footless

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 Gould

• I said some footless thing or other to her the other day, and she turned me down, as Betty says.

  Smith College Stories | Josephine Dodge Daskam

• It 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 Bridge

• Portuguese naturalists also represent the passaros de sol as footless, their mode of flight concealing the extremities.

  Through the Malay Archipelago | Emily Richings

• It 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