Nina, who was moving across the grass, with her dress so draped as to show the most perfect instep and ankle with a very unguarded indifference.
Where on earth did she get slippers which buttoned across the instep with a strap?
It fell short, slid down my other shin, and lodged on the instep in a most unique twist.
Then the snow-shoe noose slips completely over his instep to his ankle, throwing the racquet on edge and clogging him back.
To save theinstep from jars, the slip noose may be padded like a cowboy's stirrup.
It measures more than sixty feet round the shoulders, the breadth of the instep is nearly seven feet, and the hieroglyphical figures engraven on the arm are large enough for a man to walk in.
Now for the orphan family--marked ye them round "The swelling instep of the mountain's foot?
No one ever saw such an instep come from this side the Pyrenees; and those eyes have got their look of sleepy wickedness from Moorish blood.
The Victoria and French pad inside the stirrup, except when the safety bar and habit are adopted, are fraught with danger; with these precautions they are a great comfort, and guard the instep at the trot when the foot is thrust well home.
The pit of the neck will always be perpendicular over the middle of the instep of the foot that supports the body.
In truth, there was good reason; for the instep was the seat of intense pain.
I found the instep of my right foot in a state of open rebellion against the strictures that had been laid upon it, and particularly against the act of close confinement.
When a rider has become expert she may ride with her foot "home," that is, with the instep resting on the iron.
When he had finished he rubbed the place he had been scratching against his master's calf, and settled down again with his chin over the instep of the disturbing boot.
Collector, leaning back in a chair and extending a shapely leg with instep and ankle whereon the riding-boot fitted like a glove.
The footwear consists of sandals fastened by thongs passing over the instep and round the big toe.
This instep piece is to be ribbed in rows of four, viz: four rows in which the plain side is uppermost, and four rows in which the pearled side is uppermost.
With each stitch of the twentieth row, an edge-stitch of the side at the toe-end of the slipper must be picked up, knitted and cast off, and a neat and entire union of the toe of the slipper and the instep piece formed.
A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
Joe repeated his "drop back to instep hang" that afternoon.
Joe climbed up to his small trapeze, swung on it and then fell backward for his first instep hang.
In the trapeze world this is known as "drop back to instep hang.
He then brought the rope around over the instep of his left foot, holding it in position with pressure by the right foot, which was pressed against the left.
For reply he stooped to her foot, and kissed the mesh-clad instep fervidly.
She held out her hand for his, and then sat down, displaying one of the fascinating slippers, and the openwork instep of her silk stocking, through the meshes of which the pearly skin gleamed evasively.
Repeat this round until you have only 8 stitches left on your instep needle, and 8 on the back needles.
You ought to have 27 on each side needle, 25 on the instep needle.
You will have 28 stitches on instep needle, 14 on each of the others.
Knit to within 5 stitches of end, when knit 2 together, k 2, and pass the last stitch on to instep needle.
Toe Prepare for toe by knitting to end of instep needle, and on that needle knit 2 stitches off the next.
Repeat this until you have only 8 stitches left on the instep and 8 on back needles, 16 in all.
Prepare for it by knitting to end of instep needle on same needle, knit 3 stitches off next needle.
You will have 28 stitches on instep needle, 28 on the back needles.
Knit plain to within 2 stitches of end, slip these two on to instep needle.
This needle is henceforward called theinstep needle.
They had once been white, but they were now as yellow as old ivory, and the narrow ribbon intended to cross over the instep and to tie around the ankle had deepened almost into the tint of the withered primrose.
Continue up the side, across the instep and along to the heel again.
The sock illustrated is a full-size man’s sock, and the joinings are shown in the dark line round the heel, along the side of the foot, and across the instep at the beginning of the front toe part.
Knit this piece until it is exactly the same length as the instep portion.
In this way the leg and instep portions, which seldom wear out, may be made to serve for two or three renewals of the parts exposed to wear.
Pick up 14 loops at each side of the heel, and commence working in rounds again for the foot, continuing the rib on the instep needles, but working in plain knitting for the under part of the foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
