From beyond the clump came the steady tramp of a considerable body of men.
He went into the shed: there was a rustling for a few moments: then all was silent, except for the heavytramp of the sentry as he paced slowly up and down.
I slipped away; had to tramp ten days to the rail.
But now the carriage flashed ahead, and I was left to tramp on alone, while the Contessa and the Boy flirted, and Joseph and Innocentina bickered, all alike unmindful of me.
To tell the honest truth, Little Pal, you've become a confirmed habit with me, and I confess that the thought of finishing this tramp without you gave me a distinct shock, when you flung it at my head.
After one night in a hut you then, if the weather is fine, go on the next day for a ten mile tramp over the solid ice.
It was not an enjoyable trampdown the glacier in the driving snow and on ice with a surface of polished glass--indeed it was one of those days that make you wonder whether it is worth while to climb at all.
After the first two miles, this same kind friend insisted on taking my swag as well as his own, and I found that though I invariably began the day's tramp with swag on my back, I was not often allowed to carry it far.
It can be easily imagined that under such circumstances the condition of the men was one of extreme discomfort; in truth, they had to tramp up and down the camp all night long to keep from freezing.
At this moment the tramp of several horses was heard, and immediately the slaves and colonists who stood near the bench on which Broute-Saule lay, and with a greedy gap watched his punishment, fell upon their knees.
You are wise lads; we have a long trampbefore us after we shall have disembarked.
Do we all have to go, Paul, or are you going to let several of us tramp along to Beverly?
You see, it's away from the railroad, and hoboes generally follow the ties when they tramp across country.
You may drive for fifty miles and interview each farmer as you come to him and you won't find five to say that a tramp ever caused them any trouble.
Three years ago, if you had started out for a day's tramp with me along a country road every farmer we met would have had a 'Howdy' for us, and perhaps stopped for a chin.
I tramp as a profession, and I stand at the head of it.
That's the tramp and that's the farmer just as they have been for the last forty years, and that's the reason I bemoan this change in the farmer.
Take such a tramp today and you'll find a tremendous change.
The tramp who entered a house and stole $50 in cash would be worse off than if he hadn't a cent.
You newspaper fellers think you know it all, but you'd take a drop to yourselves if you were on the tramp for a month.
Thus the tramp cuts no figure as a railroad problem, much less menace, abroad.
The gong again, and once more that endless tramp along the hot tiers.
Over against the gray parapet echoed the buzzing of the electric cars, a strange sound to ears accustomed only to the tramp of marching feet, the harsh voices of wardens, and the clang of iron doors.
Occasionally a draught of cold air would flow in, and an officer would tramp down the corridor and remove one of the occupants of the row.
We have heard of his army at Dijon, but his son is recruiting at Orange, so your tramp will be so much the shorter.
Names were called out, and sturdy fathers of families rose from beside their spouses to tramp up to the "assessors" chairs, not without a certain conscious dignity as citizens whose worth was unexpectedly made apparent to all men.
They trampafter him, treading on one another's heels in haste to see the sacks of coin reported by Matteo.
The clatter of the bedward-driven flocks began to tramp past our study door.
Do you remember the day among the reeds after the boat went down and we had to tramp all the way home barefoot?
Our Road does not lead to Rome, at least not very directly, and the tramp who chooses it is sure to be a mild and unenterprising creature, a desultory tramp who does not really know his business.
But the balancing of the can requires a happy combination of stones about the fire that the brief nooning of a day's tramp seldom affords, and baking is still more uncertain.
If you come any closer somebody will git hurt," called back the tramp roughly.
The tramp looked at the acrobatic youth and he gave a little gasp.
Seeing it would be useless to conceal matters longer, thetramp called Flatnose made a full confession, in which he told of attacking Andy just as had been supposed.
Very reluctantly the tramp crawled out from under the bushes and faced the boys.
You come with us," said Andy, and between them the cadets marched the tramp back to the camp in the hollow.
I--I ain't got the stuff," cried the tramp in alarm.
