footstep

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One was told who built this facade, who added that wing, who was imprisoned in yonder tower; where Queen Elizabeth slept, and the foot of what martyr imprinted the Bloody Footstep on the threshold.

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Hawthorne, Julian

In the middle of this enclosure stands a block of rock some 10 or 11 feet high, which, on the extreme top, has a depression, the divine Sri-pada, or Holy Footstep.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

"What think you of the Bloody Footstep?" asked he.

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In August, 1855, during his consulate in Liverpool, he visited Smithell's Hall, near Bolton, and heard the legend of the Bloody Footstep.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

Author's note.—"Referring to places and people in England: the Bloody Footstep sometimes."

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel