Spoor

The Hottentots were now sent on in advance to trace out the "spoor" -- in other words, the track of the lion. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The spoor was a wide road for a thousand men had passed along it and the wagons and gun carriages had left deep ruts. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

The spoor was a day old and it ran toward the north. ❋ Unknown (1919)

To find the spoor was a very easy matter, for the last stake had been driven in comparatively soft ground, and despite the fact that it was by this time almost pitch dark, a short search, aided by the light of the lanterns, disclosed the hoof prints of ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The story that follows, however, is less an investigation than an exorcism … The writing is exquisite and exacting, as when the narrator describes the dregs of whiskey in a glass as her father's "spoor," or recalls her lover's "dazzling Kabuki face." ❋ Unknown (2006)

They continued to follow the "spoor" of the two hounds, left so plainly for their guidance. ❋ Alan Douglas (N/A)

Towards evening scouts reported the "spoor" of the enemy, for the ground bore the impression of thousands of naked footprints and those of about a hundred booted men. ❋ Ernest [Illustrator] Prater (1917)

Within the last ten years the educated instinct that as a younger man taught him to follow the trail of an Indian, or the "spoor" of the Kaffir and the trek wagon, now leads him as a mining expert to the hiding-places of copper, silver, and gold, and, as he advises, great and wealthy syndicates buy or refuse tracts of land in Africa and Mexico as large as the State of New York. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)

Moreover, the "spoor" remained undisturbed in the road for a distance sufficient to indicate the general direction in which the party had gone, although it was lost in the ordinary signs of traffic within a few yards of the gates. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

As an instance of their powers of following a "spoor," it may be mentioned that on several occasions our captive suddenly darted off at a tangent with eyes to ground, and then started digging his heel in the sand to find where a lizard or iguana was that he had tracked to his hole. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)

( 'Akab) because, in the early wars and conquests of El-Islám, they fought during the day by the Moslems' side; and at night, when going over to the Nazarenes, they lost the "spoor" by wearing their sandals heel foremost, and by shoeing their horses the wrong way. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

They were now more than twenty miles from their starting-point, and still the black "spoor" of the locusts covered the plain. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

a noble virgin wilderness unmarred by man-trails; partly composed of lovely second growth scarcely scarred by that, vile spoor which is the price Nature pays for the white-hided invaders who walk erect, when not too drunk, and who foul and smear and stain and desolate water and earth and air around them. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Companies like Google and Yahoo can already sniff through our digital spoor to personalize advertisements and search results. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was just as massive as the four day old spoor, but fresh, actually still steaming in the freezing June mist. ❋ Jay Kirk (2010)

They'd found spoor higher than he ever would have guessed, above the timberline, at 14,000 feet, and a little higher in the sphagnum marshes where the air was thin as plasma and sulphur cold. ❋ Jay Kirk (2010)

His traces and spoor and fingerprints are to be found all over the work of those whom he so strongly mentored. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Apparently, this batch of moths arrived in a bag of beans, if I am interpreting the spoor correctly. ❋ Heresluck (2009)

[I know] you've had another woman in our [bed] because [I smell] her spoor!!! ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2022)

Dude1: hey theres [MR Smith] Dude2: here he comes MR Smith:hey wat are you doing Dude3: having lunch MR Smith: THis is [Maddness]!! come to my offce after school for some one on one meeting. Dude1:ok Dude2:ha ha u might be spoored whacht your backside Dude1: ha ha did you see his face Dude2:"This is [maddness]!!, this Is Spoor Time!!!" ❋ Bobo Me (2007)

Amy Spoors has been [round] like [twos] on a [fag] ❋ Beatrice Hughs (2019)

Person one: Hello, you're quite late! Person two: Of course I'm late! I am a [very busy] person! Have you done your homework yet? How about your class work? And your [coursework], where is that? [I have no time] for incompetence. Person one: Okay, okay, don't give me the Spoors Treatment! ❋ Snodawg (2006)

[trump]: “[who am i] making fun of on twitter this week?” [kellyanne]: “julia spoor, sir!” ❋ Especiallycarrots (2018)

When the [bat] made contact with the side of his head he received the full Alex spoor treatment: [no more] [feeding] himself, no more orgasms, no more complete sentances ❋ Vogla (2013)

[YMCA]? Thats like [Tom] Spoors [central]?! Tom Spoors Syndrome ❋ Joe & Tom (2006)