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Example sentences for "our feet"

  • A good wash and clean clothing followed by a sumptuous dinner of venison put us on our feet again.

  • At our feet, sparkling in the sunlight, spread the lake upon whose shores our tent, a little white dot amongst the green trees, was pitched.

  • To the northward, at our feet, were two small lakes, and just beyond, trending somewhat to the northwest, was a long lake reaching up through the valley until it was lost in the low hills and sparse growth of trees beyond.

  • Of course no one had dreamed of washing or wiping it out in any fashion, so we had to sit upon wet cushions and put our feet into a pool of red mud and water.

  • Within us He will chiefly prove Himself the Guide of our spirits, and will not merely cast His beams on the path of our feet, but will fill and flood us with His own brightness.

  • As the time drew near to make an effort to reach camp, we became concerned to know what strength was left us, and whether or no we could walk; for we had lain flat all this time without once rising to our feet.

  • We leaped to our feet, and my first idea, an absurd one enough, was that a rattlesnake was hurrying through the grass to our attack.

  • A stroke from the landing-net laid the monster at our feet, its strength all spent.

  • Flamaran and I sat down together on the bank, our feet resting on the soft sand strewn with dead branches.

  • To us some of his difficulties are puzzling only from their simplicity: we do not perceive that the answer to them 'is tumbling out at our feet.

  • While we are straining our eyes into the distance, justice is tumbling out at our feet.

  • The blossoms drifted at our feet, The orchard birds sang clear; The sweetest and the saddest day It seemed of all the year.

  • Crowds of bees are giddy with clover, Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  • The arrow flew upwards and bore the thread over the branch and fell at our feet.

  • A live monkey up in that tree is of more use to us than a dozen dead ones at our feet, as I will show you.

  • I convinced him of the fact by pointing out the marks of our feet on the ground, and the broken jaws where we had hacked out the whalebone.

  • Two fell, and Fangs, who was with us, brought them to our feet.

  • We sat on grassy slopes that meet With sudden dip the level strand; The trees hung overhead--our feet Were on the sand.

  • Couldn't master persuade his friend Captain Nemo to send the three of us ashore, if only so our feet don't lose the knack of treading on the solid parts of our planet?

  • Just then a stone whizzed toward us, landed at our feet, and cut short the harpooner's proposition.

  • A beautiful water-break of the same stream was before us at our feet, and he noticed the connection which it formed in the landscape with the distant waterfall.

  • In a word, it would not be too much to say that the tidings of this event did not spread with the commotion of a storm which sweeps visibly over our heads, but like an earthquake which rocks the ground under our feet.

  • Toilet soap, boots, and bear-traps are at our feet.

  • Who would worry about mosquitoes with that splendid spectacular of the Grand Rapids at our feet?

  • But at this moment we had won to the top of a stiff ascent: and now, looking down at our feet, I had the joyfullest surprise.

  • Looking down into the valley at our feet, at first I saw no sign of our own troops--only the roofs of a little town, with overmuch smoke spread above it, like a morning mist.

  • But just as a brace of bullets splashed into the slough at our feet, we stagger'd to the harder slope, and were gaining on them again.

  • I tried to sway less heavily in the saddle, and with my eyes searched the plain at our feet.

  • At our feet was an iron bar driven into the soil, and to it a stout rope knotted, that ran over a block and disappeared down the cliff.

  • Safe just for so long as it should please the soldiers not to come down to take us, safe with a discharged pistol in our grasp, and a shot man lying at our feet.

  • It was a cunning plan of Blackbeard; but other folk were quite as cunning as he, and here was all his treasure at our feet.

  • Felix, of course, was in excellent spirits, and talked as if we had the whole kingdom at our feet.

  • When day breaks we shall see the camp almost at our feet.

  • The weather, fortunately, was dry, but the sun beat down fiercely, and at times we were half-choked by the dust that rose from beneath our feet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our feet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feet above the present; little noise; our army; our author; our being; our duty; our eyes; our family; our first; our hands; our land; our language; our lives; our love; our men; our minds; our old; our own; our political; our return; our souls; our time; our town; our view; our work; oure lady