13 Metaphors for trace

The only traces of their existence now extant were the nuraghs of Sardinia and the talayots of the Balearic Islands,gigantic tables formed with blocks, barbaric altars of enormous rocks which recalled the Celtic obelisks and sepulchral monuments of the Breton coast.

Of several of these very striking fragments, large and grand in their aspect as they each started into form, Like the red outline of beginning Adam, ... the only trace remaining is literally the impression thus deeply cut into their one observer's mind.

Not a single trace came o'er its face Of the storms that raged elsewhere; No misty screen e'er crept between The sun and its image there; And its depths at night were gemmed with light By stars in the crystal air.

If my suspicions are correctand perhaps I ought to call them mere notions, theories, ideas, rather than suspicionsbut, at any rate, if there is anything in the vague thoughts which I have, no trace of any poison will be foundand yet your cousin may have been poisoned, all the same.

Some trace is theirs of the old obstinacy which taught those pale ancestors to fight against insuperable forces until they were cast naked and broken upon the seashore.

When it was removed, the only traces of its former presence were two brass-headed spikes in the walls, from which the side curtains depended.

The only trace of the thieves that the police have been able to discover is the broken blade of a clasp-knife, which was on a flower-bed near the window.

The only traces of their existence now extant were the nuraghs of Sardinia and the talayots of the Balearic Islands,gigantic tables formed with blocks, barbaric altars of enormous rocks which recalled the Celtic obelisks and sepulchral monuments of the Breton coast.

The first trace of the intruders was a large blood-stain at the foot of the stairs, at which Susan shied like a horse.

As these were the two ordinary pathsif paths they could be called, where few or no traces of footsteps were visibleit was more than probable any plan to arrest the traveller would be laid in reference to their courses.

The traces of extinct grandeur admit of a better passion than envy: and contemplations on the great and good, whom we fancy in succession to have been its inhabitants, weave for us illusions, incompatible with the bustle of modern occupancy, and vanities of foolish present aristocracy.

The traces of these days of raid and foray are to be found in abundance all over Coquetdale, as indeed all over Northumberland, in pele-tower and barmkyn, fortified dwelling and bastle house.

Almost the only traces of Pope's garden that now remain are the splendid Spanish chesnut-trees and some elms and cedars planted by the poet himself.

13 Metaphors for  trace