footless
[ foot-lis ]
Origin of footless
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How to use footless in a sentence
He classes dragons (which he considers as essentially winged animals) either as footless or possessing two or four feet.
Mythical Monsters | Charles GouldI said some footless thing or other to her the other day, and she turned me down, as Betty says.
Smith College Stories | Josephine Dodge DaskamIt is a sort of nautical sister of the fabled bird of Paradise, which was footless, and never alighted out of the air.
Journal of an African Cruiser | Horatio BridgePortuguese naturalists also represent the passaros de sol as footless, their mode of flight concealing the extremities.
Through the Malay Archipelago | Emily RichingsIt is a footless thing to spend valuable time in idle gossip, for the gossip is seldom a successful business man.
Dollars and Sense | Col. Wm. C. Hunter
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