The sound of footsteps grew closer.
He heard footsteps in the darkness and a black figure appeared.
He withdrew a dagger he.d purposely buried there, never intending to follow in the footsteps of Andre.s enforcer role.
The footsteps started again, this time in retreat.
His footsteps sounded down the hallway and he continued calling her name frantically.
Footsteps on the stairs were the Deans' signal to prepare for breakfast.
He did not even hear his mother's footsteps as she came into the room.
Several minutes later, Evelyn's footsteps sounded on the wooden stairs.
I followed in my wife's footsteps.
The footsteps were soft, but it sounded like more than one person.
His footsteps made no sounds, and the infected humans staggering through the streets walked through him.
Footsteps sounded behind her and she whirled, half expecting to see Josh.
Too late, she'd heard the footsteps behind her and felt something smash into her head.
The words weren't out of my mouth when we heard his door open and footsteps retreating down the hall.
The drape parted, followed by shuffled footsteps, and Martha opened the door.
She waited until Moira's footsteps faded before dialing her father.
The footsteps of those entering the kitchen were solid against the stone floor.
The rustling sound of nearing footsteps on the forest floor created panic.
I think that's your fate, to follow in your father's footsteps.
He paused when he heard footsteps crunch on the straw behind the fence.
He ran, the fury of his footsteps drowned out by ragged breathing.
Gama Barros and Costa Lobo followed closely in the footsteps of Herculano, the first by a Historia da Administragao publica em Portugal nos Seculos XII.
It had never occurred to me that I would be asked to tread in the footsteps of some very august previous presenters.
At first, these were slight, unexplained noises, sounds of labored breathing, and footsteps walking through the house.
Why can't I hear the crackle of the flames all around me, or the echo of the footsteps around the walls?
He continued to sing at his local church, where, following in his father's footsteps, he became deacon.
A thin carpet in a dark color does not deaden your footsteps.
A baby dinosaur, just hatched, would follow in the footsteps of its parent, perhaps only a short distance from the nest.
Still rather dizzy in the head, she heard Freddy's footsteps thumping louder and louder behind her upon the metal grated floor.
Footsteps into History are evening walks through The Historic dockyard, the world's most complete dockyard from the Georgian and Victorian periods.
This way have so many dreamers come, and we are seven more, following in their footsteps to America.
Monday 15th May 2006 Reminded of something you forgot to finish a few days ago, you may need to retrace footsteps.
He heard footsteps running off toward Rosemary Lane, which is now Royal Mint Street.
Nevertheless, inexplicable footsteps are still heard in the locality.
Not far away is the pub of the same name, which has been haunted in the past by phantom footsteps.
He also reported that on a number of occasions he had been followed up the stairs by ghostly footsteps.
There's no mysterious footsteps in the night, no groans or ectoplasmic blood forming on the floors.
Several members of the group reported hearing small footsteps on the wooden floor and later on louder heavier footsteps.
The sound of heavy footsteps have also been heard at the top of the landing.
Son of stalwart, Chris Phillips, Olly, has decided that the time has come to follow in his fathers footsteps.
They were walking in Andy's father's footsteps.
Curry kids are full of all-round promise Former British Amateur champion David Curry's two sons followed in dad's footsteps over the weekend.
Following in her brother's footsteps, Lily has also begun to pursue a career in show jumping.
Ms Ashley admitted she was surprised at her father's request, but did not feel under pressure following in her mother's footsteps.
The footsteps of the little company were dying away down the deserted street, when a sudden frenzy of desire took possession of me.
The Lover's footsteps take him to a lush orchard enclosed by a high wall.
Following in her footsteps, a stream of models with rock-star hairstyles, back-combed rockabilly quiffs and beehives strutted down the runway.
I do not supplicate charity at your doors Nor do I belittle myself at the footsteps of your chamber So will you be angry?
Day of the Dead, chapter three of George Romero's mighty zombie trilogy, has big footsteps to follow.. .
This could be seen at its crassest in the vulgar bourgeois economists, but the vulgar bourgeois economists, but the vulgar Marxists soon followed in their footsteps.
Laplace, in whose footsteps Poisson followed, regarded him almost as his son.
Then, all at once, he heard footsteps.
He could hear its footsteps.
It will passively recognize you by recognizing your face or your voice or your breathing pattern or the pattern of your footsteps or, most likely, your scent.
I feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers.
Yet perchance the first who came to this well have left some trace of their footsteps.
Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother's criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard coming from the study.
He went on reading to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the sound of footsteps.
From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who were walking, driving past, and settling down all around.
At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna Mikhaylovna's voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps.
From information he had received the evening before, from the sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked.
Only when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging.
On entering the ballroom the regular hum of voices, footsteps, and greetings deafened Natasha, and the light and glitter dazzled her still more.
In the hall the porch door opened, and someone asked, "At home?" and then footsteps were heard.
Burning lips were pressed to hers, and at the same instant she felt herself released, and Helene's footsteps and the rustle of her dress were heard in the room.
He heard hurried footsteps beyond the door, both halves of it were opened rapidly; all was silent and then from the study the sound was heard of other steps, firm and resolute--they were those of Napoleon.
The voices and footsteps of the many servants and of the peasants who had come with the carts resounded as they shouted to one another in the yard and in the house.
She was roused from her reverie by the talk of the maids in the next room (which was theirs) and by the sound of their hurried footsteps going to the back porch.
Nobody drove through the streets and footsteps were rarely heard.
She heard the sound of quick footsteps in the quiet street.
Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining room; a few minutes later he heard footsteps and Princess Mary entered with Natasha.
At that moment they heard the sound of the door pulley and footsteps in the hall and anteroom, as if someone had arrived.
Natasha ran with light footsteps to the anteroom.
A fluent Arab speaker who has himself served in the SAS, he retraced the footsteps of the patrol.
I have made my footsteps unbecoming by walking in shameful deeds.
The rasp of his hand against the material made him almost miss the approaching footsteps and snap of a twig.
Who scatters every lovely springtime blossom Beneath the footsteps of the one we love?
They were also perplexed by ' unseen hands ' knocking objects off shelves, stealthy footsteps on landings, ' cold spots '.
No doors opening, no lights coming on, no thud of footsteps toward a telephone.
He went back to America some years later, this time to Mississippi where he trod in the footsteps of his Delta blues heroes.
Day of the Dead, chapter three of George Romero 's mighty zombie trilogy, has big footsteps to follow...
This could be seen at its crassest in the vulgar bourgeois economists, but the vulgar Marxists soon followed in their footsteps.
Re-live history as you walk in the footsteps of the kings and queens who have been entertained at Hedingham.
Carpet nap runs in one direction, which means that footsteps and other tracks will show up in the carpet more frequently depending on the direction of the traffic.
Following in the footsteps of the Acai craze, this raises the question of whether or not the claims made are true, and whether or not Maqui juice is just the latest product to make unrealistic promises based on a tiny berry grown in Chile.
Following in the footsteps of Nick and Jessica and Carmen and Dave, Travis Barker and soon to be ex-wife Shanna Makler are parting company.
He followed in his father's footsteps and attended the University of Tulsa on a football scholarship.
After taking some time off to work, Dr. Phil decided to follow in his father's footsteps again; this time into the field of psychology.
Following in her dad's footsteps, young Willow has also turned to music.
Bindi is following in her father's footsteps as the host of Bindi the Jungle Girl, a wildlife documentary presented by the Discovery Kids Network.
Nick had anger management issues and battled the insecurities of following in his famous brother's footsteps.
Following in the footsteps of the wildly popular Survivor, The Amazing Race created a new spin on survival.
Participant Laila Ali, the daughter of boxer Muhammad Ali and Veronica Porsche, is following in her father's footsteps and is a famous female boxer and personal trainer.
Donald Trump is a real estate developer who followed in his father's footsteps to become one of the world's wealthiest men.
LaToya Jackson has followed in her brother Michael's footsteps by having so many plastic surgeries performed that it looks almost freaky.
Amy Winehouse will follow in the footsteps of other young celebs such as Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and be treated at an undisclosed facility.
Celebrity Apprentice follows in the footsteps of Donald Trump and Mark Burnett's once popular reality show The Apprentice, with a twist.
Continuing to ride his wave of success, Kimmel finally realized his life long dream of following in the footsteps of his childhood idol David Letterman and debuted his talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2003.
His daughter, Gulnara, seems to be following in her dictator daddy's footsteps by coming under fire for forcing child labor and embezzling from the small, impoverished nation's revenues to pad her family's bank accounts.
At an early age, she decided to follow in her older brother Kirk's footsteps and pursue an acting career.
Other actors from Cincinnati, Ohio, can only hope to someday follow in the footsteps of Roy Rogers and Doris Day.
