Then Gefroi the wrestler turned and plodded on his way, walking slow and with drooping head as one who knoweth not whither he goes, or careth.

Some of the corridors were muddy, and in plodding along these we seemed to be in the streets of some prairie village in spring-time.

Yet not unrecompensed the man shall roam, Who at the call of summer quits his home, 10 And plods through some wide realm o'er vale and height, Though seeking only holiday delight; At least, not owning to himself an aim To which the sage would give a prouder name.

"At Michaelmas next my cov'nant comes out When every man gathers his fee; Then I'll take my blue blade all in my hand, And plod to the greenwood with thee.

Yet she was sensibly aware that this windfall meant a short cut to things which she had only looked to attain by plodding over economic hills.

In the spinning room at the Victory Mill, with its tall frames and endlessly turning bobbins, where the languid thread ran from hank to spool and the tired little feet must walk the narrow aisles between the jennies, watching if perchance a filament had broken, a knot caught, or other mischance occurred, and right it, Deanie plodded for what seemed to her many years.

she inquired in an awestruck whisper, as she fell into step submissively, plodding with bent head at his shoulder.

"'Father and mother and the ancestors before them have done much to bequeath those mental qualities to us, but that which scrubs them into us, the clinch which makes them actually ours and keeps them ours, and adds to them as the years go by,that depends on our own plod in the rut, our drill of habit, in a word our 'drudgery.'

The cloud seems to part before one, and through the rift you discern your earthly track far away, and a jaded pilgrim plodding along it with weary step; and though the pilgrim does not look like you, yet you know the pilgrim is yourself.

Now as he yet lay beside the brook hearkening to its pretty babel, he was aware of another sound drawing nearerthe slow plodding of a horse's hoofs upon the road below; and glancing whence it came he beheld a solitary knight whose mail gleamed 'neath a rich surcoat and whose shield flamed red with sunset.

I have seen her spend a whole day picking handfuls of grass in the orchard and running with them to the donkey or the horse standing patiently in the neighbour's paddock, and when she hasn't animals to play with she will put a horseshoe on each hand and each foot, and then you will hear from above the plod-plod-plod of a horse going its daily round.

With his hands behind his back, and his eyes upon the ground, he would plod across the field, perfectly unconscious that any one was following him.

An old story now, these days of silent plodding through the driving snow.

This was the thought that took him into the unknown; that inspired him with unflagging courage and zeal throughout twenty years of weary plodding in the African wilderness among hundreds of tribes who never before had seen a white man.

Evening grew to night as I plodded past these woods or struggled through them.

"I have an exercise healthful and good, For tuning the nerves and digesting the food Graceful gymnastics for stirring the blood Without the gross purpose of use Ant, let me tell you 'tis not a la mode To plod like a pilgrim, and carry a load, Perverting the limbs that for grace were bestowed, By such a plebeian abuse!

"Seems to me you made an uncommon racket about it," grumbled her mother, plodding into the kitchen in her slippers.

It was Alcatraz plodding towards the line of starters, his languid hoofs rousing a wisp of dust at every step.

"We are two," said Abbe Bacha to Mahomet, as they were plodding from Mecca to Medina.

He was concerned with the romance of the thought, with alliteration, and the singular charm of the truthsunset and the end of the day, the hunter's plod down the hill to the cottage, to the home where wife and children awaited him.

Tawnleytown was dull plodding for hot youth.

And should there be some notes That thou couldst teach me, as I plod alongside with my goats, I'll give thee for thy schooling this ewe, that horns hath none: Day after day she'll fill the can, until the milk o'errun.

The four big horses plodded at a gait that made Kurt step out to keep up with them.

We should cease our plodding over earth, and should rest on the sea in the sun.

The oxen plodded out of the stockade and swung to the left.