It's like working a tread-mill, and it rattles and bangs about until you think every minute it must all be coming to pieces.

It is so deep no man can draw the buckets on a winch, but they must have an ass inside a tread-wheel to hoist them up.

HESPERUS Down in the street the last late hansoms go Still westward, but with backward eyes of red The harlot shuffles to her lonely bed; The tall policeman pauses but to throw A flash into the empty portico; Then he too passes, and his lonely tread Links all the long-drawn gas-lights on a thread And ties them to one planet swinging low.

The armed hosts whose tread resounds through thy Continent are marching Southward to teach this simple lesson in geography.

[Variant 94: When fragrant scents beneath th' enchanted tread Spring up, his choicest wealth around him spread, Inserted in the editions 1815 to 1832.]

Even while I was wondering if my exhausted strength would sustain me through this undertaking, I heard a heavy tread stop at my door.

"Mother and Maid, in nothing incomplete, This night that gathers is more light and fleet Than twilight trod alway with stumbling feet, Agentes semper uno animo.

Once trod ambition's giddy height: Tho' headlong from the dang'rous steep Its pageants roll'd with wasteful sweep, Her tablet still records the deeds of fame And wakes the patriot's, and the hero's flame.

And all agree that evening, at the Mariners' Rest, that his lordship is as nice a young gentleman as ever trod deal board, and deserves such a yacht as he's got, and long may he sail her!

Yes, I've trod thy halls, Scorned and derided midst their ribald crew, A licensed jester, save the cap and bells, I have borne thisand I have borne the death, The unavenged death, of a dear brother.

Lenore carried that letter in her bosom when she went out to walk in the fields, to go over the old ground she and Kurt had trod hand in hand.

The clear and written law, the deep trod foot-marks Of ancient custom, are all necessary To keep him in the road of faith and duty.

If they speak of a lawyer, he is always a profound student of the law; of a soldier, he is the bravest tenderest knight that ever trod shoe leather; of a lady, she is the most beautiful that ever graced a drawing-room.

Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on.

"If you stop to be civil and 'hope I don't hurt ye,' you will be trod underfoot.

Défago advanced, his tread faltering and uncertain; he made his way straight up to them as a group first, then turned sharply and peered close into the face of Simpson.

And so he declared I was the neatest little trimmer that ever trod water, and he believed he should know a Ruggles by the cut of her jib, (I wonder if he'd have known Aunt Mimy,)

Around his couch he roll'd, Till midnight hatch'd resolve "Unto the shrine!" Stealthily on, the involuntary tread Bears himhe gains the boundary, scales the wall, And midway in the inmost, holiest dome, Strides with adventurous step the daring man.