Trotting

Examples

• Beaufort has always kept a racing stable, and he had better breed trotting horses. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She had been trotting along, so preoccupied and busy that she had not recognised them until they turned upon her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Before Mrs. O'Dowd's speech was concluded, the young Ensign was trotting downstairs on his commission. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As the officer came trotting now on the trail of the horses of the band he would pass twenty yards below where Robert Jordan lay. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Views of an ox trotting, a wild bull on the charge, greyhounds and deer running and birds flying in mid-air were shown, also athletes in various positions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Murdstone and I were soon off, and trotting along on the green turf by the side of the road. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mais au moins il n'est pas besoin de les surveiller, she added, getting up and trotting away like the compact little pony she was. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At ten I was on horseback (I hired a gallant grey, for the occasion), with the bouquet in my hat, to keep it fresh, trotting down to Norwood. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Even sportsmen were glad to seize upon them, and wheels of sulkies, provided with the pneumatic tires, have enabled them to lower the record of trotting horses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Will you take me out in the trotting wagon with Puck? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And seven o'clock in the evening finds him trotting out into Duke Street, to trot to the corner and save a sixpence in coach-hire. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In this order they reached the magistrate's house; the chairmen trotting, the prisoners following, Mr. Pickwick oratorising, and the crowd shouting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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