But there were no tracks in the softer soil, no trodden-down grass.

Their ways had parted soon after the nursery, and, though they had met frequently, they had never trodden the same path again.

Trodden between the trees; he had no horse, No strength, and little time before the deed The dreadful deedbe done.

The people were utterly trodden down.

Bishoprics and all benefices were bought and sold; "canons were trodden under foot; ancient traditions were turned out of doors; old customs were laid aside;" boys were made archbishops; ludicrous stories were recited in the churches; the most disgraceful crimes were pardoned for money.

It was good for Nancy too, who would have trodden on Julia so long as she was an irritating but patient, well-behaved worm; but who would have to use a little care if the worm showed signs of turning.

Dimmer in the gathering night; Still beheld, I know not where? Is it but a chalky ridge, Bared by many a trodden mark?

Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments To nobler tastes, and more exalted scents: 60 Even the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Here Spring appears with flowery chaplets bound; Here Summer in her wheaten garland crowned; Here Autumn the rich trodden grapes besmear; And hoary Winter shivers in the rear.

Such was this gallery; and as for the inside of the cave, 'twas a great empty room, with a white floor made up of broken stone-dust trodden hard of old till one would say it was plaster; and dry, without those sweaty damps so often seen in such placessave only in one corner a land-spring dropped from the roof trickling down over spiky rock-icicles, and falling into a little hollow in the floor.

What's kept her from being trodden down by these Wissan Bridge racketers, I'd like to know.

Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.

Let the sober citizens of Connecticut look at the authors of this clamorLet them view such men as Abraham Bishop, and eye the path which they have trodden from their youth, and then ask their own hearts, if they are not under some apprehension, lest if they should enlist under such leaders and fight their cause, they may be found contending against the best interests of society, and "fighting against God.

The road to the left had a trodden appearance; there were wheel tracks on it, and it seemed the correct way to take.

Then there is the indolent need for what is easy which makes us take a trodden path rather than hew out a new one for ourselves.

Naturally this only increased the admiration for these excommunicated defiers of the world, on the part of the down-trodden masses and the small number of independent spirits.

Hence also the battalions of the legions were thrown into disorder, through the impetuosity of the horses, and of the carriages which they dragged through the ranks, many of the soldiers in the van were trodden or bruised to death, while the Gallic line, as soon as they saw their enemy in confusion, pursued the advantage, nor allowed them time to take breath or recover themselves.

They were over the well-trodden fields of Europe, where little ground is left that is not familiar.

Since poor Green, in the earliest generation of dramatists, bought his "groat'sworth of wit with a million of repentance," too many of his brethren had trodden the path which led to hopeless misery or death in a tavern brawl.

Like a cat, I wanted to dream somewhere where I would not be trodden on, somewhere where I would be neglected by friends and foes alike.

Anacreon wishes he were a mirror that he might reflect the image of his beloved; or the gown she wears every day; or the water that laves her limbs; or the balm that anoints her body; or the pearl that adorns her neck; or the cloth that covers her breast; or the shoes that are trodden by her feet.

The only open places were the licks, sometimes as large as corn-fields, where the hoofs of the game had trodden the ground bare of vegetation, and channelled its surface with winding seams and gullies.

But I wait and listen, 5 Till the trodden gravel Tells me, all impatience, It is Phaon's footstep.

Art thou a hyacinth blossom 5 The shepherds upon the hills Have trodden into the ground? Shall not I lift thee?

The Undomestic Daughter thus acquires the conviction that she herself is the most miserably crushed member of a down-trodden sex.