"Footer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... childish?' I says. 'A six-footer like you that can shoot straight with either hand, and yet ain't got generosity enough to ease the feelings of a poor little devil that's ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips
... we called on Governor Neptune, who lived in a little "ten-footer," one of the humblest of them all. Personalities are allowable in speaking of public men, therefore I will give the particulars of our visit. He was a-bed. When we entered the room, which was one half of the house, he was sitting on the side of the bed. There was a clock hanging ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
... Hollinger stared in amazement, then laughed. "Thirty-footer? You're tangled up, Jerry. Well, he can wait ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney
... while the men came down, and stood in the companion-way passage, to be overhauled. Most of the foreigners had gone in the boat, but two of the Americans that remained were uncommonly fine-looking men, and were both prime seamen. One, whose name was Thomas Cook, was a six-footer, and had the air of a thorough sea-dog. He filled the lieutenant's eye mightily, and Cook was very coolly told to gather his dunnage, as he was wanted. Cook pointed to his protection, but the lieutenant answered—"Oh! ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper
... is Ein-foetingr, one-footer. The mediaeval belief in a country in which there lived a race of unipeds was not unknown in Iceland. It has been suggested by Vigfusson that Thorvald being an important personage, his death must be adorned in some way. It is a singular fact that Jacques Cartier ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... servant-of-all-work. She fed the pigs, herded the cattle, assisted in planting potatoes and digging peat from the bog, and was undisputed mistress of the poultry-yard. As she grew up to womanhood, the importance of her labours increased. A better reaper in the harvest-field, or footer of turf in the bog, could not be found in the district, or a woman more thoroughly acquainted with the management of cows and the rearing of young cattle; but here poor Jenny's ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... old one too long," a red-shirted six-footer bellowed. "Fresh blood for me. We want ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... aimin' to," remarked Yellin' Kid somewhat tartly and in rather grieved tones. "Come out of that, you soap footer!" he cried to his steed. "What do you mean, ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... "not only in footer but in everything. The place seems absolutely rotten. It's bad enough losing all our matches, or nearly all. Did you hear that Ripton took thirty-seven points off us last term? And we only just managed to beat Greenburgh by ...
— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse |
Words linked to "Footer" : marcher, foot, reeler, traveler, staggerer, note, limper, trudger, nondriver, stamper, footnote, linear unit, linear measure, notation, swaggerer, peripatetic, hiker, ambler, saunterer, combining form, strider, trampler, passer, plodder, wayfarer, jaywalker, tripper, stalker, rambler, stomper, tramp, waddler, tramper, hobbler, traveller, shuffler, parader, stumbler, totterer, stroller, passer-by, annotation, passerby, slogger |
