Do you know nothing of a man caught there in the middle of the bridge where the footway has fallen out--do you know nothing of that man struggling to lift himself up from that cursed hole and crying for help?
A chance tree, storm felled across the stream or gully, not unfrequently affords the requisite footwaywithout the expenditure of labour.
Long forked branches may have their lateral shoots cut off at convenient distances apart, so as to form a footway of short prongs.
The transverse bars for the footway have a right and left chip taken out each end from the surface which is to lay next the ground log.
There came a passage in twilight, and into this passage a footway hung so that he could see the feet and ankles of people going to and fro thereon, but no more of them.
It was just a glimpse from a railed footway and then a buttress hid the place and they were going on towards the markets.
It possesses also a footway for pedestrians, from which point the whole town lies mapped at your feet, and you may trace the faraway windings of the river.
As they resembled ships, the slimy footway seemed the strand where they had been beached by the running out of the tide.
But when he arrived at the broken footway bridge, all was over.
This footway led only to the residence of Mrs. Swancourt and a cottage or two in its vicinity.
Through this, after the dissolution, a public footwaywas cut, which was closed in 1870, and a great deal of reconstruction was needful.
So saying, he put his pipe to his lips, and striking up a cheerful strain, he set off boldly on the little footway that stretched like a white line across the gloomy heath.
Rowland and Roderick turned aside from the little paved footway that clambered and dipped and wound and doubled beside the lake, and stretched themselves idly beneath a fig-tree, on a grassy promontory.
Close by Kate's was a street with a carriage way, at one end narrowing to a footway only.
The footpath mentioned passed between walls of large gardens, and the between fields, until it joined a road on the other side of which was the village church-yard, through which the footway passage continued till again a high-road intervened.
I went along slouching on the shady side, slowly looking, and not quite recollecting the number of the house, and saw Kate sitting on a chair on the footway by her door.
Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious; but Irvine scaled it with a light foot, carrying box after box, as the hero whisks the stage child up the practicable footway beside the waterfall of the fifth act.
They crossed the Rue Rambuteau, followed the broad footway skirting the markets, and went as far as a grocer's shop in the Rue de la Cossonnerie which was celebrated for its mixed screws.
On the footway close by, men were calling out the larger fish with prolonged shouts, which sounded as though they came from gigantic speaking-trumpets; and there was one individual who roared "Mussels!
Behind him, on the footway of the Rue Rambuteau, fruit was being sold.
The footway was transformed into a lake of liquid mud.
They had at times played together at horses on the broad footway in front of the fish market, Pauline always being the horse and Muche the driver.
They shivered as they turned out into the cold dampness of the night, and for a moment or two remained standing on the footway with dazzled eyes and buzzing ears, as though surprised by the dark silence of the street.
Lisa, who had stepped out on to the footway on observing the cab, hastily hurried back into the shop.
And I thought of all those things, of all that happiness, amidst the hubbub of the markets of Paris, before those poor dead flowers whose graveyard the footway had become.
On the footway of the Rue Rambuteau there were some immense heaps of cauliflowers, symmetrically piled up like so many cannonballs.
The whole of the wide footway was covered from end to end with dark mounds.
Claude, when he and Florent found themselves alone again on the footway of the Rue Rambuteau.
The inconvenience of such a height to persons crossing from one footway to the other was relieved by stepping-stones (pondera) of the same height firmly fixed at suitable distances from each other across the street.
The street itself was paved, as will be explained hereafter, and was supplied with a footway on either side raised from twelve to eighteen inches above its surface.
All the chairs on the footway were occupied, and the path was blocked with walkers to the rails.
Sacred ponds on either side of the footwayare swarming with sacred fish.
Traversing the green, some hundred and forty feet brings us to the Beauchamp, or Cobham Tower, connected with the Bell Tower by means of a footway on the top of the ballium wall.
The inner ward or ballium was defended by thirteen towers, connected by an embattled stone wall about forty feet, high and twelve feet thick, on the summit of which was a footway for the guard.
The eye easily discerns the sister land; they were united once; and the little path that runs between looks in a map but as a trodden footway through high grass.
It was plain that he had got out of Lincoln's Inn by this footway many times before.
The latter went into Chancery Lane by the iron-gated footway leading from the court of Stone Buildings and saw a crowd gathered on the pavement opposite the windows of Cooper Silwood's chambers.
The market-place is scarcely passable for the crowd, and the wooden booths are so thickly studded over its whole space, as to allow of only a narrowfootway between them.
On either footway was a compact crowd of promenaders whose eyes roamed over the equipages and whose hands could have shaken those of the carriage folks.
Giovanni glanced at her with annoyance and walked along the footway in the direction of his own glass-house, glad to go back to a place where he was absolute despot.
From time to time she glanced at the white line of the footway opposite, over which the shadow of the glass-house was beginning to creep as the sun moved westward.
Pasquale, who had never done such a thing in his life, actually went out upon the footway to the steps and steadied the gondola by the gunwale while Venier got in.
When Zorzi came out, the Greek walked off, up the footway and past the bridge.
Two men who were walking up the footway from the opposite direction stopped at a little distance and looked on, their hoods drawn over their eyes.
But he had seen it with his eyes, and he was not surprised when he felt himself lifted from his feet, with his crutch beside him, and carried along the footway at a sharp run, in the direction of the glass-house.
They were still in the covered footwayabove which the first story of the house was built, but were near the end, and the shutters of the lower windows were closed.
When the force came down the footway from the dilution of San Piero, Giovanni was still talking to his wife about household economies and censuring what he called the reckless extravagance of his father's housekeeping.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
