In the offing

Usage examples of afoot.

Kero thought, as she guided Hellsbane afoot through the darkness, stumbling now and again over a root or a rock.

She found a patha well-worn path leading from the riverand followed it just out of sight, afoot, leaving Hellsbane tethered in a safe place hidden by the underbrush.

Right now, the action was all afoot, and hand-to-hand, and there was no place for a mounted force to goexcept for the heavy cavalry, who kept trying to plow through the enemy lines without getting trapped behind them.

I would be content to go afoot, for I can go as well afoot as most men on a horse.

Leaving the horses and gear, he led Cuin afoot back the way they had come.

There were bold rumors afoot that Graig had been murdered, and though nothing could be proven, the wardens were taking no more chances.

In front of the Two Rivers men, a man afoot would have to twist and turn to make it through.

Berelain, but then he saw three tall women afoot among the horses, long dark shawls wrapped around their heads and draped over their upper bodies, and he hesitated.

Each apparently was trying to find out whether the others knew what was afoot, from the way they were shaking their heads at each other and shooting glances toward the Blues, the Browns and the Greens.

Pulling his hat low for shade, Mat searched the road for a woman, for anyone, mounted or afoot, and his heart sank.

Few of his followers had horses, and the more that came afoot, the slower they would go.

There were so many packs of two-legs about, afoot and riding the hard-footed four-legs, that they could not say whether any they knew of were the one he sought.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

People afoot pushing out of the tunnel behind him shoved them aside, but he just stared, too.

Sedan chairs borne by trotting bearers became almost as common as people afoot, and, afoot, shopkeepers in coats or dresses heavily embroidered around the chest and shoulders were outnumbered by folk in livery as bright as that of the chair-bearers.