I hear the trampling of some feet.

Miguel gets a frightful trampling.

To hinder me from thy desired sight, But thousand sutors eyes, do watch my steps; And harke, I heare some trampling.

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.

After a while it would grow quite black, and the range and the cattle and the riding over hills and into coulées untamed would all be blotted out; dead and buried deep in the past, and with the careless, plodding feet of the plowman trampling unthinkingly upon the grave.

'Truth cuts deep into the heart,' I said, and this is no doubt the reason why no one likes to hear me express my sentiments, but I did feel it my duty to bear a decided testimony against an institution which I believe altogether contrary to the spirit of the Gospel; for it was a system which nourished the worst passions of the human heart, a system which sanctioned the daily trampling under foot of the feelings of our fellow creatures.

His first intention, in which Bandinelli followed him, was to execute a Hercules trampling upon Cacus, which should stand as pendant to his own David.

" "Nay, my lord," answered Brian, who was some paces behind, "naught save the trampling of our own horses' hoofs.