dog the footsteps of
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He therefore set at least three men, or women, to dog the footsteps of the suspect.
From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert George Jenkins
I wondered what perverse fate had driven him for eight years to dog the footsteps of a girl whose charm was due to qualities naturally distasteful to him.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather
On land ill-success continued to dog the footsteps of the allies.
From History of Holland by George Edmundson
Then she would dog the footsteps of this girl, find out where she went, with a view of deducing from it what she did.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
And I, for one, will never believe the trail of the serpent to be so indelible that barefaced incongruity must dog the footsteps of civilisation.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
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