Lexicographical Neighbors of Footposts
Literary usage of Footposts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Letters, it is said, "being now carried by carriers or footposts 16 or 18 miles
a day, it is full two months before any answer can be received from Scotland ..."
2. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"Also cupboards were sometimes concealed artfully in the bases of the footposts,
which were often ten or fourteen inches square. The " sixteen-post" bedstead ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Letters, it is said, " being now carried by carriers or footposts 16 or 18 miles
a day, it is full two months before any answer can be received from ..."
4. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton by Logan Pearsall Smith, Henry Wotton (1907)
"... shall be on the other side of you/ as perchance I shall be shortly in my genial
soil; for I will teach the footposts of that place to find your lodging. ..."
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