beaten track

I was there to track down the family of one of the most notorious defectors in Cuban history.

Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.

Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.

He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.