He had observed as he was about to leave the roof of Higginbottom Castle that his footprints in the snow were suggestive of his actual condition, and he wondered if he could possibly get through the evening's work without catastrophe.
It was straight, and after his descent the soot, that clung to the inner walls like bad habits to a man, showed none of the vacillating lines which were the essential characteristic of his footprints on the roof.
Of course there must be all manner of footprints there, some recent, and others made on the occasion of the preceding visit of the scouts.
He even got up, and went across to the other side of the fire, to stoop down and examine the plain footprints left by their late guest.
Thad saw at once that something must have occurred to give the scout a shock; and he wondered whether it could have anything to do with the mystery of the boat, and those footprints over on the island.
The night before a little snow had fallen so that footprints could be traced.
Sidenote: An finds the sword] An rode back to the brushwood, and followed the footprints of Thorolf to a certain ditch or bog.
The footprints of the bird and the cleft for Buddha's hand are still there, and hence comes the name of "The Hill of the Vulture Cavern.
They were come to the stile where he and Margaret had watched their footprints on the snow.
Yet footprints in snow never seem to be going anywhere.
Just because you're feeling annoyed with a sonnet, footprintsin the snow mustn't lead anywhere.
They had reached the stile leading over into the high road, and Margaret gazed back wistfully at the footprints in the snow, before they crossed it and went on their way.
Everywhere the snow glistened with the footprints of many birds, but not a single call broke a silence which was cold and absolute except for the powdery whisper of the snow where it was sliding from the holly leaves.
It will snow again this afternoon and our footprints will vanish.
Among these we also observed thefootprints of a smaller animal, which we examined with much care, but could form no certain opinion as to them.
No human footprints were to be seen either on the track or among the bushes, but those of the cat were found everywhere.
We saw, also, many of their footprints in this neighbourhood.
As he pulled his saddle horse in the direction of the smoke he noticed that there were no footprints in the trail and a stillness which impressed him as peculiar pervaded the place.
But have they looked for strange footprints or any clues to corroborate her story?
And the father saw the footprintsof the queen and the princess, and he said to his son: "My son, these footprints are clean-cut and ladylike.
They set out over the same trail, along which they readily discovered the footprints of all the parties.
Less than two hundred yards distant the pursuers came to a depression of the soil where it was damp, and the footprints of the donkey and the two men were as distinct as if made in putty.
There were no footprintsthere now: they had utterly vanished!
To discover footprints on a supposedly uninhabited shore is thrilling, but to discover that those footprints have disappeared is even more exciting.
Are you sure you didn't drink some of Sir Peter's rum before you went to the creek and found that the footprints were missing?
Then he had to explain about the discovery of the very large footprints on the bank of the creek and the finding of a lady's lavender-scented handkerchief, with the initials A.
I wonder if it was a mahogany man who made those footprints on the edge of the creek?
The crew will now return aboard the Argo, leaving the mystery of the mastodon's footprints unsolved.
Fear not, but follow so closely in my footprints that your feet obliterate them, and I will bridge the great gulf that lieth between Mo and the outer world.
They were the footprints of the baroness, which were vanishing as does a memory.
With its destruction are obliterated some of the footprints of the heroes and martyrs who took the first steps in the long and bloody march which led us through the wilderness to the promised land of independent nationality.
The trackers had made out their footprints in the mud of the arroyo.
The wolves were thrown off--the dangerous rapid had deterred them; on the other side their footprints were no longer found.
The footprints led to a large tree in a fairly open area.
Penny tried to draw her eyes away, but the footprintsfascinated and challenged her.
So far as Elmer could say, his footprints resembled those they had seen with Hen's, although there was really nothing remarkable about them to distinguish the indentations above all others.
Show me the footprints and I'll tell you soon enough if it's him.
For about an hour after resuming their march, the footprints of the camel could be traced in the direction they wished to go; but gradually they became less perceptible, until at length they were lost altogether.
The footprints leading out from the two ravines were traced for about a mile in the direction they wished to follow.
Where the footprints ran through the breached hedge, Koot stooped down and planted little sticks across the runway till there was barely room for a weasel to pass.
Perhaps the day after the trapper had shot his first deer he discovered fine footprints like a child's hand on the snow around the carcass.
The footprints have the appearance of having been brushed over; so the thief had a bushy tail.
If the trapper does not see the black fox scurrying over the snow, the tell-tale characteristics of the footprints are the length and strength of the leaps.
The hunter may follow the little four-abreast galloping footprints that lead to a hole among stones or to rotten logs, but long before he has reached the nesting-place of his quarry comes a stench against which white blood is powerless.
The thing that was seen running away was a boy--those footprints were made by a boy.
One might make quite a romance out of those footprints on the sand, and the little subsequent events.
The great rakes scraping among the shrubs in the garden left on the gravelled paths the light footprints of summer, while the soft pattering of the water from the sprinklers on the green lawn seemed like its revivifying song.
Quickly the farmer blazed away with his old flint-lock rifle, but he had not killed, only wounded one of the wolves and it got away, leaving a bloody trail of footprints behind.
On the beach we noticed fresh human footprintsthat must have been made by men of great stature.
My attention was diverted from the beauties which surrounded us by some strange footprints which I noticed on the soft ground near the stream, and which appeared to have been made by a bird or two-legged animal of prodigious size.
They were twice as long as the footprints we made, and none of us were noted for small feet.
Some feller has just left that skiff there, because his footprints on the bow seat ain't dry yet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footprints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: footstep; trace; track; trail
