Footstep

Examples

• Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There's a footstep! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With a footstep as soft and gentle as the voice, the speaker tripped away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Their quick ears caught the sound of an approaching footstep. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her heart beat quick on hearing Harriet's footstep and voice; so, she supposed, had poor Mrs. Weston felt when _she_ was approaching Randalls. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Here's one footstep going FROM Cobb's Hole; and here is another going back to it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As Bradley passed out at the gate with an undecided foot, he heard it shut behind him, and heard the footstep of the man coming after him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There were rays of candlelight from one of them, and there was the sound of a footstep going about. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• While he ruminated a footstep descended the stairs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A footstep in the snow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Then there was a man's footstep running down stairs; and Edith peeped out of the drawing-room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I heard the sound too--a sound like a light footstep following us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Not an unnecessary footstep! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No doubt, a footstep. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I heard it nearing me slowly, until it came changed to my ear--came like footsteps moving onward--then stopped. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Never will I cease to dog your footsteps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The man's footsteps were so noisy on the echoing stones that he was unwilling to add the sound of his own. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The grass about it was too short, and the ground too hard, to show any marks of footsteps. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The girl had almost ceased to breathe, when, to her relief, the head disappeared and she heard the brute's footsteps leaving the window. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Hunt as he might, no sign could he find anywhere of the footsteps walking FROM them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As their retreating footsteps died away in the distance, I called out softly the Martian word of greeting, kaor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And, unlike the American colonists, who simply repudiated a king, the French, following in the footsteps of the English revolution, beheaded one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His footsteps were heard along the gravel path; in a moment he was in the passage, and in another he was before them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He took me down lower on the shore, and I saw for myself that his footsteps and mine were the only footsteps printed off on the sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This gentleman speaks of footsteps in the grass, but, after all, it is easy to be mistaken on such a point. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• While thus engaged he heard footsteps on the gravel without, and somebody knocked at the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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