free-footed

Some military commanders say that's because they're on the run and they can't maintain a physical base anymore, but with an insurgency that's free-footed and becoming more adept at these asymmetric tactics, it's becoming more and more difficult for the military to defeat them in the classic sense.

Proxy Attack? 2008

An assurance of "some time this week" was not sufficiently definite from a free-footed housekeeper's point of view, and Mrs. Todd put aside all herb-gathering plans, and went through the various stages of expectation, provocation, and despair.

A Strange Sail 1910

Bostil's boatmen, Shugrue and Somers, stood knee-deep in the quicksand of the bar, and their efforts to keep free-footed were as strenuous as their handling of the sheep.

Wildfire Zane Grey 1905

Life must have been noble and solemn to those free-footed, loose-robed fathers of the human race, walking hand in hand with God under the great sky.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

So she raised the window, and flung the mocking-bird up into the air, and it came down and dropped into the old willow-tree beneath, and there set up a concert the Sabbath morning might have been proud of, when, in the corn-fields, the free-footed Saviour went plucking the milky ears.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

upon this problem which currently ranges free-footed.

Hamlet 3:3 2008

"some time this week" was not sufficiently definite from a free-footed housekeeper's point of view, and Mrs. Todd put aside all herb-gathering plans, and went through the various stages of expectation, provocation, and despair.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not. "

Princess Zara Ross Beeckman

It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not. "

The Last Woman Ross Beeckman

It will interest old and young, city-bound and free-footed, those who know animals and those who do not. "

The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain