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"Footprint" Quotes from Famous Books

... St. Patrick,' too, is full of fine, wild, natural imagery. The boy is described as a shepherd on the hills of Down, and there is a legend, well told, of the angel Victor coming to him, and leaving a gigantic footprint on a rock from which he sprang back into heaven. The legend, of course, rose from some remarkable natural feature of the spot; as it is first told, a shadowy unreality hangs over it, and it is doubtful whether it is more than a vision of the boy; ...

— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude

... in a little hollow, like a giant's footprint in the downs, and sheep and various small ...

— This Is the End • Stella Benson

... trail for miles," answered Elmer, "and sure I ought to know what his footprint looks like. Here it is on this clay just beside the sluice. Wait till I cross and see if he made the other side ...

— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas

... a place where Zeke crossed over from one side of the way to the other. He stepped in the footprint of the other man in one place. Zeke's foot is bigger so I'm sure it was his print. He could not step on the other's footprint ...

— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay

... Chapter I. The Egyptians, like other nations, often apply their own names, which have a meaning, to the older terms which have become unintelligible. Thus, near Cairo, the old goddess, Athor el-Nb ("of the Gold"), became Asr el-Nabi ("the Footprint of the Apostle"). ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton

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