dog the footsteps of
Example Sentences
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Suspicion and mistrust began to dog the footsteps of the bright young girl; she was no longer a universal favorite—some of the girls even openly expressed their dislike of her.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade
Some tragic fatality seems to dog the footsteps of this Government in all their dealings with Ireland.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
He may meet them anywhere, but is especially apt to dog the footsteps of the sorcerer who killed him.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
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
Nemesis seemed powerless to dog the footsteps of the lodger, retribution was incapable of tracking him down.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
