At that point there was a stratum of soft clay, which took and preserved the impression of everything of weight which rested upon it; and instantly he perceived a number of footmarks about a spot where a canoe had been beached twice.
Excitedly he broke on the slumbers of his Indian companion, and after showing him the brooch, bade him accompany him to the place where he had found it, and there pointed to the footmarks on the river bank.
And I saw over the bridge nearest me, which was wider than the other, countless footmarks go.
And I saw that some of the footmarks were of feet returning.
Notes upon footmarks have been gathered also from illustrations in Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, Kansas, Nevada, and Florida.
Footmarks of unknown Animals from the Stratified Sandstone of Turner's Falls, near Greenfield, Mass.
A spectral hound which leaves material footmarks and fills the air with its howling is surely not to be thought of.
The day had been wet, and Sir Charles's footmarks were easily traced down the Alley.
It was the desire to stamp out Chilcote's footmarks with my own--to prove that personality is the great force capable of everything.
The indomitable force that had trampled out Chilcote's footmarks in public life, in private life--in love.
To trample out Chilcote's footmarkswith his own had been his tacit instinct from the first; now it rose paramount.
He can trace footmarks which are absolutely invisible to the eye, and he has a bushman's instinct which in the old days in China led to some extraordinary results.
You haven't mixed your own footmarks up with somebody else's?
I remember an old Norwegian, an inveterate fisherman, whose footmarks we saw ahead of us on the stream all through an afternoon.
Fosca, noting the marble footmarkson the crown (p.
If the traveller will mount to the crown of the bridge he will see two footmarks in stone let into the paving on either side.
It is interesting to observe the footmarks of wild animals on the sand, for they are now clearly marked as on fresh fallen snow.
I noticed to-day a buzzard and a grey shrike; and a couple of wolves had run along the road, as one could see by their footmarks and the scratching on the sand.
The footmarks in the corner of the field were proved to have been those of his brother and the prisoner, as the shoes of each exactly fitted them when tried.
And then I shall go to the Shivering Sand--don't be afraid of my letting my footmarks betray me!
Could a boat have taken her off, in such weather as this, from those rocks where her footmarks stop?
The day had been wet, and Sir Charles's footmarks were easily traced down the alley.
Think shame o' yoursel' for speaking o' marrying before the tide has washed the footmarks o' the dead off the sea sands.
There's ourfootmarks pressing down the twigs and moss and stuff; and there's his, I fancy.
Cause there's the mark where the boat's head touched ground, where we landed, and our footmarks in the mud.
I asked, "since these footmarksare not continued on the path?
I have expected to find these footmarks from the very beginning.
Rouletabille, "there are footmarks visible on the path--the ground was very moist.
I throw out this hypothesis for what it is worth, but it explains many things,--and particularly the fact that neither the laboratory nor the vestibule bear any traces of the footmarks found in the room.
Footmarks have been found in the park, leading away from the window of the vestibule, but none has been found going towards it.
Rouletabille, "here again are the footmarks of the escaping man; they skirt the lake here and finally disappear just before this path, which leads to the high road to Epinay.
There are no footmarks in the attic other than those of Daddy Jacques himself," said the magistrate with a significant turn of his head.
I learnt these facts from my examination of the footmarks in the court the next morning.
You see, there are the marks of three pairs of feet only, and as first Sneathy and then both of the brothers came this way, these footmarks must be theirs.
At the watercourse, of course, the footmarks ceased, because of the hard gravel.
On this the signs of footmarkswere almost undiscoverable, although I am often able to discover tracks in grass that are invisible to others.
It was damp, and we all stooped and examined the footmarks that were to be seen on it.
Plainly they are the footmarks of Henry and Robert Foster, made as they followed Sneathy.
I saw thefootmarks across the fields, and agreed with you (it was indeed obvious) that Sneathy had gone that way first, and that the brothers had followed, walking over his tracks.
Yet it took me a long way before it suddenly fled altogether, as its footmarks told me.
I have also seen on the mud-flats of the Bay of Fundy the footmarks of birds (Tringa minuta), which daily run along the borders of that estuary at low water, and which I have described in my Travels.
The similar footmarks afterwards observed in a rock of corresponding age at Storton Hill, were imprinted on five thin beds of clay, superimposed one upon the other in the same quarry, and separated by beds of sandstone.
The footmarks were first observed standing out in relief from the lower surface of slabs of sandstone, resting on thin layers of fine unctuous clay.
Have we moved anything from its place, left any footmarks on the floor?
Had he even gone as far as footmarksin Mark's shoes?
Cayley must have been glad that footmarks were not necessary.
There were no recent footmarks outside the window, but the ground was in a very hard condition owing to the absence of rain.
I went back into the forest along a path where I had often seen the greatfootmarks of the tapir.
In the lower ground, the footmarks of the tapir are very frequent, especially along the small paths, where I have sometimes traced them for more than a mile.
Pleydell, among the evidence formerly collected, had by him the sizes and markings of the footmarks found round the place of Frank Kennedy's death-struggle.
At this Hatteraick cried out suddenly, "Der deyvil, how could there be footmarks at all on the ground when it was as hard as the heart of a Memel log?
Then he went out, and ran off over the hard-trodden snow outside the houses, treading with such force that it seemed as if the footmarks were made in soft snow.
So strongly did he jump that his footmarks are seen on the stone to this day.
Do you think those footmarks can possibly be anyone's but David's?
I knew too much to leave my footmarks all over them, but I had to get on to the bed to have a chance of getting a shot.
No, on the whole the footmarks seemed to clear the character of the Russian nation from any reasonable suspicion of being directly concerned in the crime.
And of course the police heard all about it from the servants and keepers, and it fitted in only too well with all the rest about the footmarks and his absence from the house at the time, and the rifle and everything.
There were four or five more footmarks leading back to the lawn, and over these Gimblet stooped with particular interest.
If it has not rained the murderer's footmarks will be very much more easily seen, and that is very important.
You know already that the murderer got clear away, and the next morning footmarks were found outside the window which proved to have been made by Sir David Southern.
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