footmark

Example Sentences

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Dar's late intervention on Prior's behalf also cost them heavily, the umpire having made his decision in the affirmative then noting Johnson's footmark on the crease and asking for a check.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

These prints, together with another footmark found on the same cardboard cover—the bold and bloody impression of a Cat’s Paw half sole— were the only “serious clues” the investigators could claim.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

A broken toy would have been as great an offence in that treasured spot as a stray cat; a little footmark on the verbena bed, a kicked-up stone on the gravel walk, were punishable offences.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

Tell Dollops to measure and make a drawing of every footmark in and about the place.

From The Riddle of the Night by Hanshew, Thomas W.

The following typographic errors have been repaired: Page 8—observe amended to observed—"... gravely observed that the footmark looked as if the foot which made it ..."

From Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by Frere, M.