put foot in
Example Sentences
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"One of the whitest men that ever put foot in stirrup," said Fraser a few minutes later to Gerrard.
From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke
Things have looked better, during the last five or six years, than they have done since Cromwell first put foot in Ireland.
From Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
But I will never put foot in it after father and mother are gone.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The hybrid is restive, and will not permit him to put foot in the stirrup.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
Told me it would be the first time he'd put foot in the house for four years.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
