Trodden

Examples

• His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He slipped off his worn down-trodden shoes, and cast himself heavily, all wet as he was, upon the bed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was no trodden way. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am not quite trodden down. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Upon that, I turned down the long passage which I had first trodden in my thick boots, and he made his bell sound. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The grass was long; but it was trodden down nowhere, save where their own feet had crushed it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And if I stopped by the way an instant, while others are rushing on, I should be trodden down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But at that moment he dared not tell a lie, and he felt suddenly uncertain of his ground which he had trodden with some confidence before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Shirley had trodden the plank successfully and fearlessly many a time before; Caroline had never yet dared to risk the transit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I hardly know which is myself and which the butcher, we are always in such a tangle and tussle, knocking about upon the trodden grass. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was like yesterday since my feet had last trodden the fragrant heathy ground. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No, it was all trodden into mire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I forgive the pain I endure; but the trodden path cannot be retraced. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Other mules had arrived not long before, some with peasant riders and some with goods, and had trodden the snow about the door into a pool of mud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was trodden upon and fallen over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The dark road I have trodden for so many years will end where it will. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I could not find anything in the nature of a distinct impression, but the grass was trodden down, and someone had undoubtedly passed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden under foot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• My dear fellow, said Mr. Toller, striking in pacifically, and looking at Mr. Wrench, the physicians have their toes trodden on more than we have. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi' clemming to know when they're put upon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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