Heavily he tramped across to the old carved settle before the fire, and dropped down upon it, his whole bearing expressive of utter weariness.

Hundreds of our men were in their stocking-feet, or, rather, in their bare feet, as they tramped wearily through the burning sand and twisted roots.

"That's 'cause you're an ex-Governor"; and steadily she tramped along.

We heard them tramping past in the mist.

Libbie was crying silently, but the others tramped along cheerfully, singing, at Betty's suggestion, old college and school songs.

Each of these sections can be comfortably tramped by the average good walker in a morning or afternoon with plenty of time for "side issues" and rambling about the towns themselves in the evening.

Did our vagabond ethics necessitate our conscientiously tramping every foot of these "gritty paving-stones," we asked each other, as we entered upon a region of depressing suburbs, and we called a halt on the spot to discuss the point.

"If I were only stronger on my feet I would go with you everywhere; your husband ought to have shown you something of the country, and he was continually tramping about by himself.

We were, I dare say, a pretty pair,—he tramping doggedly before me, I following at his heels with his lantern and my pistol.

"It will keep the lad going a few months anyhow," he said to himself, as he tramped downstairs, glad that he'd been able to think of something; for, while the scheme was admirable as an advertisement, and would more than repay Messrs. Owens' outlay, its origin had been pure philanthropy.

Then, she had been waking to action at the beginning of a long cruise; now, a battered gull with gray, folded wings, she lay at the dock, pointing her bowsprit stiffly up to the dingy street where horses tramped endlessly over the cobblestones.

Buried races, Teutons and Cimbri, might tramp solemnly forth from those weird arcades.

" Crossing the river on a big snow-bridge below the point where our old enemy came thundering down the mountain-side, we tramped gaily through mud and mire and over slippery rocks until we were gladdened by the sight of our camp, dripping away peacefully in the midst of the weeping forest.

I had been tramping from desolate Cape Pitsoonda over miles and miles of sea holly and scrub through a district where were no people.

Rather hopelessly they tramped on.

Gendarmes guarded us while we waitedwe who the night before had slept in a scarlet-lined tent!and gendarmes hung at our heels as we and three patient hamals with the baggage tramped ignominiously through Chanak Kale's ruined streets.

And while Kelly tramped impotently about the room, he leaned his shoulders against the wall and stared into space.

The sounds contended with a thin, scattered strumming of cafe mandolins, the tinkle of glasses, the steady click of dominoes and backgammon; then were drowned in the harsh chatter of Arab coolies who, all grimed as black as Nubians, and shouldering spear-headed shovels, tramped inland, their long tunics stiff with coal-dust, like a band of chain-mailed Crusaders lately caught in a hurricane of powdered charcoal.

the sound of heavy footsteps; the clumsy, iron-shod Dal shoes tramped loudly upon the stone floor.

If they had "been in practice," they would have looked upon it as merely a "little tramp;" for, during the previous winter, they had often followed a fox all day without experiencing any serious inconvenience; but, as this was the first exercise of the kind they had had for almost a year, they felt the effects of it pretty severely.

The Path Grows Crooked In the sitting-room of apartment A, in the south wing of the Grand Hôtel Royal, Lord Vernon was tramping nervously up and down while his companions regarded him with evident anxiety.

Either the fugitives were unknown, or the natural secretiveness of an alien people forbade any reference to them, even among themselves; and meanwhile, as I have said, I tramped the streets nightly into the small hours of the morning.

The inspector tramped noisily into the little hall, leaving the door of the room wide open.

He told this to Roy, speaking in an undertone, as they tramped rapidly onwards under the threat of the lance-points behind them. '

"He was trying to get out and the tramp outside was trying to get in, but Smith held on to that door like a Briton.