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And sure-foot as a goat he carried her over the dark hills by the tracks he knew, for roads there were none, and his arms ached with his burden, but he would not wake her till they stood at her father's gates.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And sure-foot as a goat he carried her over the dark hills by the tracks he knew, for roads there were none, and his arms ached with his burden, but he would not wake her till they stood at her father's gates.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

'He would go sure-foot along that little ledge,' said Nance, pointing as she spoke; 'then out through the breach and down by yonder buttress.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

But the Giants stormed 53 yards, mostly through the air, for a tally, and then sure-foot Tilly Manton, who had converted twenty-seven times without a miss, failed to kick the extra point.

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‘He would go sure-foot along that little ledge,’ said Nance, pointing as she spoke; ‘then out through the breach and down by yonder buttress.

Lay Morals 2005

The patient and sure-foot mule of the Alps may be trusted in the most slippery paths.] [Footnote 122a: The war was longer protracted than this sentence would lead us to suppose: it was not till defeated more than once that Igmazen yielded Amm. xxix.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765