Like those who completed a marathon

Usage examples of footsore.

The cattle were that tired and footsore -- half their feet were bleeding, poor devils -- that they ran in through the sliprails and began to lay down.

Mind this, that they were so footsore and tender about the hoofs that they could not have run away from us on foot if they had tried.

Unless Trickle had thought this stupid spell out better than it appeared she had, the silly thing was quite likely to march Maggie right into the bandit camp too footsore and exhausted even to put up a good fight.

To risk himself with what was left of those men after a shipwreck, with twenty-odd footsore, half-drowned sailors and a handful of gypsies who understood fighting over women or gold but did not understand fighting over matters of policy, was quite another.

No one paid much attention to another scholar leading a footsore horse through the streets.

Being hungry and footsore and weary and terrified by the jungle and its savage life in no way lessened the pall of gloom that enveloped him.

It might with great effort be done, but one would end with a very footsore and cranky bird, and a tedious wait for dinner.

Heartsick, weary, and footsore she felt, when she reached the cottage where Francis was standing at the door to welcome her return.

Enkidu was footsore and short of temper, and that roadside scene had not improved his outlook.

Duly next morning the rosy-fingered Aurora drew the gold and crimson curtains of the east, and the splendid Apollo, stepping forth from his chamber, took the reins of his unrivalled team, and driving four-in-hand through the sky, like a great swell as he is, took small note of the staring hucksters and publicans by the road-side, and sublimely overlooked the footsore and ragged pedestrians that crawl below his level.

It was nearly sundown and all three travelers were tired, footsore, and hungry.

Long ago, somehow, some committee of scientists, prodded by footsore wives found enough money to cover it with a layer of sand.

What could be my portion but fruitless reproach and footsore pilgrimage from woe to woe?

Disconsolate and footsore under a beating sun, I could scarce credit my fortune when a cider-faced pig-farmer slowed his haycart.

Almost famished with hunger, and so weary and footsore that we could scarcely move another step, we went back to a cleared place on the high ground, and laid down to sleep, entirely reckless as to what became of us.