuaded this Court of the unreasonableness of expecting any subsidy in time of peace, and that an alliance upon an equal footing will be more safe and more honourable for both nations.
After he had gained a permanent footing on board the Sofala he allowed his perennial hope to rise high.
Let the priest be ever kept on the same footing as the merchant--that is, maintained at the expense of the consumer.
You cannot imagine," pursued Mrs. Marsden, "on what a familiar footing we are.
This better footing never led him nearer the enemy, for it is well known that the one awaiting has the advantage.
When half-way up his footing gave way, and down he rolled to the bottom.
But the Borderers have ever been horse lovers, and now the unwonted sight of a man, booted and spurred, footing it, at once drew eyes to him that might have taken little heed had he been mounted.
Longer or shorter, lighter or heavier footing will vary this balancing-point, as also any variation in the weight of the piles.
For the footing any hard wood will do; and if this be solid for one inch below the pile it will be amply sufficient.
Lord Godolphin's times, the credit of the public was immediately restored, and, by means of this scheme, put upon as good a footing as the best private security.
The gentleman will please to mind hisfooting on the stairs.
Bonaparte was anxious to place the Cisalpine Republic on a footing of harmony with the Government of France.
Collot hed been on the most intimate footing with Bonaparte, and had rendered him many valuable services.
But Mary had never dreamt of appealing to Elizabeth as to a judge, and she now learned with indignation that her rebellious nobles were to be encouraged to come before that Queen on the same footing with herself.
If the gentleman is not acquainted with the lady whom he is to take in to dinner, he asks his hostess to present him to her, and he endeavors to place himself on an agreeeble footing with her before they enter the dining-room.
Society is the intercourse of persons on a footing of apparent equality," and if so, any one in it who treats other people so as to make them uncomfortable is manifestly unfit for society.
The draft of the bill concerning the peace footing of the German army, through which a strengthening of our available force would have been achieved, was presented to the last Reichstag.
There will, therefore, be laid before you without delay a new bill concerning the peace footing of the army.
She betrayed no infirmity of footingas she walked past Arlington in the hall; and she was alive to the voice of Skepsey presently on the door-steps.
He was on the footing where men are precipitated by what is within them to blunder.
The Queensland Government tried to get a footing in New Guinea about thirty years ago, but the British Government would not then lend its support.
They can't turn against me withoutfooting the bill!
He kept his footing like a cat, faced around and started coolly in the direction of Matt, Carl and Graydon.
At night the men had sometimes to gather on a narrow footing of dry land in the midst of a swamp and huddled over a fire that at any moment rain might extinguish.
Colonel Fraser is doing all in his power to provide trowsers for them, and we hope soon to be on a footing with other Regiments in that respect.
In Europe, the footing on which service is placed in consequence of the corruptions of society, hardens the heart, destroys confidence, and embitters life.
The colored people made little or no effort to go to white theaters or hotels and did not attempt to ride in public conveyances on equal footing with members of the other race.
I look upon us Refreshmenters as ockipying the only proudly independent footing on the Line.
Therefore the present, which only man possesses, offers less capacity for his footing than the slenderest film that ever spider twisted from her womb.
There ain't a one among 'em on the nobly independent footing we are.
Madame Murat, to her shame, seconded these proposals, and expressed her earnest desire that Madame Recamier should be attached to her household, which was now put on the same footing as that of the empress.
At the mixed universities Catholics are by no means on a footing of equality with Protestants, and a professor or a fellow who is a staunch Catholic will almost certainly fall into disgrace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
