dog the footsteps of
Example Sentences
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Jack agreed with him, and doubtless they would have constituted themselves a committee of two to "dog" the footsteps of the fat man, had not Cora firmly interfered.
From The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar by Penrose, Margaret
Nemesis seemed powerless to dog the footsteps of the lodger, retribution was incapable of tracking him down.
From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
And I, for one, will never believe the trail of the serpent to be so indelible that barefaced incongruity must dog the footsteps of civilisation.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
Some tragic fatality seems to dog the footsteps of this Government in all their dealings with Ireland.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
Then she would dog the footsteps of this girl, find out where she went, with a view of deducing from it what she did.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
