Read full poem →The livelong day,
We beat afoot the northward way
We had travelled times before.
Dictionary Entry
(predicative) That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. afootafoot setafoot goafoot movementafoot already
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Poetry examples for “afoot”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →partner that I had gone to school with him in Ohio, that I had mailed
a postal last Sunday from Florida telling him I would arrive afoot
in three weeks,--but here I was, already. The word was carried with
Read full poem →I had a double reason for hurrying on. My rules as a mendicant afoot
were against cities and railroads. I flattered myself I was called and
Read full poem →_Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and
penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
Read full poem →No longer our pulses were cold.
Though half of my troops were afoot,
(For the great who had borne them were slain)