1 The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
2 If Suellen wanted to go visiting she could go afoot.
3 The railroad had carried the remains of Johnston's army from North Carolina to Atlanta and dumped them there, and from Atlanta they began their pilgrimages afoot.
4 Most of Pitty's friends, like herself, were afoot these days.
5 The town was full of Yankee soldiers, on horses, afoot, in army wagons, loafing on the street, reeling out of barrooms.
6 Something was afoot and she did not know about it.
7 The sounds of the alarm were, therefore, hardly uttered before two hundred men were afoot, and ready for the battle or the chase, as either might be required.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 8 Collect what force you can, for there's game afoot that must be hunted hard, and will turn to bay.
9 I was up betimes in the morning, but Holmes was afoot earlier still, for I saw him as I dressed, coming up the drive.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 10 I had always proposed to myself to get him well down the river in the boat; certainly well beyond Gravesend, which was a critical place for search or inquiry if suspicion were afoot.
11 "I wonder what is afoot between them," said Chichikov to himself.
12 Some make ready to march afoot over the plains; some, mounted on tall horses, ride amain in clouds of dust.