"Hand and foot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... side go bare, go bare, Both hand and foot go cold: But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... spake the ancient nurse, And she gave a rede of ill; "Bind ye him but in Signy's hair. So shall hand and foot ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... or elsewhere may be for them. Those amendments were engrafted upon the constitution of the country, and proclaimed to the country as part and parcel of the constitution by force and by fraud, and not in the legitimate way laid down in the constitution. Ten States of this Union were tied hand and foot, and bayonets were presented to their breasts to make them consent against their will to the passage of these amendments. The procuring of these amendments was a fraud upon this people, and upon the people of the whole United States, and having been thus obtained, I hold that they ought to be ...
— The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes • James Quay Howard
... added, "These Southron thieves blow the name of Edward before them, and with its sound have spell-bound the courage of every soul I meet. Come then, valiant Wallace, and conjure it down again, else I shall not be surprised if the men of Annandale bind me hand and foot, and deliver me up to Algernon Percy (the leader of this inroad), to purchase mercy to ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... make like he mad at him—like he don't want none o' them things—like Pappy jest pesterin' round him fer nothin'. but meanness. Now mind, Aunt Cornely, I ain't say Sammy knows this his own se'f. But I studied Sammy mighty well, an' I know. Sammy gittin' tell he do me the same way. I wait on him hand and foot; I cook his bacon jest like he tol' me you did it fer him. I fix everything the best I kin (and mebby all three of the chillen a-cryin' after me); and when he come in and see it all ready, and see how hard I got it, and seem like there's a call fer him to be ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
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