Footprints

Examples

• When I went upstairs with him he pointed to several footprints upon the light carpet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Peter left those footprints in the stone upon which he stood at the time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And she wondered if he had made footprints all the way up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Oh, I track the fairest fair Through new haunts of pleasure; Footprints here and echoes there Guide me to my treasure: Lo! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We crossed a large court, entered a great door, and stood upon a pavement of purest white marble, deeply worn by footprints. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was not stated how it was ever discovered whose footprints they were, seeing the interview occurred secretly and at night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The print of the face in the prison was that of a man of common size; the footprints were those of a man ten or twelve feet high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the soft mud on the bank of a tiny rivulet he found footprints such as he alone in all the jungle had ever made, but much larger than his. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• We went upstairs to the first floor, still seeing no other furniture than the dirty footprints. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why does she leave fascination in her footprints? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We were now in front of the house; he looked attentively and closely at the gravel for footprints before he raised his eyes to the windows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Never shall I forget being told how he brought some lady friend a book to read, called 'Footprints on the Borders of Another World. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nothing had been touched or taken, but there were the footprints to prove that the intrusion was an undoubted fact. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Typed by Edwina