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12 Quotes for 'Feet' in the Database.
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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.
Author: Frank Gelett Burgess
Source: My Feet
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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!
Author: William Congreve
Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: The Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXI)
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Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Upon her Feet
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Feet that run on willing errands!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing, l. 33)
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'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.
Author: John Selden
Source: Table Talk--Equity
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There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
Nay, her foot speaks.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v)
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Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
Author: Edmund Spenser
Source: The Faerie Queene (bk. I, canto X, st. 9)
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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.
Author: Sir John Suckling
Source: Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 8)
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And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Maud (pt. V, st. 2)
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