Outside of the thronged streets; away from piled up bricks and mortar; outside of the clank of machinery; the rumbling of carriages; the roar of the escape pipe; the scream of the steam whistle; the tramp, tramp of moving thousands on the stone sidewalks; away from the heated atmosphere of the city, loaded with the smoke and dust, and gasses of furnaces, and the ten thousand manufactories of villainous smells.

That the Palace is some distance away I am aware, but how far I do not know, or in which direction, and while I am parleying and gesticulating in a mixture of French, English, and a few words of Dutch, the only conveyance obtainable takes itself off, and I am left to tramp through the woods with a jargon of Dutch directions ringing in my ears, and a very faint idea of longitude or latitude in my mind.

There is no sound; but from the open window, looking upon the carriage-road, there is the tramping of horses, drowning all sounds in the room.

W. had one or two shooting breakfasts and the long tramps in the woods rested him.

"Can't we drive over to Thompson's this morning, Uncle?" "Beth and Patsy have planned a tramp to the lake, and a row after water-lilies.

I was out on a gunnin' tramp with Joe Partridge, a cousin of mine,poor old chap!

The crowd of players were tramping across the paved playground, and surging through the archway into the quadrangle, when Jack Vance and Mugford were suddenly confronted by Diggory.

But hunger made me bold, and I tramped over the mown grass of the yard, which in the dusk I could see to be set with flower-beds, till I stood before the door of as fine a mansion as I had found in the dominion.

When they had piled the rescued provisions up on the bank, and just as they were covering the heap of bacon, flour, and bean-bags, boxes, tools, and utensils with a tarpaulin, up went a shout, and the two missing men appeared tramping along the ice-encrusted shore.

First of all, he went into a cotton factory, and later to a velveteen factory; then, having a taste for carpentering, he took to it as a trade, though he was at best but a rough unskilled workman, tramping about the country, and doing odd jobs wherever he could get them.

I retired when the rumble of the carriages in the streets, and the tramp on the stone sidewalks had ceased, and the scream of the eleven o'clock train had died away into silence, with a quiet conscience, and in the confidence that I should find that repose to which one who has wronged no man during the day, is justly entitled.

In this spirit of aroused hope, I continued to stare out into the black night, watchfully, the shrouded deck behind me silent, and seemingly deserted, except for the steady tramp from rail to rail of LeVere, keeping his lonely watch aft.

His body was discovered in the heart of the new catacomb, and it was evident from the condition of his feet and boots that he had tramped for days through the tortuous corridors which make these subterranean tombs so dangerous to explorers.

She heard the horses tramp into the barns and the loud voices of drivers.

The snow lay heavy in the woods, wet and heavy with the breath of coming spring, as I tramped out of them one March morning, and found myself on the queen's highway, within short rifle-shot of the rushing Montmorency, whose roar had reached us through the forest an hour or two before.

By, no tramp like that is going to marry my sister without I know more about him!"

That's what that queer tramp at the Junction House asked for," remarked Beth.

Finally Jerry impatiently broke away and tramped toward the house.

" How many dismounted Jack couldn't make out, but presently there was a heavy tramping in the cabin and then a ferocious oath.

As late as it was, Bob, Ned and the captain took a tramp around the island.

"If I'd been in love with such a peerless creature, I shouldn't have left her to go tramping after cattle in Australia.

But even you and I, however much we may love the woods, however we may enjoy these occasional tramps among their shady solitudes, would not enjoy them as a residence; and yet I have sometimes thought I should love to spend the summers in a forest home, alone with nature, with my pen and books, a fishing-rod and rifle to supply my wants, and a friend to talk with occasionally.

Presently, across his mingled sensations came a measured tramp as of boy-soldiers marching in line.

There were two foreigners who slept at a common lodging-house two nights ago and went on tramp towards Glasgow.

But neither Stee nor I can face three miles' tramp without something to protect us.