This was a trick the tramp had in mind, and reaching the edge of the cliff, he darted to the right and crouched down under some thick bushes.
But, as they want salt very much, the big animals tramp along the two miles of fence toward the salty place, and, knowing the elephants will do this, the hunters are ready for them.
I am trying to listen to hear the tramp of the herd of elephants," the snake answered.
The pageant was not yet entirely over, for fresh battalions of soldiers still marched past at rapid pace, tuning their steady tramp to the cadence of their songs of triumph.
During one of these intervals, we were startled by the sound of hoof-strokes at some distance off: it was the tramp of horses upon the hard plain.
Two hours had been allowed them to perform their errand; but long before the expiration of that period, we heard the double tramp of their horses as they came galloping across the plain.
At midnight of the eleventh day a sudden tramp was heard on deck, and immediately Sontag, Ohlsen, and Petersen entered the cabin.
Weary they tramp for their Country, Marching when only half fed; He'll rest where he can when they're halted, Without sheet or blanket or bed.
The following evening he would pack his haversack with food and tramp the four miles to the great Foret Verte--delicious name!
During the night Irene had been awakened by the rumble of wheels and the tramp of hoofs, and, looking from her bedroom window down the broad road, saw long lines of dark, silent figures marching in the direction of Snagtown.
As Mrs. Juniper sat in her room that evening, the tramp of hoofs came to her ears.
He chose the latter, and was in the act of starting on his journey, when the tramp of hoofs coming down the lane struck his ear, and he again crouched down under the shelter.
The old man and old woman took to their heels, and the next moment was heard the sound of many voices and the tramp of many feet.
Nellie listened, too, and at a distance heard the tramp of several men.
Again they set off on their weary tramp northward, and thus nearly two miles were covered.
It was nearly four o'clock when I reached Salisbury and started on my five miles' tramp to the village.
Whatever it was it weighed upon their spirits, and a long trampup the beach, in forlorn hope of meeting Mistress Seal again, did not succeed in raising them.
Physically, however, their long tramp did them good, and they returned home with famous appetites.
Alone, miles from any other house, she met a tramp in an outhouse as calmly as though he had been a fly in the butter.
The tramp turns away with a curse or a groan, according to his nature, and goes on his way cursing or groaning, or, if the pinch be fierce, he tries the back door or the unguarded window.
Perhaps--surely she would have the good taste to retire while the tramp washed, so that he could take his coat off?
There was scarcely a battered tramp on the Seven Seas that was not his on time charter.
Then, we tramp steamers always give them the right of way in harbor--hello!
Crash after crash showed how the good ship was yielding to the tempest's fury; and the wild trampof excited feet outside, and above, made the huddled women shudder in face of the desperate fear that a fire upon the sea always awakens.
I think it must have been half nightmare, or perhaps too much frozen pudding at dinner, after the long warm tramp up Gibraltar's steep sides; at any rate it all happened just as I tell you.
The tramp of a horse's feet now assured me as to the nature of at least part of the spectacle, when click went the trigger behind me, and the trooper's ball rushed whistling through the brushwood.
The tramp of horses' feet and the sound of voices beneath my window roused me from a deep sleep.
I had scarcely gone a hundred yards from my quarters when a great tramp of horses' feet attracted my attention.
The mounds of fresh earth on every side told of the soldier's sepulchre; and the unceasing tramp of the pioneers struck sadly upon the ear, as the groans of the wounded blended with the funeral sounds around them.
My patience was fast ebbing, Power had been absent above an hour, and no appearance of him could I detect, when suddenly the tramp of a horse came rapidly up the hill.
Not a sound was heard save the tramp of a patrol or the short, quick cry of the sentry.
In a few moments the band of a regiment was heard, and very shortly after the regular tramp of troops followed, as the Eighty-seventh marched into the Plaza, and formed a line.
The heavy tramp of a foot overhead denoted the step of some one taking his short walk of exercise; while the rough voice of the skipper, as he gave the word to "Go about!
