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noun Furniture.

a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.

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In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.
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Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
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It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall.
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Marabella, now licking her lollipop and tapping her foot, appears unfazed.
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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!
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We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
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We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.
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But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.
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