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• Footmen - Footmen (See Running Footmen.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 ...
• Amy Lowell: A Ballad of Footmen - Now what in the name of the sun and the stars Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars?
• Amy Lowell: War Pictures - Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the head of th
• Amy Lowell: The Overgrown Pasture - You want to know what's the matter with me, do yer? My! ain't men blinder'n moles? It ain't nothin' new, be sure o' that. Why, ef you'd had eyes you'd