Word: feet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...point she discovered that I had driven by the cross-road where we should have turned. There was nothing to be done but to turn around. The road was narrow, and I had to back. The gray old patriarch, in attempting the reverse motion, could not manage his huge feet, tripped, sat on his haunches a moment dejectedly, then helplessly rolled over on his side, drew a long breath, closed his eyes, and lay motionless...
...ribs, and we both called loudly on Hercules to aid us. Slowly and painfully the horse arose, with even more difficulty and far less grace than his wooden brother who clambered over the walls of Troy. Finally, thanks to my aunt's energetic thrusts, we got him on his feet again, and in due time proceeded on our journey; but the discussion of Harvard's elective system was indefinitely postponed...
...proxy for the moon, who was on duty at the antipodes. I had nothing to say to the gawky youth that pulled me across the water to the buttress on the further side of the estuary; but sent him back, and clambered and groped my way alone some sixty feet up the steep hillside. Dirty, tired, and out of breath, I reached the roadway, and a few minutes' walk brought me to the spot where I calculated the train, as required by State laws, must stop. Lighting a cigarette, I sat down on some lumber piled alongside the track...
...fall meeting of the Williams Athletic Association was more successful than usual. The winners of the Pig Back Race (25 yards) made the remarkable time of 13 1/2 seconds. S. H. Reed, '78, came off victorious in the Potato Race (twenty potatoes, five feet apart). His time was 21 minutes, 51 seconds...
...flowers that spring beneath our feet...