It was plain the notion of footsore penance had taken vigorous hold of his imagination and his love of adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

It was so footsore that its feet had to be bound up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

His friend Dante was footsore with exile, halfway over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

He was lame and footsore; also he was weak from want of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

Of footsore and weary pilgrims who had sought the sacred heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference

The others were scattered along the route, footsore and worn out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference

The multitude who came to hear Him were tired, footsore, and hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

They came in five days later without accident, the footsore and weary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference

That evening found our hero at Mrs. Price's, footsore and downhearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Weary and footsore and hungry, he stopped one day before the Franciscan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

A few minutes later two homesick and footsore girls stumbled into her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

He came home tired and footsore, and went wearily to bed after a half-eaten supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

They came in, wearied, footsore, in rags, and often sick and nearly dead from starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

He was muddy and footsore; his face looked haggard and old, and it was lined with deep furrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Cross] Reference

In the morning Cranor comes, but his men are footsore, without rations, and completely exhausted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference

They walked and walked until, exhausted and footsore, many a one dropped down along the road-side.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

Even had Alfred not been footsore, the snoring of the other would have made sleep impossible to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"And I," said Kenny, "tramping the footsore, weary miles always with the hope of a letter and a clue!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

The cattle were found close to the camp, but so footsore that it was impossible to move them homewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

He arrived in Bristowe footsore and ragged, and there came nigh to starving before he found employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

"Perhaps he is now lying sick and footsore on the side of some highway, without a friend, without money.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

The big dog led his pursuer deliberately on, and Bobby, heated and footsore, had no thought but to follow.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

He wished to steal into his old home under the covering of the twilight, he was so footsore and bedraggled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of the Wind] Reference

Montreuil-sur-Mer — On to Hesdin; being footsore, Author insists on having a carriage — Drives to Arras.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Long after dark, weary and footsore and famished, we stumbled back three miles to our chosen camping ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

One day in March he reappeared with his tattered and footsore followers, some of them carrying loads of buffalo-meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

John Broom was footsore when he reached the coast, but that keen, life-giving smell had drawn him on and held him up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

I came in to supper hungry, weary, footsore, sunburnt, dirty, -- happier, in short, than I have been for a twelvemonth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

I have fed many a poor, footsore "boy in gray," but never in a single instance heard a despondent word from one of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantation Sketches] Reference

Thus footsore, battered, and with empty stomachs, these fellows had to march for miles and miles to escape the enemy's grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

The day of his funeral, Van Haubitz, footsore and emaciated, and reduced to his last pfenning, walked wearily into the city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

On the third night after my departure from the Hall I trudged, weary and footsore, into Bristowe, and sought a bed at the White.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

There was no falling off in the cheerful endeavour, nor was any man so tired or footsore that he would be content to be left behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Guides] Reference

I don't know what makes automakers think that a footsore crowd of working journalists wants to hear this stuff at ten in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meeting the Chevrolet triplets] Reference

Wearied, unfed and footsore, they were; but the scent of battle rested and refreshed them as they went into the thickest of the fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

The front was now quite quiet, and after many falls, footsore and tired, I came to a large wood (the Bois de Logeost) a little before dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference

As soon as friendly darkness again returned, we moved forward, weary, hungry, and footsore, still governed in our course by the North Star.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

I thought it was safe here to take the cars, for I was footsore and weary, nor did I get away from Keene as fast and as far as I wanted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference

In the course of an hour he returned with the truant seated by his side, dusty and footsore, but otherwise as fresh as when he had started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference