under-foot

Here he was soiling his purple boots as he crushed the filth under-foot; and he had not all these men before him at the end of a catapult to make them fly into fragments!

Salammbo 2003

He pretended to get indignant when the other guys left spilled beer on the vomit-colored carpet in the common room or ground Cheetos into microscopic orange dust under-foot.

Sam Francine Pascal 2001

Detecting a rising rustle of leaf litter being crushed under-foot, Adjami rose from his cross-legged seat.

Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

With each step Evan smashed dozens of them under-foot, but there was nothing he could do to prevent it.

Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

Crystal shells crunched under-foot as he stepped off the rock and their bright green growths hastened to regenerate the protective transparent bubbles.

Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

"Is that your interpretation of thunder rumbling under-foot?"

Survivors McCaffrey, Anne 1984

"Oh, but it's wet under-foot, Mervyn," remarked Bunny wisely, "and it's a bad thing to get your feet wet -- Sophie screams fearfully at me if I put my toe out, even long after the rain has stopped."

Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children Clara Mulholland

There was nothing about them but a spreading mellowness and the baked turf under-foot.

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

All about, under-foot and growling if they were disturbed, were the ugly dogs.

Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace Alice B. Emerson

He treads on all the flounces, runs against all the clerks, knocks over all the children, and is generally under-foot.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various