at one's feet
Example Sentences
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He has approvingly quoted Gustave Flaubert’s line that by “gazing down into the black pit at one’s feet, one remains calm.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
And when the flowers fall, “the sky blooms on the ground,” an unexpected burst of color at one’s feet.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023
Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing at one's feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an odd sensation, to stare down at one’s feet and see moving clouds.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
"How people come and go in one's lives, like the waves of the restless sea, now breaking at one's feet, now receding, now——" "Only to return," interrupts he, quickly.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
