down-at-the-heels

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.