As bad was Harley Kennan's trick of catching him gloriously asleep on an edge of Villa's skirt and of tickling the hair between his
toes and making him kick involuntarily in his sleep, until he kicked himself awake to hearing of gurgles and snickers of laughter at his expense.
When he heard the peasants shouting as they dug him out and rolled the frozen body of Vasili Andreevich from off him, he was at first surprised that in the other world peasants should be shouting in the same old way and had the same kind of body, and then when he realized that he was still in this world he was sorry rather than glad, especially when he found that the
toes on both his feet were frozen.
But when it was undressed and he caught a glimpse of wee, wee, little hands, little feet, saffron-colored, with little
toes, too, and positively with a little big
toe different from the rest, and when he saw Lizaveta Petrovna closing the wide-open little hands, as though they were soft springs, and putting them into linen garments, such pity for the little creature came upon him, and such terror that she would hurt it, that he held her hand back.
If he cuts off one of his own
toes, or one of his assistants', would you be very much astonished?
There are men, too--wretched busybodies--who walk about merely to see if they can find some wretched tchinovnik or broken-down official who has got
toes projecting from his boots or his hair uncut!
My heels reared aloft, my
toes they hearkened,--thee they would know: hath not the dancer his ear--in his
toe!
They had to climb this, so the guide in the lead cut steps in the ice with his hatchet, and as fast as he took his
toes out of one of these slight holes, the
toes of the man behind him occupied it.
So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her
toes when they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly and sadly:--
The great
toe, instead of being in line with the other
toes, opposed them, like a thumb, and its opposition to the other
toes was what enabled him to get a grip with his foot.
yet there are upland geese with webbed feet which rarely or never go near the water; and no one except Audubon has seen the frigate-bird, which has all its four
toes webbed, alight on the surface of the sea.
Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown
toes.
Its hands were black, too, and its
toes curled down, like a bird's.