He heard the bare feet hurrying and the staysail sheets rasping over the stays: he waited, waited, until the wind was one point on her weather bow, and then a little louder, 'Mainsail haul!'

As the fourth day was darkening into night, he heard sounds in the distance; feet hurrying in the corridors, horses' hooves trampling in the courtyard, men calling to one another in command.

It was a fine day, blue and cold and still, but Mother walked as though into a strong wind, bent forward at the waist with her feet hurrying behind in short, busy steps.

Inside the room, he heard feet hurrying across the floor.

Yamazaki hears feet hurrying by, perhaps an arm's length away, behind the cardboard wall.

A tramping and squelching of feet, hurrying even though they did not know where they were going.

There was the sound of feet hurrying away.

He heard this rather than saw it, and then he heard an even happier sound: feet hurrying toward him.

Her attention now focused, she registered consciously what she'd been hearing in the background-voices raised, and feet hurrying in pursuit.