27 Metaphors for tracks

The track was rough and fresh gravel rolled under his feet.

But Rajan's ability to cast himself in the 'anti-Establishment' mould is equalled by his skills in brokering deals (the recent track of contentious and fast-confused charges over the Rs 300,000 government sponsorship of the SARS campaign at Remo Fernandes' 50th birthday is a case in point, as are the willingness to propose projects to a government that are otherwise blasted from the editorial pulpit).

From thence the road forks, but the track to the left is the better of the two, at any rate if on foot, and by itafter fifteen minutes' labourthe foot of the Cascade d'Enfer is reached; and the Pont d'Arrougé in another quarter of an hour.

[Note 18: There were no lions nor large beasts of prey in the island; it has been suggested that these tracks may have been footprints of an alligator.]

Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track 280 Was a flash of golden fire.

The narrow, zigzag track of the deer and the buffaloes was the only beaten path through the prairie; and this could only be traveled by two or three horsemen abreast.

Them tracks are fresh, an' yonder's one o' their wallers that's bin used not long agone.

It is one of the few places whence tours can still be planned over almost unlimited snow-fields when a track is a rare sight except on the few ordinary short runs or on the Parsenn.

The tracks we saw were old ones, the animals having passed there several days previously.

Her heart thrilled and her eyes were bright; and every new track was a fresh surprise and delight.

Mebbe those tracks are Brenner's.

there are indeed found traces throughout all time; but a track is not a goal, and this having once been reached, humanity cannot turn backward; and it may be maintained, that the Christian religion having once appeared, can never disappear again; having once been divinely embodied, cannot again be dissolved.

When he perceived my wish, he filled with wine the bowl; Then said I to that youth whose track was Fortune's way: "Sákí, from Being's prison deliverance did I gain, When now and now the cup thou lit'st with cheerful ray.

Fresh wolf tracks were plenty all along the bank of the stream; panthers and bears abounded in that section, and the wilderness beyond me was never explored, and hardly penetrable, so dense was the undergrowth of dwarf firs and swamp cedars.

Ah, well, listenyou're a kind soulwhat this track was.

The circular track was a mile in length, and they would round it twice, start and finish alike being made directly in front of the judges' stand.

The hare's track when running is two holes abreast and then two single ones.

The tracks had been bird tracks, but the creature that swung in the air next day was a baby hare.

The track is only two feet gauge, with forty-pound rails, which have been laid upon the ancient highway over which the caravans between China and India have passed for thirty centuries.

"It's likely, ain't it, that I'd change into shoes as wet as these?" "Those tracks are Mart's!"

Those tracks are our private property and when she invaded them, she became a trespasser.

No, the tracks down the hill were leisurely, not the long strides which a man would make to get close to one whom he had covered with a revolver from a distance.

The heel was turned out to such an extent that the track was always a narrow indentation, where the heel fell on the soft soil.

The tracks we saw were old ones, the animals having passed there several days previously.

A dog's track in the garden is proof that a dog has been there.

27 Metaphors for  tracks