"You can see by the footmarks that they came in through that door; of course it's always kept locked, and here's the key hanging up inside the shed.

"No; why?" "Why, because old Fossberry's house has been broken into, and they think the thieves must have come through our garden; there were some footmarks in the shrubbery just on the other side of the wall.

If we tell him, he'll be bound to tell the police, to explain about those footmarks; and when it comes out that we got into the house, I should think we are pretty certain to be charged with having stolen the coins.

It's all in the paper this morning; it mentions the footmarks and the knife-blade, and says that as yet the police have not been able to discover any further traces of the robbers.

A crimson footmark on the gray concrete! Riglett, who had been waiting patiently two yards away, now coughed plaintively.

Whose footmark?

In that case the footmark might be his.

Hilda, watching her, and observing the wet footmarks which she left on the pavement, was appalled by the sense of her own responsibility as to the future of Sarah Gailey.

No fading footmark see that tells Of that poor unremembered thing!

In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves.

On the further side was a flat expanse of seemingly firm and dry sand, but no sooner had our elephants begun to cross it, than the whole sandbank for yards began to rock and tremble; the water welled up over the footmarks of the elephants, and S. called out to us, Fussun, Fussun!

It followed so neatly on the handkerchief and the footmarks.

Against the back-board of the bureau, where it would fit neatly when the drawer was in place, lay a plaster cast of a footmark.

And soon it came about that he no longer quite realized what it was they signifiedthese impressions left upon the snow by something nameless and untamed, always accompanied by the footmarks of the little French Canadian, his guide, his comrade, the man who had shared his tent a few hours before, chatting, laughing, even singing by his side.... V

Why, who should there be?" "There's fresh footmarks outside.

" "But he isn't in the habit of making a step three yards long, is he?" Hewitt asked, pointing at the last footmark and then at the door, which was quite that distance away from it.

Kentish looked at the footmarks, then at the door, then down the lane, and finally back toward the house.

" Hewitt returned to the cinder-path again, and once more examined the footmarks.

On the stairs and on the floor near them there are muddy footmarks.

A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks, made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

"One of their footmarks.

His last footmark was at the closed gate of a good-sized dwelling house.

There were trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark.

There is not a footmark here that could by any chance be his.

Then the gardener shouldered his spade, and finding a number of footmarks all over the place, specially about the bed of lilies, and certainly not those of a pony, he carefully obliterated them, and held his peace.