head-to-foot

Updated: May 23, 2025

I wore the fur head-to-foot combination they give one and paper gloves under the fur ones you sent me. I was not cold. In a way it seemed amusing to be going out knowing as little as I do. My mitrailleuse had been mounted the night before. I had never fired it, nor did I know the country at all even though I'd motored along our lines. I followed the others or I surely should have been lost.

James R. (James Rogers) McConnell - Flying for France : With the American escadrille at Verdun

An anxious head-to-foot glance followed, and Ensign Darrin found himself spick and span. Now he stepped to Dan's door, calling in: "May I come in, old fellow?" "I'll be in a strange state of mind if you don't," Danny Grin answered. Ensign Dalzell was putting the finishing touches to his own rapid toilet.

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz

The toni is loose and must be near," again and again, louder and louder. Perhaps he was following and would hear. Again, louder still. The one-eyed man, disturbed by the cry, stirred, threw his arms abroad, stretched, and put his foot on the mouth of a neighbour lying head-to-foot beside him. The neighbour snored loudly and turned his face sideways under the foot.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life