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My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres. - Frank Gelett Burgess, My Feet There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints, Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints. - Charles Churchill And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats! - William Congreve, Love for Love (act I, sc. 1) It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXI) Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep Did soon draw in agen. - Robert Herrick, Upon her Feet As if the wind, not she, did walk, Nor pressed a flower, nor bowed a stalk. - Ben Jonson Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Feet that run on willing errands! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing, l. 33) 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. - John Selden, Table Talk--Equity Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. - William Shakespeare Nay, her foot speaks. - William Shakespeare So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. - William Shakespeare Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi) There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v) O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (bk. I, canto X, st. 9) Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. - Sir John Suckling, Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 8) Feet like sunny gems on our English green. - Lord Alfred Tennyson The flower she touched on dipped and rose. - Lord Alfred Tennyson And feet like sunny gems on an English green. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Maud (pt. V, st. 2)
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