Now as he lay thus, after some while he heard a swift, light footfall, the whisper of mail, and knew that she stood above him; yet he heeded not, wherefore at last she spake, sweet-voiced and gentle.

And, as a rule, she perceived and recognized him far off; but on that particular night, such was the deep silence that she could distinguish his footfall on the echoing road long before his dark, slim figure showed against the pale ground.

Some one dragged a chair out toward the railing, then seemed to change his mind and began to pace the veranda, his footfalls resounding on the dry boards with singular loudness.

Another sound, too, at length broke the stillnessa stealthy footfall on the deck.

There was a blur before the lady's eyesa buzzing in her earsand the footfall she had listened for so long was now unheard as it came slowly to her side.

Victor motioned her silently to a door at the further end, but before either of them could reach it there came a sudden footfall on the other side, the handle turned sharply, and it opened.

The floor was overlaid with thick rugs which deadened her footfalls.

"Yes," murmured Anna, hoping to drown the footfall, and with a double meaning though with sincere tenderness, "you are stealing now, not meaning to.

The turf of the parade I was crossing had perhaps felt no footfall more often than his.

In this garden all the hot noon I await thy fluttering footfall 5 Through the twilight.

Flip-flap, flip-flap went her footfalls through the still heat of the day, and persistently, incurably, her umbrella sought to slip from under the elbow that retained it.

Who worksgives blessings and commands; Kings glory in the orb and crown Be ours the glory of our hands, Long in these wallslong may we greet Your footfalls, Peace and Concord sweet!

A carpet of needles hushed Siner's footfalls and spread a Sabbatical silence through the grove.

" The lower footfalls ascended to join the footfalls on the upper floor.

And when at last you came, I should know your footfall; yes, I should know it ever so far away.

It was so bright, indeed, that he crossed the room to look out at the sky, stepping very softly, for he had grown accustomed to lightening his footfall, and now unconsciously the murmuring voices of the talkers made him move stealthilynot to steal upon them, but to keep from breaking in on their talk.

She glided back, but turned to meet another footfall, possibly Kincaid's, and felt her anger rise against her will as she confronted only the inadequate Irby.

Then he turned and went away, noiselessly as he had come, the thick-piled carpet of the anteroom muffling his footfalls.

What I heard was the sound of the stumble, followed by the quick thud, thud, of the descending shot-bag, exactly resembling the footfalls of a heavy man running down the stairs barefoot.

These streets that sound no footfall of an angry multitude, but that listen to the footfall of a quiet natureyes, it is beautiful in the early morning.

The lad seemed in pain, for as the girls approached, their footfalls deadened by the soft dust of the road, they heard him murmur: "Ouch!

And down there, alone with you, not worried by threatening footfalls in the corridors, undisturbed by [noise of drums outside] those cruel guardians of your freedom, I would tell the most charming Princess of Europe that WILHELMINE.

Hazing has "gone out" at Harwell, and so, when at about nine the two boys beard many footfalls outside their door, and when in response to West's loud "Come" five mysterious and muffled figures in black masks entered they were somewhat puzzled what to think.