Trampled

Examples

• Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
• As it was, the poor devil was really trampled to death during the retreat of the enemy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I passed along the tradesmen's path, but found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I should beg and pray to--to have the person taken away and trampled upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You fill me with interest, I perceive that the ground has been trampled up a good deal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have not been trampled on. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Do _you_ want to be trampled upon and stoned? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was true, and he trampled upon me and deserted me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It may be that it couldn't be trampled upon if it wasn't there. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My own happiness has been trampled under foot; my own love has been torn from me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The flowers were trampled down, and the soft soil was imprinted all over with footmarks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He trampled over all the young bucks of his father's circle, and was the hero among those third-rate men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is agony to her often to have these ideas trampled on and repressed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I glanced about me, and saw that the hay and straw were trampled over the floor, as if there had been a struggle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A servant did it, and Jehu's horse trampled her under foot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Dismounted warriors were trampled underfoot in the stampede which followed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As to my own will or conscience, impassioned grief had trampled one and stifled the other. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Do you want me to be trampled upon and stoned? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When I reached the church, the trampled condition of the burial-ground was the only serious trace left to tell of the fire and the death. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To Holmes, as I could see by his eager face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read upon the trampled grass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then stretching himself upon his face and leaning his chin upon his hands, he made a careful study of the trampled mud in front of him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But it was not I who was to be taken away and trampled upon, I hope? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I'm not to be trampled under-foot by a dustman any more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not, I believe, unless the time has arrived when, as an invalid, I am to be trampled upon by my relations. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

Typist: Nigel