Trump is still one of the richest celebs despite having two ex-wives, and is teaching his children to follow in his footsteps.
Children have been enjoying the look and feel of these tough outfits since the early 1900s when OshKosh B'Gosh first introduced them to kids, so they could follow in their dads' footsteps.
Born September 3, 1986 in Carlsbad, California, Shaun White began snowboarding at the early age of six years old, following in his older brother Jesse's footsteps.
She was the first Boomer to collect Social Security and there are about 80 million Boomers following in her footsteps.
Sports eyewear is also very popular with the young set, continuing in the belief that children follow in the footsteps of grown ups when it comes to their fashion choices.
Following in the footsteps of Guitar Hero 2, is wildly addicting and far too much fun for its own good.
In the beginning of the game, you are following in the footsteps of the Fellowship of the Ring and try to help them turn the tides of war against Saruman and the evil forces that seek to possess the Ring of Power.
There is little background music, so when you're not on a particular task all is quiet except ambient noises and Spiderman's footsteps.
Buzz recreates the game show mold on the PS2 and SingStar follows in the footsteps of Karaoke Revolution by letting gamers take a break from the controller to sing.
Many of the concept 4G iPhones follow in the footsteps of the MacBook Air and are unbelievably thin.
Largely following in the footsteps of the first Dash, the newer T-Mobile Dash 3G came in a similar style but with all sorts of improvements and new features.
Following in the footsteps of its musical cousin American Idol, America's Best Dance Crew has taken the nation by storm.
Following in the footsteps of his idol, Sammy Davis Jr., he worked to expand his talents beyond that of a tap dancer.
Rumor has it, she made a copycat move, following in the footsteps of her new best friend (another "something new"), Victoria Beckham, by chopping off her hair in favor of chin-length tresses.
Some middle children follow in the footsteps of a sibling, while others choose the career that's most likely to raise a few eyebrows.
Following in the footsteps of the popular Webkinz line, each stuffed animal comes with a code that allows kids to have fun with a virtual pet at the TY website.
If you're buying an Asscher cut diamond engagement ring, you may be trying to follow in the footsteps of Aiden on the HBO show, Sex and the City.
If he's forced to comply and follow in the footsteps of others, you'll witness another Aries characteristic, rebellion.
Don't turn around to look if you hear footsteps behind you on Halloween night.
Visitors hear footsteps, doors opening and closing and whispers.
The investigating family reported hearing the telltale footsteps and odd noises.
A few of the phenomena that visitors report here include an apparition of a man in an Air Force uniform and sounds of banging and footsteps.
Footsteps are commonly heard, and many apparitions of a dark man have also been reported.
Later, the old mansion was converted into a boarding house, and residents immediately began reporting strange sounds and footsteps.
Lorelai is a trail blazer, defining herself in opposition to her family and daughter Rory followed in her footsteps, sharing many of her mother's quirkier traits.
At its heart, this series is a family drama that follows in the footsteps of series such as Our House and 7th Heaven.
Following in Hayek's footsteps, Jennifer Lopez announced early in 2009 that she was seeking to import Rebelde Way, a teen focused telenovela from Argentina that spotlights the trials and tribulations of a teen pop band.
Tradition may also mean following in the footsteps of ancestors, such as in traditional Japanese tattooing.
The show follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, Real World Hollywood.
Pete turned away and his soft footsteps faded into the darkness.
When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.
The sound of footsteps running down the hall drew her attention, and she flung herself backwards as the maid with the butcher knife tried to cut her.
She knew what it meant in her dream but was terrified of following her footsteps.
She was about to walk away in defeat and take her place in a dark corner watching the partygoers when she heard the sounds of approaching footsteps.
Just when she was about to dart away from the door and hide behind any piece of furniture she could find, the footsteps stopped.
She heard footsteps from the direction of the conference room and offered a smile as Ne'Rin rounded the corner.
The pair was interrupted from further speculation by the sound of Martha's laughter and footsteps bounding down the stairs.
He stalked off into the forest, away from the castle and cliff. Toby clambered through the brush and trees after him, the angel's footsteps loud where Rhyn's were silent. Rhyn found a deer path and followed it until he reached a snowy meadow. Crossing it, he continued to look for a place to stash the angel where the kid wouldn't freeze to death. After another hour of walking, he found a small pocket in the roots of a massive tree.
Katie heard Deidre's footsteps stop abruptly and turned around. The woman was facing the opposite direction.
I could hear footsteps and then the door swung open.
