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.

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.

[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.

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

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.