1377 examples of trampling in sentences

"Christ, the light of the world, rose from the tomb on Easter morning, like a radiant sun, trampling over darkness and shedding His brightness upon the earth.

Within these wilds your tactics shall avail nothing nor all your trampling chivalryhere must be foresters that may go silent and unseen amid the leaves, 'neath whose trained feet

Soft-creeping they approached the deserted camp, soft-creeping they entered it; and suddenly their trumpets brayed loud and long, and, dying away, gave place to the ring and trampling thunder of the advancing host.

On they came, with nought to let or stay them, their wild hooves trampling down hut of osier and silken tent, spurning the trembling earth and filling the air with flying clods; and wheresoever they galloped there was flame to meet them, so swerved they, screaming their terror and fled round and round within the valley.

So raced they blindly to and fro and back and forth, trampling down, maiming and mangling 'neath reddened, cruel hooves all and every that chanced to lie athwart their wild career: on and ever on they galloped until sobbing, panting, they fell, to be crushed 'neath the thundering hooves behind.

Her visage is usually grim and stern, not always positively forbidding, yet calmly terrible, not merely by its breadth and weight of feature, but because it seems to express so much well-founded self-reliance, such acquaintance with the world, its toils, troubles, and dangers, and such sturdy capacity for trampling down a foe.

To rise to noisy power and influence, and to ill-bred wealth and riches, by trampling others down and profiting by their poverty isas Ruskin long ago told usthe real and prevailing motive of our peoples, whatever their professions of Christianity may be.

That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by.

Riley hurled the Mexicans from their camp after a struggle of a quarter of an hour; and as they rushed down the ravine, their own cavalry rode over them, trampling down more men than the bayonet and ball had laid low.

Force overturning law, trampling on the liberty of the press and of the person, deriding the popular will, in whose name the Government pretends to act.

They surged onward, bawling, crowding, trampling, hooking without mercy.

He called the hounds to order with hoarse oaths and furious crackings of the whip, and as he did so the rest of the field began to arrive, a laughing, trampling crowd of sportsmen who dropped into staring, astounded silence as they reached the scene.

The trampling hoofs came within a yard of her.

Not all their troops of trampling horse, Nor might of mailèd men Not all the rebels of the south Had borne us backwards then!

" "I thoughtI thought" "Go, I say!" There was a noise of trampling horses outside.

The road opened into an unfenced semicircle with corrals on every side and from one of these enclosures a horse neighed, and there was a brief sound of many trampling feet.

When Congress abolished the African slave trade, it abolished SLAVERYsupreme slaverypower frantic with license, trampling a whole hemisphere scathed with its fires, and running down with blood.

" while trampling on the necks of their vassals, and counting the life of a man as of less value than that of a wild beast, never appealed to God for the sincerity of their belief, that all men were created equal.

Were they ambitious of distinction, fleecing, and trampling, and devouring "the flocks," that they themselves might "have the pre-eminence!"

By now they could hear, too, shouts and cries and the trampling rush of many footsteps.

For some time not a sound was heard in the Louvre save the soughing of the wind through the tall trees of the palace-garden, and the measured tread of the sentinels, when suddenly a tumult arose in the great court; the trampling of horses, the voices of men, and the clashing of weapons were blent together; and dashing away his tears, Louis desired his favourite to ascertain the cause of the disturbance.

And I would lift up my feet with their iron heels, and I would go trampling over them, crushing their heads ... so ...

Again the canvas flapped, and the trampling of feet was heard on the lugger's deck; then she came sweeping into the wind, within fifty feet of the yawl.

Last night, after we had been asleep about an hour, (for habit, that "lulls the wet sea-boy on the high and giddy mast," has reconciled us to sleep even here,) we were alarmed by the trampling of feet, and sudden unlocking of our door.

A rope snapped, and there came the sound of quick trampling.

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