Strange how long the soil keeps the impression of any continuous treading, even after grass has overgrown it.

I closed the panelling behind me, leaving the church as it had been on the day when, I saw the little hungry mouse treading sacred places.

Meanwhile the incessant treading continued unabated, although two long hours had passed since its commencement.

Now stepped they a moment about each other, light-treading for all their weighty armour, and with long blades advanced; then, of a sudden they closed, and immediately the air shivered to the ring and grind of flashing, whirling steel.

I closed the panelling behind me, leaving the church as it had been on the day when, I saw the little hungry mouse treading sacred places.

It is a broad and solid pathway until halfway down, where it assumes the character of a goat-track, being a mere treading down of the loose shale of which the enormous cliff is formed.

" It was late when he came in sight of the house; it had been a long tramp across the tracks, and hard; he being stung by a bitter wind from the east all the way, tired with the monotonous treading of the sleepers, and with crouching in perilous niches to let the trains go by.

And, indeed, it should keep off from us any small thing, and should be like to save us from any monstrous Brute treading upon us; but otherwise, it did be but a poor affair.

The noise of the elements was indeed frightful; and it was heightened by the voice of the sable steed, like that of a spirit of darkness; but the whole, as we have just hinted, was as nothing to the deep, solemn, mysterious treading of the Red Man.

"Hark!" said he: and, in a while, as they listened, upon the stillness came a rustle of leaves and thereafter a creeping step drawing slowly nearer: then swift and soft-treading, Walkyn stole out into the shadows.

From the window of the cars I saw a man with his bare feet in a tub treading grapes, for the purpose of making wine.

They snarled and snapped like so many beasts, their voices unrecognizable, the stronger treading the weaker to the deck.