But instead, his foot ripped right through the shoe.
The National Weather Service has issued a beach hazards statement through Monday evening, warning of waves as high as 5 feet, rip currents and large "sneaker waves" that can occur without warning.
Later, after Mrs. Truckle confesses that she touched Sly first, the Chief, a whirlwind of repressed desire, throws himself at her feet, ripping off his jacket to expose his bare chest.
The baby flipping around in my tummy during yoga class is now a terror on two feet, ripping his way through toddlerhood, and his big sister, a chatty, goofy preschooler.
The tough band of tissue that wraps the foot rips away from its connection to the heel bone and, sometimes, compresses nerves.
The shuttle commander, Pamela A. Melroy, who was working the controls, saw the two-and-a-half-foot rip in the panel.
"You are out there in a competition in rough seas and bad weather," said Rocky Moffatt, 53, the owner of the 42-foot Rip Tide, as he unloaded the morning's haul of Dungeness crab.
The neologism was well chosen: for Deinonychus, alarmingly, was shown to have used a large, sickle-like talon on the second toe of each of its two hind feet to rip apart its prey.
In Sarasota County, 8 feet waves ripped a 20 feet section and three 50 feet concrete pilings off the Venice Municipal Fishing Pier, resulting in nearly $600,000 in damage.
He lifted his ski pole to give a warning, but it was already too late: under the skiers' weight, a chunk of snow 10 feet wide and 20 feet long ripped from the mountain at Jornet's feet.
Break the seams by running a full course across the length, then run a 2 foot (0.6 m) rip with the grain running the same way on top.
