If a rug gets a damp dirty footprint, what the hell, toss it out and roll out another one, that's the palace spirit.

A tin of Johnson's baby powder stood on the window ledge and the nurse's tiny damp footprints showed on the carpet tiles.

The researcher walked surefootedly toward the doorway, leaving behind a trail of damp footprints that had already begun to fade as she slipped from the laboratory.

When he first found the armchair empty, Preston had noticed the runt's damp footprints made patterns with his own.

She shook the water from her raincoat and padded down the hallway, crepe soles leaving a pattern of damp footprints in her wake.

Mairelon followed him up the stairs without a backward glance, leaving a trail of damp and dirty footprints.

Look at the crumbling old brick walls, and the flowers in their long deep beds, and the path itself with Armand's damp footprints!

He ran up the impossible stairs, and as his boot left each one behind with its damp footprint, it faded away, vanished.

She left damp footprints on the beige carpet when she walked to the window.