17 Metaphors for trail

The trail was an abandoned Indian path, narrow, and in places extremely steep.

] The Lost Trail had been the means of Tim, the trapper, discovering what proved to him the trail of death!

On and on she went across the immense glistening smooth fields through which the trail ahead was the only scar, through groves of black pines whispering, whispering, whispering, down into shadow-filled canons, out into the open again, up and down and on and on, a tiny dot upon the endless wastes.

"You see the Kenogami trail is a sled trail leading from the little town of Nipigon, on the railroad, to Kenogami House, which is a Hudson Bay Post at the upper end of Long Lake," explained Wabi to his white companion.

My trail is the world, and I have travelled it since the time my legs could carry me, and I shall travel it until I die.

" They all admitted that the trail was the final test.

No, Red Coat, there are no signs to show it, but the trail on the other side is much fresher, which proves it.

"Trails are our middle names;" I told him, "and I can follow one" "Whitherso'er" Pee-wee began.

It was all the same as that afternoon eighteen days before, when the girl had left, similar even to the cloud of black smoke in the distance lifting lazily into the sky; only now the trail, instead of growing thinner and lighter, became denser and blacker minute by minute.

Well, believe me, that trail was a cinch and I could follow it as easy as a clothes line.

It needed only a glance to show that the seven trails, each one as clear-cut and delicate as that of a prowling fox, were the records of wolves' cautious feet; and that they were no longer beating the thickets for grouse and rabbits, but moving swiftly all together for the edges of the vast barrens where the caribou herds were feeding.

Frequently the trails were sodden, and often obliterated; soft snow piling up like drifts of feathers into fleecy barriers through which the dogs, with the aid and encouragement of their Master, fought their way, inch by inch.

You see, you order them to give way hearty, so as to get a good headway, till just as you get to the narrow place, and then trail is the word.

At the fork of the road she saw that the trail that led to the upper ford was much the nearer way to the ranch.

These bear trails are quite a feature of the Alaskan country, and some of them are two feet wide and over a foot deep, showing that they have been in constant use for many years.

The trails and the miles had been long and hard; much hunger and thirst, and there was hell in the hearts of men this night.

The ground round about some of them was trodden down so that there was not as much grass left as would feed a sheep; and the game trails were like streets, or the beaten roads round a city.

17 Metaphors for  trail