foot-space

Still in the van stood Edward the Long, bold and eager; he spoke vaunting words, how that he would not flee a foot-space or turn back, now that his lord lay dead.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

But Halfman, never a one to follow tamely, with an easy stretch of his long limbs, swung himself lightly beside his uncivil companion, and without breathing himself in the least kept steadily a foot-space ahead of him.

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

Schwindsucht -- we haven't the word -- he found it pleasant to think of the resistless element which left one hardly a foot-space amidst the yielding sand; of the old beds of lost rivers, surviving now only as deeper channels in the sea; of the remains of a certain ancient town, which within men's memory had lost its few remaining inhabitants, and, with its already empty tombs, dissolved and disappeared in the flood.

Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

Schwindsucht -- we haven't the word -- he found it pleasant to think of the resistless element which left, one hardly a foot-space amidst the yielding sand; of the old beds of lost rivers, surviving now only as deeper channels in the sea; of the remains of a certain ancient town, which within men's memory had lost its few remaining inhabitants, and, with its already empty tombs, dissolved and disappeared in the flood.

Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

The rest of the 6,000-square foot-space is divided into individual rooms, like a gallery hung with mannequins (above) and a library lined with asymmetrical shelving.

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And in another moment, another fat Mexican in a black suit and a little black hat was lowering himself into Villiers’ foot-space.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Was the fat fellow free to sit between Villiers’ feet, or was Villiers free to keep his foot-space?

The Plumed Serpent 2003