at one's feet

And when the flowers fall, “the sky blooms on the ground,” an unexpected burst of color at one’s feet.

Much of this news was of the sort that, in terms of its stark and sensitive awareness of the consequences of racism, opened an abyss at one’s feet and changed the taste of the saliva in one’s mouth.

It was an odd sensation, to stare down at one’s feet and see moving clouds.

To Bigger and his kind white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead, or like a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one’s feet in the dark.

Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde seems almost at one’s feet when standing on the summit of Devis Mountain.