How To Use Footle In A Sentence
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For the next 45 minutes, the girls and I footle about in the kiddie park, playing tag, and hide-and-seek, and find-the-cicada.
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I suppose you'll just footle, then," his friend had summed it up, and left him, because it was half-past six, and they had dinner at that strange hour.
The Lee Shore
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Models in Veronica Lake hairdos strutted confidently down the runaway in armoured jackets and darted skirts over ribbed cashmere footless stockings and stiletto pumps.
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They bustled along talking to their invisible friends, or stood abstracted on the kerb the fingers of one hand fiddling away in the palm of the other, or, like iAnna footled fanatically with a filmy square-foot.
The Guardian World News
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(I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, "he said in parenthesis.)" Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people.
Tono Bungay
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They learnt to take themes which did not sound exactly like the subjects of a fugue; they laid out their first and their second, and then they did not know what on earth to do, and footled and stumbled till it was time for the recapitulation; so that Haydn himself said the worst of the young men was that they could not stick long enough at anything to work it out, and no sooner began one thing than they wanted to be off to another.
Haydn
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Then there is: "A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot.
Such, Such Was Eric Blair
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In footless traverse through ghast heights of sky, 5
"In Vision I Roamed"
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Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, bucked conventional wisdom when she approached hosiery mills with the idea of manufacturing footless pantyhose.
Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage
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Thus we see that in the Synaptidae the thick and irregular calcareous bodies of the Holothurians have been modified and transformed in various ways in adaptation to the footlessness of these animals, and to the peculiar conditions of their life, and we must conclude that the earlier stages of these changes presented themselves to the processes of selection in the form of microscopic variations.
Evolution in Modern Thought
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He has been dubbed Canada's David Lynch, which is a lazy way of saying he likes to footle around beneath the facade of respectability.
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What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him.
Children of the Whirlwind
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This is not a major refit, just an up-gun of GURPS Horror, 3rd Ed. to the GURPS 4E rules, but I have been granted 16 or so more pages to footle around in.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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I can't stand his 'Theatre' -- that's footle -- but the big things -- 'Le Pere Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,'
The Fortunate Youth
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Not only that, but the sort of things he would say in his sleep would be things like, "The opening up of trade routes to the mumble mumble burble was the turning point for the growth of empire in the snore footle mumble.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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I think we can manage the kind of footler he's been sendin 'over here lately, but if Lensch or some lad like that were to choose to turn up I wouldn't say what might happen.
Mr. Standfast
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(a) what is simply without some power, but also (b) what is adapted by nature to have it but has not it or has it only in a very low degree, as when we say that a species of swallow is 'footless' or that
ON THE SOUL
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(But if I broke it down, I wouldn't be such a footler as to write plays and poems, would you?)
Captivity
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For the last fourteen years the bulk of policy debate has been not about how we address the organic issues facing an economy and society like that of the UK, but how we footle around at the edges of it, creating projects that may, tangentially, affect someone somewhere, but in all probability not.
Arts & Ecology blog
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But time and again, she was told footless panty hose was simply a bad idea.
Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage
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After eating this delicate morsel it devours the honey in the cells of the bee and changes into a white, cylindrical, nearly footless grub, and after it is full-fed, and has assumed a supposed "pupa" state, the skin, without bursting, incloses a kind of hard "pupa" skin, which is very similar in outline to the former larva, within whose skin is found a whitish larva which directly changes into the true pupa.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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The client has wheeled himself uncomfortably close to me, his footless leg dressed in a brightly colored argyle sock.
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Now that is just the kind of delight in the senses that scares those who would control the contours of pleasure, and those who feel footless, out of control when such pleasure -- not its simulation -- wells up.
ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010
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For jazz and tap classes, girls and boys generally are required to wear footless black tights over their regulation leotards.
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This doll was homemade, it was obvious, stitched together from now-turquoise and pink scraps, with a round head, handless arms, and footless legs.
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This calm'd his cares, footled with his future feme,
The Works of the English Poets
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This is only the 13th time that I have footled about, gone for walks, tried to start other things, sketched hollow-sounding plans for the coming months, stared blackly at the ceiling and generally failed to avoid the constant, low-level nausea generated by waiting to hear.
The Guardian World News
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Given the car's brick outhouse aerodynamics it footles along at a fair old clip, only the odd crosswind unsettling matters.
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And the broken stones of the Gothic ruin, in the freshness and rawness of their ruin, seemed to be bleeding out human aspiration, spilling it footlessly upon the dead earth.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
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Many of them are footless as a result of outrageous levels of alcohol.
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Know, you footler!" growled Smathers, disgustedly.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
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Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it?
Acton's Feud A Public School Story
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More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
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Erica wore a leotard and footless tights of luminescent green that shimmered like fishscales when she moved.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room'
FallNet - the punk foot of nose
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Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Today I was wearing a pair of black opaque footless tights.
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Of course a novelist is not obliged to write directly about contemporary history, but a novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot.
Collected Essays
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Well, the clams footled on and tried to swamp the plaintiffs with lengthy motions.
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With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment.
The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll
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He is thus often able to adjust to hospital life and yet be frightened footless by the thought of having to leave.
THE DICE MAN
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When you're older, you'll be sorry that you footled away your youth instead of preparing for a profession.
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Erica wore a leotard and footless tights of luminescent green that shimmered like fishscales when she moved.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Know, you footler!" growled Smathers disgustedly.
Cleek, the Master Detective
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Yes, they are dressed in mini skirts and footless tights and they all have what look like orthopaedic boots on their unfeasibly large feet (probably to balance their unfortunate macrocephaly) and yet I would still say that they resemble My Little Pony, (which was manuafactured because little girls like hair and horses) far more than any human being, with perhaps the exception of a morphed Beyonce.
The 7 worst sexy toys for children
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Once they became a vital part of any transaction, I fiddled and footled about until the realisation dawned that I would not be able to buy anything unless I got a pin.
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But now Giblets has a means of giving voice to his wordless rage, a vehicle for his footless fury!
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No wonder dancers always wore "footless tights," which became today's leggings.
Martha Rosenberg: Before You Bash the Fashion Industry, Remember It Gave Us Leggings
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footle," in the business of advertising he developed a curious literary twist.
Hocken and Hunken
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Are they going to breed a headless footless model?
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I weave the shoes of sorrow : Soundless shall be the footless light In all men 's ears of sorrow , Sudden and light .
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I'm happily watching England footle around against Liechtenstein, (world leaders in denture manufacture) in a Euro 2004 qualifier on the telly.
