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Example sentences for "under foot"

  • If this was not required to be done of me out of love to my king, I would much rather trample it under foot.

  • Be informed in this way so as to judge of these things; where love and friendship are wanting, there, certainly, all works are condemned and trodden under foot.

  • Charlotte carelessly trod it under foot, never dreaming that these crushed blossoms could have told a tale that might have served her as a warning.

  • My disinterested love for you, Frederick William, is in their eyes a crime, and they accuse me of having committed another crime, for the purpose of tearing me from your heart and treading me under foot like a noxious weed!

  • He wished to be alone with his grief, alone in the trying hour when he would be compelled to tear the fair blossom from his heart, and tread it under foot as though it were a poisonous weed.

  • He would not have it under foot, he scorned it, he abhorred it; it stood not with his religion, credit, nor conscience.

  • It is from thenceforth good for nothing, but To be cast out, and trodd'n under foot.

  • Perhaps you’ll want to trample me under foot after my examination to-morrow.

  • She will cast me off to-morrow and trample me under foot.

  • Every one else may punish me and trample me under foot, every one, every one, not excepting any one.

  • So now nothing could be easier than to make him accept the two hundred roubles by to-morrow, for he has already vindicated his honor, tossed away the money, and trampled it under foot.

  • Thus were the federal alliances trodden under foot by those very persons who aspired to the name of conservatives.

  • For thou hast plucked thine own crown of integrity from thy brow, and hast trampled it under foot.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both directions; direct popular; important part; small aperture; this manner; turn the; under color; under different; under fire; under glass; under her; under normal; under orders; under ordinary; under parts; under pressure; under sail; under side; under similar; under stress; under the firm name; under the same circumstances; under wing; understand something; understand that; understood from