There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  Television interview, 21 Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

   With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Morality'.

   She had very nice feet and plenty of money.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.12.

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'.

Half-owre, half-owre to Aberdour, 'Tis fifty fathoms deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet.

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens'.

   In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming round our feet; Red hair she had and golden skin, Her sulky lips were shaped for sin, Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'd, The strongest legs in Pontefract.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'The Licorice Fields at Pontefract'.

   And he said,Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 3:5.

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it inhaste: it isthe L's passover.For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all thegods of Egypt Iwill executejudgment: Iam the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDExodus12:11^12.

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:35.

When Iconsider thyheavens,theworkofthy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest himtohave dominionover the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 8:3^6.

He maketh my feet like hinds'feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms18:33.

I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 40:1^2.

Truly God isgood to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 73:1^3.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms116:8^11.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:105.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 5:3^5.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion,Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the L shall bring again Zion.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 52:7^8.

Thou,O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his bellyand his thighs of brass.His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stonewas cut out without hands, whichsmotetheimage upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel 2:31^34.

Asthe climbing up a sandy way isto the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 25:20.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, whenye departoutofthat house orcity, shake off the dust of your feet.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:14.