Footful

Mrs. Terrapin, having selected a place to her liking, moistens the hard clay, then alternately with the sharp claws of her hind feet, begins scraping out a hole about two inches across, lifting the moist earth, footful after footful.

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Why should the owl treat the cuckoo thus? I have not the faintest idea. But she does, and once she clutched a footful of lavender feathers.

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Often he would draw back one huge handful (or footful) of viney soil, only to leave it there while he looked and listened.

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I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.

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