I shall try to tread lightly, as one who is indeed on hallowed ground.

Finally he moved away from that spot, but treading very softly, and holding his breath to listen, for it seemed to him that the forest had something to tell him, and that if he listened he would hear the leaves speaking to him.

To and fro across the floor John trod lightly with his precious burden.

Quite accidentally I trod on her favorite corn; she got mad and changed me into a robin, and regretted it ever afterward.

She trod softly on the polished floor, wearing felt slippers.

The place was empty, save for a medley of arms stacked in corners, wherefore, treading cautiously, the friar led them a-down a narrow passage and so to a second and larger chamber where burned a fire of logs.

Here the Albanian proudly treads the ground Half-whispering, there the Greek is heard to prate.

Having to be in character, his way is to tread heavily on the border-line which divides familiarity from respect.) QUEEN.

Turn and mix it well every few days, and when well and equally fermented, which will be from ten to fourteen days, make it into a bed 4 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep, mixing it well together and beating or treading it firmly.

But in her agitation she forgot his warning, forgot to tread warily, and missed her footing on the steps.

Mother of angels, softly tread, Perchance to thee 'tis given, To hold communings with the dead, Who live and reign in heaven.

Above its distant, glittering rim Streams o'er the waves a flood of gold, To gild the mountains, bare and grim, Which guard this exit, as of old, The sombre sentries of two seas, The Pillars reared by Hercules; Gibraltar,on the northern shore, By conquering Moors once proudly trod,

The stage how loosely does Astraea tread, Who fairly puts all characters to bed!

She seemed about to speak, but checked the impulse, and he continued: "Treading noiselessly, I bolted up the remaining stairs and went into the dark room at the top.

Ralph was of the opinion that there were certain features of social etiquette which ought to be ruthlessly trodden upon, but he could think of nothing suitable to say in regard to the point so frequently brought up by Miriam, and, walking somewhat moodily to the front door, he saw Dr. Tolbridge approaching in his buggy.

" They stood and watched the miserable Saunders tread gingerly up the filthy street, his knees crooking outwardly from time to time, his toes always touching the ground first, very much as if he were contemplating an instantaneous sprint in any direction but the one he was taking.

Silently they followed the path which a few hours before they had so gaily trod, and silently they ascended the hill.

He trod heavily to the bookshelves, took up two or three random volumes, and tossed them heedlessly back into place.

She danced round the church-corner, she could not leave off; the coachman was obliged to run after and catch hold of her, and he lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so that she trod on the old lady dreadfully.

" He went, despite his daughter's utmost efforts to prevent him, and she sat in silent consternation, listening to his heavy tread overhead.

He scarcely treads the ground as he comes near; A glow of youth immortal on his cheek, A form that sorrow, death, will never seek Within these Happy Fields, his eyes with light That Love alone may give, show his delight.

It was now six or eight weeks since the hearse carrying away the remains of the ill-fated Sir Wynston Berkley had driven down the dusky avenue; the autumn was deepening into winter, and as Marston gloomily trod the woods of Gray Forest, the withered leaves whirled drearily along his pathway, and the gusts that swayed the mighty branches above him were rude and ungenial.

Will you look over the parapet on that side?" Veronica trod the soft earth daintily and reached the wall.

He was everywhereon Mike's bed, on his own, on Jellicoe's (drawing a passionate complaint from that noncombatant, on whose face he inadvertently trod), on the floorhe ranged the room, sowing destruction.

Multitudinously we tread toward oblivion, as ants hasten toward sugar, and presently Time cometh with his broom.