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.

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

The snow made me think of a night when my wife was sure there were burglars in the house; and in fact I heard their tramping on the stairs myselfthump, thump, thump, and then a stop, and then down again.

II How different was last night, how full of weariness after heavy tramping through leagues of loose stones.

And although time hung a bit heavily on the good Colonel's hands, now that Clive's interests were separate from his own, yet of nights as he heard Clive's companions tramping by his bedchamber door, where he lay wakeful within, he was happy to think his son was happy.

Shouts and heavy, quick tramping from many directionsthe tempest of murder was drawing people to its center as a cyclone sucks in leaves.

A pretty maid in those days who lived on the main road could put on her riding-habit, go to the window up-stairs, shed a tear, wave her kerchief in the air, and in half an hour have the front lawn full of knights-errant tramping over the peony beds and castor-oil plants.

I remember one night at the remote village of Seraphimo in Archangel Government, how a peasant put both hands on my shoulders and, looking into my eyes, exclaimed, "How like he is to us!" II Tramping across the Crimean moors I lost my way in the mist near the monastery of St. George, and was conducted by a peasant to the Greek village of Kalon, well known to old campaignersit is between Sebastopol and Balaklava.

Then the new act would be tried out at some obscure vaudeville house, and if it didn't go the rehearsals and trampings to agents must begin all over again.

We saw a splendid carriage and four, with a troop of soldiers in red tramping after it, and a passably pretty flag flying over them.

Delightful tramping along a road high over the shore!

Presently he saw a solitary horse tramping among the trees.