She†happens tostickout a foot just as history isrushing by.

-Adler,Jerry
  Of Fawn Hall, the secretary who helped Col Oliver North to dispose of top-secret papers,'the archetype of the  Accidental Celebrity'. In Newsweek, 9 Mar.

   Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly,God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.

-Anonymous
c.1575  Song, included in the play Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 2. William Stevenson (c.1530^75) and John Still (1543^1608) have both been credited with authorship of the play, but the song probably predates it.

The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.138^40.

She hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When dismal grew his countenance And drumlie grew his e'e. They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, Until she espied his cloven foot, And she wept right bitterlie.

-Ballads
'The Demon Lover'.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot isguilty.

-Beckett, Samuel
  Waiting for Godot, act1.

   One square foot less and it would be adulterous.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
On the tiny office he shared with Dorothy Parker, quoted in the NewYorker, 5  Jan1946.

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 8:9.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 21:23^4.

So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:33.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 25:19.

Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 9:2.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:13.

When you destroy a blade of grass You poison England at her roots; Remember no man's foot can pass Where evermore no green life shoots.

-Bottomley, Gordon
  'To Ironfounders and Others'.

Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.1184^6.

Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.8,'It's My Own Invention'.

It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.

-Defoe, Daniel
  Robinson Crusoe.

Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'The Listeners'.

Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'Song: Go and catch a falling star', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

And whenThyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made oneöturn down an empty glass!

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza 75. In the1879 edition this was changed to'And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass†'.