cf. Prologue, Dryden's Marriage à la Mode (1672): Poor pensive punk now peeps ere plays begin, Sees the bare bench, and dares not venture in; But manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot, for air.

He trudges if he walks toilsomely and wearily, as though his feet were heavy.

To look on the landscapes we have always known, to tread in the footsteps of our fathers, to follow the Legions down the long roads, to trudge by the same paths to the same goal as the pilgrims, to consider the silence of the old, old battlefields, to pray in forgotten holy places to almost forgotten deities, is to be made partakers of a life larger and more wonderful than that of the individual, is to be made one with England.

If we may use the metaphor of Horace, we should say, that Mr. Atkinson alternately trudges along on foot, and rises on the wings of verse into the upper air.

His poetic creed may be summed up in one of his own stanzas: Give me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then, though I trudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart.

Though we trudge hence with nothing but the rags on our backs, we shall be no worse off to-morrow than we were this morning.

So we with very dismal forebodings trudge on, having no other course to take, Don Sanchez, to make the best of it, warranting that no harm shall come to us while we are under the hospitable protection of a Spaniard, but to no great effectour faith being already shaken in his valuation of Spaniards.

At last they finished their suppers and their pipes, and then lay down to sleep under the trees till morning, when they arose in a particularly silent and sulky mood, rolled up their blankets, strapped their things on their shoulders, and began to trudge slowly back to the camp on foot.

He trudges on; bird and beast are silent all about him; now and again he utters a word or two; speaking to himself.

Here and there, where the moors give place to a kindlier spot, an open space in the midst of the forest, he lays down the sack and goes exploring; after a while he returns, heaves the sack to his shoulder again, and trudges on.

The frost is getting harder now, and it is good, firm going, but Isak trudges heavily for all that.

In short, why should Speculation and Scheming ride so jauntily in their carriages, splashing honest Work as it trudges humbly and wearily by on foot?" Such, as I interpret it, is the problem which occupies and puzzles the knotted brain of Toil in our day.

And then, quietly, and as if he were indeed just home from some short trip, he shifts his pack, so that it lies comfortably across his back, and trudges off.

Try then to do what I write you, and make Gismondo come back to live in Florence, so that I may not endure the shame of hearing it said here that I have a brother at Settignano who trudges after oxen.

* THE MEADOW ROAD Just a simple little picture of a sunny country road Leading down beside the ocean's pebbly shore, Where a pair of patient oxen slowly drag their heavy load, And a barefoot urchin trudges on before:

Load him down from heel to crown with tools and grub and kit, He's always there where the fighting ishe's there unless he's hit; Over the mud and the blasted earth he goes where the living can; He's in at the death while he yet has breath, the British infantryman! Trudge and slip on the shell-hole's lip, and fall in the clinging mire Steady in front, go steady!

On such occasions Oates trudges manfully after him, rounds him up to within a few hundred yards of the stable and approaches cautiously; the animal looks at him for a minute or two and canters off over the floe again.

Hodge goes in to the market in charge of his master's sheep, his wife trudges in for household necessaries.

Instead of waiting for the chance of the hiring fair, he trudges into the market town and calls at the office of the oldest established local paper.

To this day, when the family moves, the husband rides on the camel while the wife trudges along on foot, loaded down with kitchen utensils, bedding, and her child on top.

Oh, those trudges through the lanes and alleys round Bethnal Green Junction late at night, when our day's work was over; children lying about on shavings, rags, anything; famine looking out of baby faces, out of women's eyes, out of the tremulous hands of men.

If there is a horse or pony in the list of family possessions, the man rides, the squaw trudges after.

I have a king who does not speak; So, wondering, thro' the hours meek I trudge the day away, Half glad when it is night and sleep, If, haply, thro' a dream to peep In parlors shut by day.

Occasionally a body of troops, moving in small detachments at generous intervals, trudges by, on its way to or from the trenches.

Down from the highest mountain-top of Pizzorna, overlooking Florence and its vine-garlanded campagna, comes the hermit, brown-draped, in hood and mantle; staff in hand, he trudges along the dusty road.