A clue that someone was present

Usage examples of footmark.

Nor did he examine closer the heavy footmarks he fancied he saw in the grass beyond the service yard.

Numerous footmarks were there and several half-burned caps were lying smoking on the ground.

While Audrey Noel was dressing sunbeams danced desperately on the white wall, like little lost souls with no to-morrow, or gnats that wheel and wheel in brief joy, leaving no footmarks on the air.

If once the path is opened by the track of some profound impression, that same impression, if repeated, or a similar one, is likely to find the old footmarks and follow them.

Jak touched the edges of the footmarks, looking at the way the sand crumbled in at his touch.

Hiram, slowly, cautiously, stealthily, following their trailing line of footmarks, mounted to the top of the hillock and peered down into the bowl beneath.

A gifted individual comes across some old footmark, stumbles on a chain of previous research and inquiry.

It is taken up de novo by some inventor, stimulated by the needs of his time, and falling again upon the track, he recovers the old footmarks, follows them up, and completes the work.

The earth on which he walked, the black earth, leaving phosphoric footmarks behind him, was composed of the mouldered bodies of millions of men who had passed away in the centuries during which the city existed.

He also spotted Strasser's footmarks, which meant that the third was the lieutenant, the man with the polished nunchaku sticks.

We find preserved in shale and slate, limestone, and sandstone, bones, shells, fibres, stems, fruits, footmarks, scratchings and the like, side by side with the ripple marks of the earliest tides and the pittings of the earliest rain-falls.