Once when I was traveling in Namaqua-land, I observed a spot which was imprinted with at least twenty spoors or marks of a lion's paw; and as I pointed them out a Namaqua chief told me that a lion had been practicing his leap.
The spoors or tracks of the lions and buffaloes and other animals were so abundant, as to show that this precaution was necessary.
But here and there spoors of dog and man form, as it were, zones of terror across the wilderness.
The cleft spoors stood out with curved outer edges as the spoorsof a bull generally are.
He and his dog Bjönn followed elk spoors from one horizon to the other, from one county to the other.
He went back thousands of years when the wolves howled along elk spoors in Ré Valley.
Gaupa had seen many elk spoors in his life, but never any like these.
He followed the spoors with childish joy, lost them, found them again, and made straight for Three Valley.
There was also something strange about the calf’s spoors that day.
They hammered and crashed, their hoofs cut gaping wounds in the moss, the dew fell like tears from the sedge, and dark spoors appeared on the bog where the mighty ones walked.
The elk spoors led straight towards the valley and the church bells—one might think Rauten was going to church.
There were no traces of a human being, but he found elk spoors like Rauten’s, and he stopped stump-cutting that selfsame day.
He found the spoors of the dog and elk, indistinct but unmistakable: long lines across a tuft of wiregrass from the elk hoofs, and close by them clear marks of Bjönn’s paws.
The spoors were there, and there was something alive about them.
They worked at the things nearest and immediate, with the spoors and the chase.
Rauten had gone into a long lake, and Gaupa found no spoors up from the water.
Two horse spoors going back--and the same horse made one of these spoors.
For he had marked the returning spoors of the other horse.
Well, to make a long story short, we followed the two spoors all through that long hot day.
We followed the two spoors for something more than an hour, and then, rather suddenly, in some thickish bush, came upon a sight that smote us all with horror.
To return would be difficult, for the storm had passed that way and all our spoors would be obliterated; moreover, we had gone out of our path so far when following the fire that I was by no means certain as to the absolute direction.
Yes, we searched; but the storm had changed the whole aspect of the dunes, and the spoors lay buried under many feet of sand, and well, Carfax was never seen again!
Leopards," suggested Inyati, "there are many spoors here, but no lions.
Here, for the wind had once more blown the sand from out the filled-in footprints, were our spoors mine meeting his; here we turned back; but what was this?
He soon found where they had left the trail, and in the now clear light of dawn their spoorsshowed clearly in the soft sand.
It was thick and muddy, and fouled by wild animals, whose spoors showed thick all around it; but to us it was absolute nectar, and it needed all Inyati's persuasion to prevent me from drinking to excess and probably dying on the spot.
The boys were aroused and soon had a fire; and as the morning came they discovered by the spoors that two lions had passed along within a few feet of where the boys lay and had gored one of the oxen during the night.
Some of the natives built a high, strong pen for our cattle, and the first night they were enclosed in it a lion tried to force its way in, as indicated by the spoors the next morning.
Spoors is one of them, and by watching him some clew may be obtained to the others.
Spoors and two others of them had been drafted into the other vessel, while the other three remained on board of the Bronx.
Once when I was travelling in Namaqua-land, I observed a spot which was imprinted with at least twenty spoors or marks of the lion's paw; and as I pointed them out, a Namaqua chief told me that a lion had been practising his leap.
Tari Barl indicated that the scouts had followed two distinctspoors for more than a couple of miles without actually sighting any of the retiring enemy.
It's a wonder they got to the camp at all, for there are distinct spoors of lions.
This leegte was the main refuge for lions which ranged over a large extent of surrounding country; every morning their fresh spoors could be traced to it.
Judging by the spoorscrossing the road this jungle must have been full of game.
Spoors of wild animals ran in all directions, and cattle and sheep tracks were equally numerous.
Game was abundant, spoors crossed one another in all directions, and two bold yaks awakened in us greater respect than before.
Even the very spoors at their feet were tantalisingly fresh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
