Lexicographical Neighbors of Footpages
Literary usage of Footpages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain, Time with me goes slow.— " Put
ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"* But that grief is heavy I know. ..."
2. The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, Josiah Hamilton Castleman (1908)
"The carriers were the Hours; twelve little; merry, whirligig footpages, as you
should desire to see, that went all round, ..."
3. Eighth Reader by James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender (1911)
"The carriers were the Hours — twelve as merry little whirligig footpages as you
should desire to see. They went all round, and found out the persons invited ..."
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