How To Use Soft-footed In A Sentence
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Here and there came a stream of warm light through an open door, and within, the Mongolians were gathered round the gambling-tables, playing fan-tan, or leaving the seductions of their favourite pastime, to glide soft-footed to the many cook-shops, where enticing-looking fowls and turkeys already cooked were awaiting purchasers.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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The girl felt it in every nerve; it was as though some soft-footed, noiseless, shapeless creature, whose presence she only dimly divined, was approaching nearer -- _nearer_.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
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She left him standing in the hall and followed the soft-footed, smiling Letje up the stairs; at least she was going to see something of the house.
Politics 101
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Not to forget the cynism which comes along soft-footed and of course the black humor.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Not to forget the cynism which comes along soft-footed and of course the black humor.
Today in Fantasy: November 25, 2009
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Rebecca Yeastman was certainly not sensitive, or she would have realized earlier that behind almost every curtain lurked some such watcher, soft-footed, noiseless, wakeful.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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He soft-footed across the corridor, Serri at his back.
Songs of Love & Death
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So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Sadly, I still sit alone watching my hockey and “only” with a bottle of foot cream can I share my excitement with my book reading and now soft-footed wife.
Hockey Nights in Canada « Reading Copy
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She opened her mouth to call again, but instead, obeying she knew not what primeval instinct, went, soft-footed, towards the kitchen.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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THOUSANDS of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheepone by one going up the hill and over the fenceone by one four-footed pattering up and overone by one wiggling their stub tails as they take the short jump and go overone by one silently unless for the multitudinous drumming of their hoofs as they move on and go overthousands and thousands of them in the grey haze of evening just after sundownone by one slanting in a long line to pass over the hill
Sheep
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Then would Kim return soft-footed through the soft dust to his master under the shadow of a mango-tree or the thinner shade of a white Doon siris, to eat and drink at ease.
Kim
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Overcome with the vapours and attended by some soft-footed medical practitioner who specializes in `women's ailments".
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Then he stole across the tiny meadow, pausing once and again to listen, and faded away out of the cãnon like a wraith, soft-footed and without sound.
All Gold Cañon
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The Trunchbull started advancing slow and soft-footed upon Rupert in the manner of a tigress stalking a small deer.
