He had the satisfaction of driving his two heels viciously against the person of the man who had held them the last ten minutes, receiving a savage kick in return.
A score of hearts swelled with righteous pride and as many scabbards rattled as heels clicked and hands went up in salute.
He was face to face with the girl of royal blood that the story books had created for him long, long ago, and he was doing just what he had always intended to do: falling heels over head and hopelessly in love with her.
I thought you might have seen my heels as I disappeared.
Sir Vagabond, blissfully swinging his heelsand munching his venison, smiled amiably upon the yard men as he passed them by.
Farmer Klausen gave a yell, threw up both his hands and went heels over head into the dust, while Billy, scampering over him, ran as hard as he could for the hills.
When Billy pulled the strap in two, the jerk of it sent him head over heels and by the time he had scrambled to his feet again the waiter was half way to the back door of the inn.
The more confused he grew, the harder he jumped and struggled to get out of the curtain, until at the very end of the hall, he came to a stairway and went down it head over heels to the next floor.
A sharp yelp behind her heels made Tiny jump half out of her hide, and then King, laughing at the trick he had played on her, sprang from behind her and over her stall to inquire about Billy.
Then Billy, feeling fine from this nice bit of exercise, kicked up his heels and galloped on.
With click of heels on the pavingstones boys in tunics are dancing eyes under long black lashes flash as they dance to the drum of tambourines beaten with elbow and palm.
Streams of dirty water poured from the roofs, and in the streets the miry snow sluiced slowly downhill or stuck on passing boot-heels in treacherous pads.
The glasses clinked together, and then clashed upon the floor, where the men set theirheels upon them.
Close on the heels of these reflections a vivid recollection rose before Rallywood's mind of the first night he had met her.
He stuck his heels into the horse's side, but Rallywood still held the bridle.
The horse, surprised, and terrified by the noise, and feeling the rider digging his heels into his sides, reared, carrying Warry off his feet.
Porter kicked his heels together gently and watched his visitor with eyes in which there was no trace of humor; but Saxton saw that he was expected to laugh.
And then they thinks, when their heels and their heads is all right, they've got up above the rest of we.
No studies neglected were on her conscience; there did occur to her some large holes in the heels of her stockings.
Folks that wearsheels to their shoes," put in Mrs. Purcell.
He seems to have entirely overlooked the fact that he was to spend this vacation being pretty useful on the farm, and not sighing at your heels dressed in the height of fashion as he understands it.
I never left Jenkins's heels one second, and he said I was much more of a nuisance than Thomas, because Thomas caught on to things naturally, and I asked questions all the time.
There had evidently been confidences, so they scented trouble and took to their heels when I had been introduced to them somewhat informally as a friend of Dorothea's, my name not being mentioned.
My courage is oozing out at the heels of my shoes.
But he had presumed that incident to be a deliberate brutality; Ten Euyck had always appeared to govern his instincts masterfully or to walk on them, indeed, with heels of iron.
His slower train had followed on the very heels of that malign and radiant red-haired changeling, whose mysterious brew he was at last to taste for himself.
At his heels came the superintendent, carrying the keys.
From the cabin came the sound of a sharp fall, then a man cried out, and on the heels of it Pulz darted from the cabin, screaming horribly.
The clown has trod upon the courtier's heels till the clown is clown no longer, and the courtier has hardly a court in which he may dangle his sword-knot.
Good morning," said Hugh Stanbury, turning on his heels and walking away.
Mr. Kelly was tickled by the man's impudence, and turned slowly round on his heels to give him an opportunity of admiring his back.
The pious AEneas knew that very well, Mr. Kelly; but then the worthy army-chaplain had not a Scrope upon his heels for the best part of a twelvemonth.
I think, George, I will walk along with you as far as Soho, since I have three hours to kick my heels in.
Mr. Kelly clicked his heels together, bent over the hand and kissed it reverentially.
Then he drove his heels into his horse's flanks and so rode down between the chestnut trees.
Meanwhile the Duke of Ormond's messenger arrived from Corunna, and kicked his heels on the boulevard until Mr. Kelly recovered his senses and summoned Mr. Philabe to his aid.
Then they took to their heelsagain and fled whispering and laughing down the lane, only, however, to return with the next gust of wind and repeat their impertinence.
For there was Janet hangin' frae a nail beside the auld aik cabinet: her heid aye lay on her shouther, her een were steeked, the tongue projeckit frae her mouth, and her heels were twa feet clear abune the floor.
Well, I never said she was seaworthy," replied the captain; "I only said she could show her blooming heels to anything afloat.
And for all that, I was close on the heels of an absurd adventure.
Two incidents, following one on the heels of the other, tended to produce an advance in civilisation by the means (as so commonly happens) of a passing appeal to savage standards.
I telephoned the captain to go at it head down and heels in air; he answered like a little man; and I guess he's getting around.
At his heels came the six men who had, up to this point, been standing in a group near their horses.
Another month passed, and by this time Dick could, without any great fatigue, squat on his heels for an hour at a time.
I wonder, Mother, you never told me that, above all things, I should have to learn to squat on my heelsfor any time.
Shamelessness, they hold, treads close on the heels of ingratitude, and thus ingratitude is the ringleader and chief instigator to every kind of baseness.
Gadatas and his men, seeing the gates swing wide, darted in, hard on the heels of the others who fled back again, and they chased them at the sword's point into the presence of the king.
Cyrus seeing the charge, darted forward himself, and swept to the van, leading it with Cyaxares close at his heels and the rest close behind them.
But now the Assyrians saw their own men borne down on them in rout, with Cyrus and his comrades at their heels in full career, while Astyages and his cavalry were already within bowshot.
And he jumped up from the rug where he had been lying at his mother's feet, and looked as if he were ready to turn head over heels for joy!
And as he saw the tall narrow figure of Father Mackworth creeping slowly along, dragging his heels as he went, he said, "Poor old fellow, I hope he will live to forgive me.
Gus wouldn't walk up the steps; but he put his two heels together, and jumped up them one at a time, and Flora walked backwards, looking at him sarcastically.
Better this than dawdling about at theheels of a dandy, or sitting on a wheelbarrow in a mews!
Mr. Blair, in a friendly tone, knocking his heels about on the stool.
I sat down on the rock where George must have sat while beginning his frugal luncheon, and I put my heels into the marks of his, and, without knowing why, I began to sob like a child who has lost his mother.
George Bowring had been seven years with me at the fine old school of Shrewsbury, and trod on my heels from form to form so closely that, when I became at last the captain of the school, he was second to me.
And he did, almost at the heelsof his herald; scrupulously dressed, upright, handsome, and courteous as usual.
Vernet was tired with his long promenade at the heels of the two sham beggars, and he resolved to give the mansion a brief reconnoitring glance and then to turn the watch over to a subordinate.
The shout of the gipsy sounded to his ear like the cry of the dead whom he had left: he dashed his heels into the sides of the reluctant horse, and was in the stream.
One short whistle and they are at their master's heels again.
Such a keen sportsman, it was explained, was better in our service than kicking hisheels about the village and on his father's farm as an independent gentleman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
