I swiped my foot across the ground, feeling for rocks, roots and voids.
She likes the big camera and tripod because "there's something about being solid on the ground, feeling the landscape".
The anti-independence campaigners believe they are on strong ground, feeling that Salmond's call for a currency union is the strongest example of his strategy of "de-risking" independence.
The merit of poetry was its feeling for the common ground, feeling in both senses, and I remember imagining as he spoke that a good novelist might share the poet's healthy ambivalence.
(I should explain that my fascination with these huge creatures stems from watching the great Zero Mostel morph from human to rhino — pawing the ground, feeling his horn growing, roaring in shock — in the 1961 version of the Ionesco play "Rhinoceros". Unforgettable. Obviously).
But what impact are people on the ground feeling?
"Hopefully they have left the ground feeling positive, not just about myself but the whole team for the season ahead".
Eyes on all sides innocently devour your presence as you inadvertently step onto the earthy ground, feeling the crunch underneath your flats.
