1842 examples of trot in sentences

Two-legged folk often had to trot pretty briskly to keep up.

The night is mild, and a gentle trot will keep you from taking chills.

I have seen the poor, half-paid type-setters strike for their altars, their sires, and more wages, and I have seen a troop of petticoats, with gal children inside them, trot into the type-setter's place, so that the miserable compositors were compelled to return and starve on four or five dollars a day.

Presently, as he saw the light of the clearing through the trees, he broke into a run,an old man's trot,thus proving conclusively that his worry of lumbago and chilblains had been merely a wrongly diagnosed case of homesickness.

Then he jumped up and went on again at a trot: this pace he kept up very steadily, only pausing from time to time to watch a flock of small white birds that followed him all the morning out of curiosity.

THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA Next day Martin journeyed on in the old way, jumping up and taking a good long run, then dropping into a trot, then a walk, and finally sitting down to rest.

I asked him to show me the famous Bersagliere trot, and by way of illustration we doubled along the road for about half a mile.

They descended the ridge at the trot, unlimbered in front of the sixth parallel, and, coming into action, fired with great effect on the Russian infantry, which offered a broad target.

and don't the dog have to trot, to keep up?

" "A donkey's trot does not last long," says Caterna, "and he will not catch the boat.

Esther is a most lovable, gentle creature, called by those who know and love her, "Dame Durden" or "Dame Trot."

"The lady held on by the driver; and so, Away about town at full trot would they go; Or perhaps to a great country marriage, To Thanksgiving-supperto husking, or ball; Or quilting; for thus did they take nearly all Their rides, on an animal carriage!

But he knew that in the darkness strangers would have no chance whatever of overtaking him, and he slackened his pace into a trot.

They have lost none of their attractiveness, and are most comical and interesting; as curious as ever, they will always come up at a trot when we sing to them, and you may often see a group of explorers on the poop singing 'For she's got bells on her fingers and rings on her toes, elephants to ride upon wherever she goes,' and so on at the top of their voices to an admiring group of Adelie penguins.

Along the course at a brisk trot had come a sweatered figure, with cap pulled low, a man of lined and battered visage, who seemed to trot with a purpose, and yet with a purpose not to be discerned, for none pursued him and he appeared to pursue no one.

Along the course at a brisk trot had come a sweatered figure, with cap pulled low, a man of lined and battered visage, who seemed to trot with a purpose, and yet with a purpose not to be discerned, for none pursued him and he appeared to pursue no one.

" "Oh, we'll see you in the fall all rightwhen you return," commented Rowland easily; but the other made no reply, and without a backward glance started at a rapid jog trot for the tiny settlement on the river two miles away.

The gliding walk became a dog trot, almost a lope; their arms swung back and forth in unison, the pat, pat of their moccasined feet was like the steady drip of eaves from a summer rain, the rustle of their passing bodies against the dense vegetation a soft accompaniment.

At first a mere walk, the pace gradually quickened, became a canter, a trot.

One afternoon he felt sure that he recognized him in a hired carriage whose horse was going at a lively trot through one of the avenues, but when he tried to follow it the vehicle had disappeared into a nearby street.

I ask Abraham Lincoln to answer these questions in order that when I trot him down to lower Egypt I may put the same questions to him." [Sidenote] Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p. 87.

Witch-trot pond.

Witch-trot pond.

Charming Billy yanked his pack-pony awake and into a shuffling trot over the trail, resettled his hat on his head, sagged his shoulders again and went back to crooning his ditty.

he shrieks, 'she's full!' "'I wish no better luck myself,' says I. 'Trot her out!'

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