6 adverbs to describe how to footsteps

There was a noise of footsteps outside, the handle of the door turned, and a mana huge bear of a man in a long Astrachan coatstrode heavily into the room.

He was now so engrossed with the preparations for the term which was to begin to-morrow that for some while the footsteps overhead did not attract his attention.

This lamp was the signal for the major to approach, and with beating hearts the females bent forward from the windows, secure of not being seen in the night, which had now fairly closed on the valley, to listen to his approaching footsteps beneath.

"I hear his footstep, and I hear old Poquelin's footsteps, too, separately, over on the veranda.

" The Friar being already as near to the ghost of a murdered man as he probably desired to be, and willing to prevent the execution of this threat of a nearer colloquy, swung the screen forward, which closed with a tremendous clank, and the rapid footsteps of the terrified confessor speedily died away.

But as the light upon each appearance grew brighter, so did the sound become more distinct; and at length a light resonance, unmistakably a footstep, came from the hall.

6 adverbs to describe how to  footsteps  - Adverbs for  footsteps