Therefore we plodded on, and instead of overtaking Uncle Daniel, as Ben Cushing had predicted we should, before noon, we saw nothing of him until night came.
It is true that we were forced to work quite as hard in navigating the boat as when we plodded over the miry road, and yet there was this advantage, we were able to eat our meals at regular times.
For six years she hadplodded Lake Michigan, always with the biggest possible paying load and always working at top speed.
The Holter, that workhorse of the water, ploddedstolidly on its appointed way.
We set out again and plodded along in the deluge until late in the afternoon.
Pointing to a small grey pony that plodded unladen in advance of the pack-mules, he told her that this little mare was the “madrina” or adopted mother of the troop.
Wildly and desperately it began to work its way along the bottom of the ravine, with head lifted and ears pricked, listening for the tinkle of the bell, as the bell-mare plodded onward, unconcerned.
These guests were always of the same class, rough simple fellows, generally colonials, with whom Dyke had sailed the seas or plodded the earth at some time or other in the past.
The sun went down as we plodded on, the light faded from the west, and still we saw no Jacob's Pools.
Slowly, cautiously the animal plodded over broken, rocky ground succeeded by smoother footing, as I could tell by the motion, and in about an hour suddenly and quietly halted.
I got my stuff the other side of the wires, and, shouldering a sack, plodded away due west.
They were white with the powdery dust, as were their yokes, the wagons, and the men who plodded doggedly alongside.
In long lines they plodded to the watering places; and in long, patient lines they plodded their way back again, until deep and indelible troughs had been worn in the face of the earth.
But after a time, a Mexican porter, with a lantern, seeking every nook and corner, plodded stealthily around a corner of the McCormick.
Here and there were heavy drifts, and now and then an unexpected ditch in the path gave Carol a tumble into the snow, but, laughing and breathless, she was pulled out again and they plodded heavily on.
We looked back over our shoulders several times as we plodded along down the muddy road and into the corduroy path which ran through the wood.
However, pretending that I placed their honesty beyond all doubt, I plodded on; but round a corner, found the outlook so unfamiliar that I determined to ask again.
We plodded off back to the village and groped around the ruins for something solid and high enough to carry the gun.
As I plodded along the muddy road in the pouring rain, I became aware of a sound with which I was afterwards to become horribly familiar.
Robby brightened up as he plodded along toward the end of the great pasture.
He met him often driving the wood sleds from the forest, where the men were chopping and as James plodded beside the slow oxen, he read or studied, anxious to use every minute.
Knapsack on shoulder, then, and staff in hand, I plodded onward, and although frequently coming up with others on their way homeward, I avoided all companionship with those whom I could no longer think of as comrades.
However, he plodded on doggedly, an incarnation of vengeance and hate.
Half-crazed with suffering themselves, his partnersplodded on unheedingly.
He did not like the going here, but he plodded on with his burdens.
Then they plodded onward in the rugged and bewildering depths of Tieck's tale until five o'clock, when, with one accord, they went out to split wood.
As the man plodded down the river, his thoughts were all of the girl.
Down we plunged above our knees through the yielding surface, and staggered and fell with failing strength; then rose once more and plodded on, until at last we sank exhausted upon the top of Ararat.
Toward this we plodded through the growing darkness and rapidly cooling atmosphere; for in its extremes of temperature the Gobi is at once both Siberian and Indian, and that, too, within the short period of a few hours.
Still we plodded on for two more weary hours, cutting our steps in the icy cliffs, or sinking to our thighs in the treacherous snow-beds.
So she plodded wearily on at the heels of her lord, content to wait for that which she knew, somewhere, somehow, must happen.
At his back plodded eight men, two of them French-Canadian voyageurs, and the remainder strapping Crees from Manitoba-way.
It looked round for a moment, and then plodded forward steadily while the desiccated apples ran down on the trail.
A cold wind blew the rain in their faces, the horses stumbled in the holes, and the wet men grumbled as they plodded through the mud.
At last, tired with watching the boys fell asleep, a circumstance that is not strange perhaps when you consider they had plodded fifteen miles that day and had carried heavy loads.
By dark we had made a beginning of our hard week's task, and in the gathering dusk plodded across the lake to the old lumber-camp, expecting to find Aunt Olive smiling and supper ready.
But he plodded through it, heading southwest, so as to strike the track again, a little farther on.
They must move to keep from freezing, and though the snow began again, they plodded on, with heads lowered to meet the blast that drove the stinging flakes into their faces.
Two of them plodded at the stumbling horses' heads, four pushed the sled, and at the top of every steeper slope every one stopped and gasped for breath.
Yet he was not without tenderness, and as he ploddedon over the frozen snow, he thought of the lost outcast with wistful regret.
The plan was duly put into execution, and one bitter night Kermode and several others plodded up a frozen creek.
His course was marked, however, by a pile of stones here, a blazed tree there, and he plodded on all day.
The powerful Clydesdale horses plodded through short crackling scrub; a fine scent of wild peppermint floated about.
Kit ploddedalong the trail with his Indian packers.
The bachelors had changed the direction of their scout, and while Shorty and McCan plodded up the stream with their dogs, Smoke and the bachelors were sixty miles to the northeast picking up the trail of the second caribou herd.
The Indians plodded under their loads, but it was a quicker gait than he had practised.
At other times, resting, he watched and envied the stolid, mule-footed Indians that plodded by under heavier packs.
The prisoners plodded dejectedly up the track until they reached the calaboose, into which the others drove them.
Then, she shook the reins, and as the horses ploddedup the slope Miss Schuyler fancied that she sighed.
They went back into the trail once more, and the icy gusts struck through them as they plodded up it; but they found no man keeping watch beside it, as there should have been.
In another minute they were in among the trees, and Hetty, springing down, ploddedthrough the loose snow at the horses' heads, urging them with hand and voice up the incline which wound tortuously into the darkness.
They went on a trifle faster without another word, and presently, with crackle of dry twigs beneath them, plodded into the bush.
Grant said nothing as he took his place on the driving-seat, and the team had plodded slowly along the trail for at least five minutes before he spoke.
So he drooped his head under the other's taunt and plodded on to the spring.
For a moment Miles stood gazing blankly after him; then he turned and, kicking up the sand in half-hearted little spurts, plodded on up the hill to Master Brewster's gate.
We could soon hear the battle of Williamsburg progressing in front as we, wet to the skin, plodded on our miserable way.
We had to lie on the ground in the rain that night to cover the retreat of Weitzel's men, who wearily plodded back through the rain, mud and darkness, not reaching a safe position in our rear until early morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plodded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
