the heel of a mast

It consisted in the hope that a driver or fireman might be too incapacitated to carry on when, in true story-book fashion, the pupil would do the job, save the situation and find himself a hero among his confrères of the running shed.

At the same time she lifts her left leg testingly in a kind of skip or dance step, before exiting quietly stage right.

We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.