Word: feet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...With feet and wings he darted...
...dashed up to her feet...
...advantage of tide and wind. During flood-tide there must be a current of one mile an hour at the least, and by avoiding half of that by keeping near the wall, during the ten minutes on the home stretch, a gain (if these premises are right) of 264 feet would be made. When the tide is running out at the rate of four or five miles an hour in mid stream, still greater loss or gain might be made by the steering...
...trees and the grass has started from its long rest, so that we again have a pleasant view from our windows. The greenness of the grass-plots, however, only renders more evident the bareness of their edges, where all the grass has been worn away by the feet of those students who are already asserting the privilege of American citizens to despise all warnings to "Keep off the grass." It would not seem too much to expect that the students should do all that is in their power to make the Yard look well, especially when all that is required...
TRINITY will send the youngest crew to the regatta this year. Their average age is 19 1/2 years; weight, 157 pounds; height, 5 feet 9 inches...