"Trode" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to his brother Grim, and they held one another by the hand and trode the fire; but when they came to the middle of the hall Grim fell ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous
... most affably. I wish you'd seen him—balancing his figure with a consciousness of maids at the kitchen window, his cane held out, toeing and heeling your roses into their places!! He assured me he understood all about it, and he trode them in very nicely! ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... with slow steps, but he found no comfort, turn where he would; the sweet songs of the grove jarred upon his ear; the beauty of the blue sky pained his sight; and the soft green earth, as he trode upon it, seemed harsh to his foot, and sent a pang through every nerve. "Oh, where is my cousin?" he kept ...
— The Indian Fairy Book - From the Original Legends • Cornelius Mathews
... all shelter, through darkness I trode, Till I came to a ruin'd old house by the road; Here the night I will spend, and, inspired by the owl, My wrath I 'll vent ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... straight and proper each time that it did come about; for lo! I did kick against an upjutting rock here, and fall upon a great and unseen boulder there, and so was shaken very quickly to a sound knowledge that I trode the hard and actual earth; and had no true ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson |
