Light-heel'd Mothers make leaden-heel'd Daughters.
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Light heel'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daughters.Thomas Fuller (writer)
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That Heel. That lousy wart on the nose of progress.
Theodore Sturgeon
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
Joseph Banks
While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.Joanna Baillie
Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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