footpads

Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins footpads beat their victims senseless up dark alleyways.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins footpads beat their victims senseless up dark alleyways.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins footpads beat their victims senseless up dark alleyways.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins footpads beat their victims senseless up dark alleyways.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

Only a few streets away, amidst the raucous cries of street hawkers and the incessant thunder of wagons, starving children begged, soldiers mutilated in the recent war drowned their sorrows in gin, and for the sake of a few coins footpads beat their victims senseless up dark alleyways.

THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

These are called footpads, and are the lowest class of English rogues; amongst whom in general there reigns something like some regard to character.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

The country is, perhaps, too thinly inhabited to produce many of that description of thieves termed footpads, or highwaymen.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

The country is, perhaps, too thinly inhabited to produce many of that description of thieves termed footpads, or highwaymen.

Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

These are called footpads, and are the lowest class of English rogues; amongst whom in general there reigns something like some regard to character.

Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775

Lie facedown on a hyperextension bench, tucking your ankles securely under the footpads.

Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011