footmark

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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

An elephant couldn’t make a footmark upon it, much less a horse.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.

He is frightened by a parrot calling him by name, and by the strangely picturesque incident of the footmark on the sand; but, on the whole, he takes his imprisonment with preternatural stolidity.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

How numerous, then, may have been the softer animals of the ancient world, which have not left even a footmark to certify their existence to coming generations!

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward