Footsteps

Examples

• 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.
• He had taken but a step, however, ere his quick ear caught the sound of approaching footsteps immediately without. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There was no shadowy picture of his footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Finally there was a creak from a chair, and the footsteps ceased. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On our way upstairs, I called her attention to the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Crupp's pitfalls, and also to the prints of recent footsteps. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But the long gallery ceased to re-echo the sound of footsteps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The receding footsteps of the speaker were heard; and, in another minute, the form of Mr. John Dawkins, otherwise the Artful Dodger, appeared. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Was it a bustle of footsteps below stairs? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The idea quite stunned her, as she attended the light footsteps down the stairs, that the house door might be safely shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No mark of her presence appeared inside the building, but I found traces of her outside it, in footsteps on the sand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The footsteps were approaching from the other side of the church, and the voice was a woman's. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The water is too shallow to hide the body, and there is sand everywhere to print off the murderer's footsteps. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Suddenly, to my horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in the next room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Footsteps in the stone passage outside the door. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Edited by Josie