They who but slowly pacèd are / By plodding on may travel far.
Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune, need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.
One of our neighbors had a finger shot off, and on a bitter, frosty night had to be taken to a surgeon in Portage, in a sled drawn by slow, plodding oxen, to have the shattered stump dressed.
Little flocks and groups of people begin plodding across the square.
At last she saw the scouts riding in front and alongside, and the plodding oxen.
And Neale, plodding on, saw the red face of the great Casey, with its set grin and the black pipe.
No one who met him would have imagined that this plodding laborer was the artist who the week before had won the prize and title of genius.
In Mr. Schwartz's slow, plodding soul the fire of enthusiasm had never burned.
Mid-afternoon found them plodding upward; indeed, almost the whole day had showed them a slight up-grade trail.
Far away on the western slope we could see some Kurdish women plodding along under heavy burdens of pine-branches like those that were now fumigating our eyes and nostrils.
Undine and the Knight looked at Father Heilmann, but he seemed to be plodding on in a waking dream, and not listening to what was said.
The road seemed terribly long to the anxious tradesmen, to the plodding porters, to the poor little man inside the stove, as he kept sinking and rising, sinking and rising, with each of their steps.
They wheeled and cantered towards the long black columns plodding through the meadows.
Half a mile away came the rebel vanguard, a black mass of footmen plodding uphill, their pikes and bills shining in the sun.
Of the four figures plodding toward Bandit, one was an enemy .
They trudged across the plain--five black blobs, five shadows plodding through a midnight pit.
Even patient, plodding labor, without any excitement, was better than doing nothing.
Mollie, one day, when he was industriously striving to overcome his dislike to plodding labor.
We all need the discipline of this tireless plodding to build us up into beautiful character.
We had a short halt for rest and refreshment, taken simultaneously, and presently set out again, with a vague idea of plodding on as far as Orsières.
To think of plodding on through indefinite dreary years toward the miserable conclusion of old age!
You made her think of seeing her dead friends again, and so she was in no mood to speak to us poor mortals who are still ploddingon in this 'vale of tears.
He toils with heavy heart and sinking spirit at the plodding pace of dull mediocrity.
She had explained to Mary all she knew of Monsieur Georges; and, as the shades of evening were closing in, Minnie heard the stealthy step plodding up and down his solitary room.
A team of horses passed from Finglas with toiling plodding tread, dragging through the funereal silence a creaking waggon on which lay a granite block.
Competition, that beautiful science of the present day, by which every plodding cart-horse is converted into a racer, makes this easy enough.
An hour later they were plodding along, sharing the load of provisions.
Hira's grandmother, plodding along, arrived at the dispensary attached to Nagendra's dwelling.
Plodding along in the darkness the Brahmachari heard suddenly in the pathway some such sound, followed by a long sigh.
It was not all plain sailing, for Ursula Bramley and Agnes Maxwell were also good workers; and even Mabel, though not specially bright, was very plodding and conscientious.
She was extremely high-principled and conscientious, a plodding worker, and always anxious to uphold the general tone and credit of the school.
I fancied you going to parties and plodding at your stories.
For many long moments she sat staring into the brush, her brain plodding toward an opening scene, an opening sentence.
