1 "Good night, Matt," he said as she put her foot on the first step of the stairs.
2 As soon as the sledge was loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish.
3 Ethan's long strides grew more rapid with the accelerated beat of his thoughts, and as he reached the foot of School House Hill he caught sight of Hale's sleigh in the distance.
4 He went to the foot of the stairs and listened.
5 "It was right there I found your locket," he said, pushing his foot into a dense tuft of blueberry bushes.
6 Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
7 I don't believe but what you're the only stranger has set foot in that house for over twenty years.
8 Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
9 She sat down wearily, tucking one foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
10 Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
11 In his own mind, there had never been any doubt that he belonged, from the moment he first set foot on Tara.
12 High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
13 Every foot of ground, every tree and brook, every lane and bridle path reminded her of him.
14 She looked across the floor and tapped her foot to the music and her green eyes blazed so eagerly that they fairly snapped.
15 The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.