Behind this rose a steep green hill covered with an apple-orchard, through which a little thread of a footpath wound up to another arbor which stood on the summit relieved against the sky.

I and my young friend W.S. sought the cleanest part of the way by walking in the course made for the water, which was green and clean; but so soon as we came by the inspectors, who are mostly employed on the road, one of them told us we must mind for the future and keep the right footpath, or pay 6d.

A footpath wound its way gently down the sloping land till it reached the broad river bottom; creeping through the long swamp grasses that bent over it on either side, it came out on the edge of the Missouri.

With painted faces, and wearing broad white bosoms of elk's teeth, they hurried down the narrow footpath to Haraka Wambdi's wigwam.

I spied them coming up the footpath leading to our cottage.

At length retracing the uncertain footpath scaling the precipitous embankment, I seek the level lands where grow the wild prairie flowers.

On her way home from school she was accustomed to follow a footpath through a lonely wood, and here one evening her body was found.

The most famous lovers' walk in England is the footpath from Stratford, leading about one mile westward through meadows to the hamlet of Shottery.

But they spent a delightful couple of hours together, strolling along the footpath through the meadows in the direction of Finchale Priory.

With a noncommissioned officer to guide us we climbed up a miry footpath to the crest of a low hill; and from a distance of perhaps a hundred yards we looked across at what was left of Fort Loncin, one of the principal defenses.

We go along the fields, down the long hill until we strike into a footpath which leads through the woods to the road called "Paves du Roi" and on to the canal, from which a walk of five minutes takes us to the Marne.

The footpath to the Hall lay through the churchyard, about a quarter of a mile from the village.

The watchman shook his head, and setting the barrow in motion, proceeded along a narrow footpath across the fields.

Along the riverside was the public footpath.

About a quarter of a mile further up the stream is a large Sioux village, separated from the hut by a stretch of woods through which runs a well-worn footpath.

There is hardly a footpath in all that wild region, nor any place to find rest or shelter; and the woods are full of wild beasts, and dreadful dragons lurk in the marshes, and many cruel robber giants dwell in the mountains.

He stuck his walking-sticka very nice Poona-Penang lawyer into the turf that edged the footpath, and commanded the dry wood to blossom.

Yet, sultry as it is, the footpath is a pleasant one to follow.

At the left of the village, a footpath winds to the summit of a wasted bank, among billows of standing grasses.

One well-worn track led down towards the footpath that ultimately enters the London Road; a fainter track led, as I knew, to an old chalk-pit where, in mysterious caverns, the farm carts rested through the winter months.

"I soon struck the familiar footpath and set forth at a brisk pace to catch the late train from Gravesend.

But in returning they invariably keep to the raised footpath on the far side, that brings the women's skirts and men's smallclothes into view.

From the footpath a high bank (where now the primroses have given place to stitchwort and ragged robin) rises to an orchard; so steeply that the apple-blossom drops into the lane.

This well bubbles up under a low vault scooped in the bank by the footpath and hung with hart's-tongue ferns.

Thus furnished, they bade her good-bye for the day, left the dubious 'Dolph in her charge, and tip-toeing past the rear of the caravan where slept the dreaded Gavel, gained the meadow's end, passed a weed-grown ruinated lock below the churchyard, and struck into a footpath that led down-stream between the river and a pretty hanging copse.