What is "set foot"

Usage examples of "set foot".

The next morning, she overslept, then got lost on the way to the hospital, and didn't actually set foot in Blessed Family until noon.

They had scarcely set foot upon its pavement, when the girl started, and immediately made towards them.

What warning did I give that fellow, the first time he set foot in the house, when the express object of his visit was to know how he could knock Religion over, and floor the Established Church?

Few of them would dare to set foot in the grounds, far less try to force their way into the cabin.

When they had arrived at the open gateway of the tower, he immediately set foot on the bottom step of the spiral staircase and ran nimbly up, bearing the lantern.

But in the western or black chamber the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all.

Both of them were members of the Congregational church across the street, and as far as Mulroney knew, neither of them had ever set foot in his church.

Embittered by this treatment, he vowed never to set foot in Domleschg again, and he then came to Dorfli, where he continued to live with his little boy.

Nothing could have induced me to set foot inside the funeral home.

The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven, and about the windows and doors were ofttimes set foot-wide borders of precious stones, intricate mosaics, or tablets of beaten gold bearing bas-reliefs depicting what may have been bits of the history of this forgotten people.

They had been trying to stop him from the first moment he'd set foot on this world.