And now, above the shouts and the trampling of hoofs upon the road, came the clash of steel on steel and the harsh roar of Walkyn and Black Roger as they plied axe and sword "Arise!

It is the panic and rush that circus men are afraid ofthe pushing and "milling" of the crowd and the trampling under foot of helpless women and children.

Four male figures roughly hewn, which are now wrought into the rock-work of a grotto in the Boboli Gardens, together with the young athlete trampling on a prostrate old man (called the Victory) and the Adonis of the Museo Nazionale at Florence, have all been ascribed to the sepulchre of Julius in one or other of its stages.

He could hear the trampling behind him, he could catch the words of triumph that seemed to be shouted almost in his very ear.

'I thought we should have a fall there ere long,' Ratsey went on, 'what with this drought parching the ground, and the trampling at the edge when we move out the side stone to get in, but there is no mischief done beyond what can be easily made good.

Here had been a great trampling out of the grapes of wrath, and most sorrowful was the vintage that remained.

I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the hole with a loud voice, in the English tongue, if there be anybody below, let them speak.

It meant the rending in pieces of that which was holy, the trampling into the earth of that sacred gift which had only now been bestowed upon him.