Sentence examples for very feet from inspiring English sources

It is a good example of what a contemporary reviewer meant by Mayhew's "wonderful series of revelations suddenly disclosed in our own country, existing as it were, under our very feet".

It is tranquillity itself, here on a weed-strewn bank at the edge of the Everglades, until a nine-foot-long submarine of teeth and claws and leathery skin glides up to the very feet of the fishermen, and they tumble away like bowling pins.

Layer upon layer of the planet's crust is revealed, stratum by stratum: the Toroweap limestone, the Coconino sandstone, the Redwall limestone, the Tonto Group; the Vishnu schist deep down, close to two billion years old, nearly half the total age of the planet — the stuff that is under our very feet as we go about our lives is laid bare here.

What followed: arrests, interrogations, deportations to death camps, torture chambers under their very feet.

Glittering grains of sand beneath his very feet are raked by hand and smoothed for his approval -- nothing in his purview shall ever come asunder.

The fog that day made a smoke screen of my very feet and the cold bit harder than teeth on yak cheese -- don't even try it.

Two more-mainstream offerings nestle at the very foot of the Other openers chart: Goddess and Vampire Academy.

Five of them, there are, with the sixth delivery being kept off the stumps by the absolutely last-moment intervention of the very foot of White's bat.

Confronted by both visible signs of aging and chronic injuries to our bodies, we come face to face with changes that threaten us with losing our very footing in life.

Afghanistan today ranks at the very foot of the annual Transparency International Corruption Perception Index - yes, its government is widely seen as among the most corrupt in the world.

He had very sweaty feet and trench foot".