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Definition of Footfalls
1. footfall [n] - See also: footfall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footfalls
Literary usage of Footfalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slopes of Helicon: And Other Poems by Lloyd Mifflin (1898)
"... footfalls on the Stairs WHEN morning from the clouds of roseate ... And stepping
softly, hear the muffled tread Of footfalls on the stairs. ..."
2. The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated (1870)
"And the blending of their footfalls Makes a melody complete. I can hear It In
the sunlight, Then it seems а carol gay ; And they enter with the ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1874)
"I hear slow footfalls, in the night, Of fates upon his track,— О love, I cannot
let you go ! That will not let me rest. I cannot keep you back ! ..."