Positive and uncompromising.
1846. Mr. Pickens has come out flat-footed for the Administration, a real red-hot Democrat, dyed in the wool.—N.Y. Herald, June 30 (Bartlett).
1854. A ‘Flat-Footed Candidate’ for Justice of the Peace in Palestine, Texas, comes out in the journals with the following address:… I stand flat-footed, square-toed, hump-shouldered, upon the platform of free rights and true republicanism.—Knick. Mag., xliii. 439 (April).
1858. His Herculean frame, and bold, flat-footed way of saying things, had impressed his neighbors, and he held the rod in terrorem over them.—Harper’s Mag., xvii. p. 563 (Sept.) (Bartlett).
