put foot in
Example Sentences
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The officer hastily fastened on a spur which he had brought with him, put foot in stirrup, and mounted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Told me it would be the first time he'd put foot in the house for four years.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by MacGowan, Alice
No czar had ever put foot in them.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
Frantz, in a tart voice, "but this woman shall not put foot in my house."
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de
But when Gilmore led a pony round, I know it needed all the pluck they could muster to put foot in stirrup.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon
