light-foot

• “It went with Birdalone as Habundia had foretold, for she came home to the house glad of semblance, flushed and light-foot, so that she was lovely and graceful beyond her wont.”

  The Water of the Wondrous Isles

• “Where oh where, he wondered, are my light-foot lads?”

  Simon & Schuster: Again to Carthage

• “Thus far she still walked slim and light-foot, her condition betrayed by no more than a fullness gathering in the breasts.”

  The Stars Are Also Fire

• “That was her philosophy as she went, light-foot, through the blue-ground heaps.”

  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa

• “THERE came a little light-foot breeze a-dancing down the bay,”

  The Isle of Apple-trees

• “Went the light-foot Mysian maids, calling Hylas home.”

  The Drift of Pinions

• “Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:”

  Act IV. Scene IV. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third

• “After this simple introduction from the greater personage, his light-foot, volatile, graceful minister takes Alberich in hand and practising confidently upon his intoxicated conceit of power, his pride in the cleverness which had contrived ring and wishing-cap, uses him like a puppet of which all the strings should be in his hand.”

  The Wagnerian Romances

• “So she went home light-foot with her sorrows beginning to fade and her heart beating happy again.”

  The Torch and Other Tales

• “A door even was pointed at, smiled and winked at, passed by light-foot as they went along the gallery.”

  The Forest Lovers

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