hand and foot

How to use hand and foot in a sentence

• The rocks were steep, but so broken as to offer good hand-and foot-hold.

  Adventures on the Roof of the World | Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond

• Their beautiful scales flash scarlet, blue, and gold, and their little hand-and-foot fins are ever trembling and waving.

  The Log of the Sun | William Beebe

• The time's all too short, and I'm bound hand-and-foot here, and can do nought.

  A Girl of the People | L. T. Meade

• You will find my sister in his room, for she has nursed him hand-and-foot this two months back.

  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Such a system of hand-and-foot control has become general in aeroplanes.

  The Aeroplane | Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper