Sentence examples similar to swift footing from inspiring English sources

what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?

Once more his swift feet bought time for him to throw a bullet deep to David Givens.

Yet they operated a swift foot courier system and a visual signaling system along the roadway from watchtower to watchtower.

Hasan Sas has been a delight, a deep-lying striker with swift feet and an even swifter mind.

The poet in this particular instance was the Shakespeare of Sonnet 65:... what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?

The trail's ascent was an exhausting slog, and the precarious downhill required careful balance as swift feet inevitably slid on the loose and stony ground.

Her giggling grandchildren played tag all around her, their swift feet sometimes cutting across the canvas, perilously close to the wet paint.

In his solo Mr. Ogalla prowls pantherlike across the stage, his swift feet pounding intricate rhythms with the force and rapidity of a machine gun.

(I mean the stock of often-repeated descriptive phrases, such as the "wine-dark" sea and Achilles "of the swift feet", which were probably used as metrically prefabricated units by the early oral bards who improvised these stories).

Mr. Norris, the great martial-arts, action-adventure, karate-wheeling movie star, was in town recently promoting his new film, "Sidekicks". The title refers to the asthmatic teen-age boy Mr. Norris befriends and inspires in the movie and to his own swift foot-in-the-belly predilections.

"In spacious Aphidna Theseus slew him in battle long ago for rich-haired Helen's sake". "Straightway Lynceus, trusting in his swift feet, made for Taygetus.