Then she heard his footsteps coming into the kitchen and saw the bobbing flashlight as he opened the back door.
The sounds of his footsteps coming back up the stairs made her cringe.
This prolific author copied, and so imported into Ottoman literature, a didactic style of ghazel-writing which was then being introduced in Persia by the poet Sa'ib; but so closely did the pupil follow in the footsteps of his master that it is not always easy to know that his lines are intended to be Turkish.
He announced his intention "to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," took over all but one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of 1837, already prepared for before he took office.
In geography he found a field hardly touched since Samuel Bochart, in whose footsteps he followed in the Spicilegium geographiae hebraeorum exterae post Bochartum (1769-1780); and to his impulse we owe the famous Eastern expedition conducted by Carsten Niebuhr.
Catholic in spirit rather than dogmatic, John ranks himself at times among the Academics, " since, in those things about which a wise man may doubt, I depart not from their footsteps."
The Byzantine school of medicine, which closely corresponds to the Byzantine literary and historical schools, followed closely in Galen's footsteps, and its writers were chiefly compilers and encyclopaedists.
The conquering Turks followed in their footsteps (560-580).
Thus nature works, and so, following in her footsteps, works the Japanese artist.
But the serious students of later times find themselves unable to follow in his footsteps.
A whole series of philosophic thinkers - Drtina, Foustka, Radl and Benes - followed in Masaryk's footsteps.
The third, however, was made of the sound of a cat's footsteps, a man's beard, the roots of a mountain, a fish's breath and a bird's spittle.
Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.
Ritz in the paper already mentioned follows in the footsteps of Riecke and elaborates the argument.
Following, however, in the footsteps of Schelling, he idealizes the one extended and thinking substance into one mental being; but he thinks that its essence consists in unconscious intelligence and will, of which all individual intelligent wills are only activities.
He went to Rome in Winckelmann's footsteps; it was the antique he sought, and his interest in the artists of the Renaissance was virtually restricted to their imitation of classic models.
Neild, who in 1812 followed in the footsteps of John Howard, found that the old conditions remained unchanged.
We have hitherto considered only the followers of Stjernhjelm; we have now to speak of an important writer who followed in the footsteps of Rosenhane.
A similar tone of exaggerated depreciation of the Massoretic Hebrew text, coloured by polemical bias against Protestantism, mars his greatest work, the posthumous Exercitationes biblicae de hebraeici graecique textus sinceritate (1660), in which, following in the footsteps of Cappellus, but with incomparably greater learning, he brings irrefragable arguments against the then current theory of the absolute integrity of the Hebrew text and the antiquity of the vowel points.
Frontenac, following in this respect in the footsteps of his predecessors, had issued trading licences which permitted the sale of intoxicants.
This was why he'd followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps in running a militia to challenge the elite's power and affluence while the rest of the people served the elites or went into the regular military, the only two reputable professions.
What if his successor refused to tread in his father's footsteps or, still worse, tried to destroy his father's work?
At dawn I was awakened by the smell of coffee, the rattling of guns, and the heavy footsteps of the men as they strode about, promising themselves the greatest luck of the season.
Deedy Melanson is a former teen pageant queen with two young daughters who have followed in her footsteps.
Born in 1989, the self-professed "music fiend" is following in his father's footsteps.
She idolizes her older sister and hopes to follow in her footsteps and attend college.
She is both following in their footsteps and out for a little payback.
Foley Effects - Requiring precise synchronization, these sounds correspond to on screen actions, like footsteps.
When she is killed, he resigns from the military to follow in his grandfather's footsteps as a lawyer.
If you are the adventurous type, you can walk the Tongariro Crossing and climb up Mount Doom and follow in the footsteps of Frodo and Sam in Return of the King.
The Jan Marini hair care line was born, following in the footsteps of its successful skincare sister.
Following in the footsteps of the IRS, most states provide taxpayers with a means to check the status of their state tax refund.
I was fumbling with the window when I heard heavy footsteps move close to my door.
What if his successor refused to tread in his father's footsteps?
Following, unknown to himself, in the footsteps of Young, he deduced the principle of interference from the circumstance that the darkness of the interior bands requires the co-operation of light from both sides of the obstacle.
I felt approaching footsteps, I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother.
The heavy thump of footsteps on the stairs interrupted their conversation.
The immediate successors of Akhenaton strove to follow in his footsteps, but the conservative nature of Egypt quickly asserted itself.
Her footsteps echoed off the block walls.