Crossword clues for footfall
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Footfall \Foot"fall`\, n.
A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a
footstep.
--Shak.
Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
--Poe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The sound made by a footstep. 2 (context chiefly British uncountable English) foot (pedestrian) traffic.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1986, and was a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to our solar system from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Usage examples of "footfall".
Maggie with excited touches tried to improve her setting of the table, aquiver with expectancy and suspense at the nearness of the meeting-- every nerve of audition strained to catch the first footfall upon the stairs.
The Shadow had been conscious of footfalls in the adjoining room that terminated with the opening of the door just as Kelford turned to get the billiard cue.
Listener spotted a gaggle of juvenile coelurosaurs, gamely stalking their prey among the tree-trunk legs of the herbivores, at every moment risking death from a carelessly placed footfall or tail twitch.
But their cries had not been entirely fruitless, for now I heard answering shouts and the footfalls of many men running and the clank of accouterments and the commands of officers.
He tried to ignore the brisk footfalls as Diegan spiked the candle in a holder on the carved oak table, laid over with the drawings and maps that outlined his new city of Avenor.
Nothing but the dull, plopping footfalls of a mule leaving the hayrack and passing Longarm on its way outdoors.
Some of them were vast pits filled with sharp-edged rubble, while others were dents little larger than the footfalls Icebones might make in a field of mud.
Wetted footfall, the car door opening and then slamming, the metal-m lic clicking of our seat belts.
When the lockset on the outside of the door was cranked open, he was wide awake and straining to make out the footfalls of his jailers before they entered the room.
He footfalls quavered to the very core of his being as he carefully climbed the stone steps to the presence of the terrifying calf-headed image of the Moloch, the fire god of the nether world.
Indisputably there were several Selenites, perhaps a considerable number, in this space, for we could hear the noises of their intercourse, and faint sounds that I identified as their footfalls.
The beasts were close, so close, the thump of their footfalls like subwoofers in the ground.
And I should evermore be vext with thee In hanging robe or vacant ornament, Or ghostly footfall echoing on the stair.
He was still unarmed, except for the plaeryin bol. The lift came in sight, but he heard running footfalls be-hind him.
She bent to read the label which explained the symbols of these st events, and heard movement behind her - a single footfall, brush of stone against cloth.