Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who travels on foot; especially, one who pays toll for passing on foot, as over a bridge.
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Examples
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If on a rainy day some foot-passenger takes refuge under the long vault, with projecting lime-washed beams, which leads from the door to the staircase, he will hardly fail to pause and look at the picture presented by the interior of this house.
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If on a rainy day some foot-passenger takes refuge under the long vault, with projecting lime-washed beams, which leads from the door to the staircase, he will hardly fail to pause and look at the picture presented by the interior of this house.
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More than once a heavy truck had crushed a heedless foot-passenger under that arch-way.
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It was the work of a few moments to drag out the man-trap, very gently — that the plate might not be disturbed sufficiently to throw it — to a space between a pair of young oaks which, rooted in contiguity, grew apart upward, forming a V-shaped opening between; and, being backed up by bushes, left this as the only course for a foot-passenger.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Two or three carts passed, jingling out to the suburbs; a coughing policeman and a hurrying foot-passenger or two who sang to keep off evil spirits.
Kim 2003
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They merely observed that he was short, that he was dressed in black, and that he was a total stranger to them — and continued their homeward walk, without thinking more about the loitering foot-passenger whom they had met on their way back.
No Name 2003
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Ahead of them now upon the road there was a single foot-passenger -- a man carrying a heavy basket.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson
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Therefore she heeded not the dangers of the London streets, but threaded her way along; and if at times she felt afraid of a crossing, or some hurried foot-passenger hustled her roughly, a sweet text, taught by her dearly-loved mother, came to her mind, bringing a feeling of safety along with it.
Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer
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Up to this time he had held such beings unapproachable, born only to glide about in a splendid carriage with liveried footmen and a laced and bearded coachman, throwing a calm indifferent glance on the humble foot-passenger as he plodded by in a shabby cloak.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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She rose in her seat and called to the driver of a team as they passed it; she tried to get the attention of a solitary foot-passenger, but the car flew too fast, and if the men saw her she was out of their reach before they could answer.
A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Helen M. Winslow
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