Pray God for humility and a gentle spirit, these to stay thee from trampling them!
He could distinguish the clanking of iron harness and weapons, the trampling of hoofs; and now--once!
He would have been less alarmed to hear the trampling of a troop.
A chorus of whipcracks is succeeded by the trampling of fourscore mules, mingled with the clanking of wheels against their hubs.
For a time he appeared absorbed in taking up the trail of the shod horses--not so easily done, as it was in places entirely obliterated by the thick trampling of the stallions.
To die beneath the hoofs of trampling steeds-- 10 That is the lot of heroes upon earth!
From the quarters of the strangers, moreover, he heard constantly the ringing of hammers, the neighing and trampling of steeds, and voices of direction.
They numbered one hundred and upward, and were paraded before the Captain's own house to perform their martial exercise, when their attention was arrested by the sound of steeds trampling in the distance.
At that instant, a loud trampling of horses' feet was heard, together with the jingling of spurs and the clanking of armor.
The door being opened, I heard a faint cry of terror from my aunt, and a brawling and tramplingimpossible to describe.
So you can easily understand that when a herd of twenty or thirty of these enormous creatures find their way into a plantation they do terrible damage, eating a good deal, andtrampling down far more than they eat.
Don Quixote smiled, and desired the men to shew him the next image, which appeared to be that of the patron of Spain on horseback, with his sword bloody, trampling down Moors, and treading over heads.
He heard the trampling of the horses beneath: he drew his cloak round him, and descended.
The poor fellow was sickly and wearied out: he had settled into a doze, when he was suddenly wakened by the wheels of a coach and the trampling of horses.
On one side of our pieces of old we see the saint trampling down the dragon.
Shouting tauntingly at their pursuers, they fled--and bellowing, trampling flight swept through every quarter of the house.
Trampling recklessly over the fallen, amid groans and oaths and prayers and sudden shrieks, the enormous crowd vomited itself forth through the numerous passages.
Villon stood and curst; he threw the two whites into the street; he shook his fist at heaven; he stamped, and was not horrified to find himself trampling the poor corpse.
I found another footprint, and another leading towards the middle of the bed; and then I flung the match away, trampling the fire out in the soil.
We had not long to wait, for very soon we heard a rolling of stones and trampling of feet coming down the path, and from the darkness issued a group of men, having Maskew in the middle of them.
The great conception of the mediæval Church, that of the responsibility of kings to a spiritual power, was revived at an hour when kingship was tramplingall responsibility to God or man beneath its feet.
In reducing the Church to mere slavery beneath the royal power he believed himself to be trampling down the last constitutional force which could hold the Monarchy in check.
Prone on his face he fell, and never knew of the trampling he had from the freed pass.
She was depictedtrampling on a grinning knight--evidently the devil in one of his many disguises, though as like Prosper as description could provide.
It was the pietist's own; and as his pupils sang it, they bore before his eyes the holy image of the saint trampling under her feet the hulking thief Prosper.
He has labeled himself, sincerely enough, a Conservative in state affairs, though in his highly successful business he has never hesitated in trampling down conventions.
With a throbbing heart Ellen began, and read, notes and all, till the sound of trampling hoofs and Alice's voice made her break off.
She flung open the door and ran up; and Ellen heard her feet trampling overhead from one end of the house to the other; and sounds too of pushing and pulling things over the floor; it was plain Nancy was rummaging.
In an instant the troop was upon us, and we were surrounded by trampling and rearing horses, and soldiers shouting to us to get out of the way.
In proportion to the bullocks thoroughlytrampling the child to death, so their belief in a successful journey increased.
Other people then come up and fill in the grave, trampling down the surface as much as possible.
Georgia, sir, Georgia, by trampling upon the faith of our national treaties with the Indian tribes, and by subjecting them to her state laws, first set the example of that policy which is now in the process of consummation by this Indian war.
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