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  • Xan didn’t even say another word before hotfooting it back to Ma.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • Xan didn’t even say another word before hotfooting it back to Ma.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • Xan didn’t even say another word before hotfooting it back to Ma.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • News from Washington, where, following hot on the heels of William Hague and George Osborne, a formidable group of 18 senior Tory women will be hotfooting it to the American capital next week (followed by myself, three weeks later!).

    Tory Women Off to Washington 2006

  • They could look over the treetops to the buildings on Fifth Avenue, the unbroken taupe facade, and then to the mansards and temple-tops at the western edge of the park, and Klara imagined the whistling doormen, the taxis hotfooting past—she loved the showy yellow coats of New York cabs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They could look over the treetops to the buildings on Fifth Avenue, the unbroken taupe facade, and then to the mansards and temple-tops at the western edge of the park, and Klara imagined the whistling doormen, the taxis hotfooting past—she loved the showy yellow coats of New York cabs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They could look over the treetops to the buildings on Fifth Avenue, the unbroken taupe facade, and then to the mansards and temple-tops at the western edge of the park, and Klara imagined the whistling doormen, the taxis hotfooting past—she loved the showy yellow coats of New York cabs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He showered and pulled on some faded khaki Bermudas, a white T-shirt, and some flip-flops, and he was off, hotfooting it down a shadow-strewn sidewalk, enjoying the flower-scented tropical air and the nearly perfect solitude of the deserted neighborhood.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • Then Wednesday, I'm hotfooting it to Budapest I think it will be chilly if London weather is anything to go by to World Telemedia where I'm going to be talking on Friday about mobile and print media.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Helen Keegan 2006

  • Then Wednesday, I'm hotfooting it to Budapest I think it will be chilly if London weather is anything to go by to World Telemedia where I'm going to be talking on Friday about mobile and print media.

    It's going to be a busy week next week Helen Keegan 2006

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