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Meanings of precarious foothold in English

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Usage of precarious foothold in English
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Mr. Dudley followed, and, with Nathan's help, gained the same precarious foothold.
Autumn Leaves: Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
2
Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
Anne of Green Gables
3
Little by little they had gained precarious foothold on the Indian domains, slowly forcing the savages westward.
Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier
4
This note greatly encouraged Haldane, and made his precarious foothold among the world's industries seem more firm and certain.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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What the Byzantines achieved by the maintenance of this precarious foothold was nothing less than the political disruption of Italy.
Medieval Europe
6
The last ten of more than one hundred steps were in an almost vertical face, which gave a somewhat precarious foothold.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
7
Sano found a dead branch and used it as a staff as he struggled from one precarious foothold to the next.
Shinjū
8
She had no choice between her present precarious foothold and the abyss, and wounded as she was she would have to fight.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07
9
Grant, who had been following the same course now obtained a precarious foothold and at once advanced to the aid of the helpless girl.
The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
10
She did not dare to call his name, lest, in the sudden awakening he might miss his precarious foothold, and fall to unavoidable death.
A Knight of the Nets
11
Over the edge of the parapet I went, obtaining, with my naked feet, a precarious foothold on the latticework,-thendown I commenced to scramble.
The Beetle: A Mystery
12
To spring from my precarious foothold was impossible, and not the slightest hold could I find for my fingers anywhere to draw myself up.
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari, and Other Tales of South-West ...
13
With a precarious foothold, he clung to the glacier with one hand, while with his pocket knife he cut a safer foothold with the other.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
14
"I thought his pedestal such a precarious foothold in life."
Balloons
15
The fatigue climbing to precarious footholds on the rails at the side, leave them the bottom of the boat to be frightened in.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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