Feet

Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen.

Feet are an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. They are the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails. The human foot and ankle is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing more than 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 286.

• 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.
  • Gelett Burgess, My Feet.

• 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!
  • William Congreve, Love for Love, Act I, scene 1.

• 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.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Volume I, Chapter XXI.

• Better a barefoot than none.
  • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• Her pretty feet
  Like snails did creep
  A little out, and then,
  As if they played at bo-peep
  Did soon draw in agen.
  • Robert Herrick, Upon her Feet.

• Feet that run on willing errands!
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part X. Hiawatha's Wooing, line 33.

• '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.
  • John Selden, Table Talk, Equity.

• Nay, her foot speaks.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 5, line 56.

• O, so light a foot
  Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 6, line 16.

• O happy earth,
  Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book I, Canto X, Stanza 9.

• 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.
  • Sir John Suckling, Ballad Upon a Wedding, Stanza 8.

• And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), Part V, Stanza 2.