They had left the room with its noise and heat behind them and were descending the worn, oaken treads of the spiral stairway of a neighbouring tower.
Mothers redouble their prayers in terror, as fear treadscloser on peril and the likeness of the War God looms larger in sight.
Then none regard them; but w^{th} heedles feet In durt each treads Their declyned heads.
The most heavenly charity treads close upon the march of conflict and blood!
One stands up close, and treads on high, Where th' other dares not send his eye.
A writer is not classic," he says, "because he slavishly treads in the footprints which others have left on the road.
The breast his shoulders, and who once too far Before him wish'd to see, now backward looks, And treads reverse his path.
What wilt thou do with Ráma, him Whose days are short, whose light is dim, Expelled from home and royal sway, Who treads on foot his weary way?
Thousands and thousands annually visit the spot, and round the hill is a raised foot-path, on which the devotee, with naked feet, treads full of pious awe.
After being a slave nine hours, the apprentice is made a freeman for the remainder of the day; early the next morning the halter is again put on, and he treads the wheel another day.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know, That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.
He ne'er drinks But Timon's silvertreads upon his lip; And yet- O, see the monstrousness of man When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!
Such a nature, Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which hetreads on at noon.
The ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet.
The sensations of smell which cheer, inform, and broaden my life are not less pleasant merely because some critic who treads the wide, bright pathway of the eye has not cultivated his olfactive sense.
I put down a tentative foot, much as my kitten treadsfor the first time the primeval forest in the backyard.
Leap from the broken door, Where the brute Comanche entered, And the white-foot treads no more!
At their head is an energetic man named Froment, who has vast projects in view; but as the soil on which he treads is undermined, he cannot prevent the explosion.
As often as he will revisit Gramarye, the patient treads it with a firm, confident step.
Step by step he descended the staircase, trying frantically to remember which of the treadswould creak under his weight.
A woman armed makes war upon herself, Unwomanlike, and treads down use and wont And the sweet common honour that she hath, Love, and the cry of children, and the hand Trothplight and mutual mouth of marriages.
Of the same Fault our Countryman Spencer is still more remarkably guilty, who treads almost perpetually upon enchanted Ground, and the greatest Part of whose Characters are Fairies, Ghosts, Magicians and Giants.
Now puss, while folks are in their beds, treads leads.
At cross-roads in the Bellary district, geometric patterns are sometimes made at night by people suffering from disease, in the belief that the affliction will pass to the person who first treads on the charm.
These are put there at night by people suffering from disease, in the hope that the affliction will pass to the person who first treads on the charm.
As he took the treads that brought him to the next landing the cattleman had an impression of a light being flashed off somewhere.
Notice, also, the peculiarity that Marsh walks heavily on his heels, while Lamson treads more on his toes.
Because you will find that he sometimes treads over Marsh's footsteps, though you will never find Marsh treading in the steps of the other.
In flood and fire and clay and wind, They huddle from man’s pondering mind; Yet he who treads in austere ways May surely meet their ancient gaze.
Brown Dermot treads upon the lawn, And to the armchair goes, And now the old man’s dreams are gone, He smooths the long brown nose.
The thing could obviously move faster on those treads than Mike could on his feet.
His treads whirred, he turned as though on a pivot, whizzed to the door, opened it, and was gone.
The little robot rolled up to the elevator on his treads and was lifted into the body of the ship.
Smash his treadsand his waldoes," Mike had told them, "but only if he attacks.
The soft purr of caterpillar treads against the floor!
He opened the door, plunged through it, and headed off down the corridor as fast as his treads would move him.
If you want to know the name of the man who can make Von Rothsattel as small as the grass in the streets which every one treads upon, inquire for Hirsch Ehrenthal's book-keeper, of the name of Itzig.
But woe to the landed proprietor when the ground he treads has fallen into the power of strangers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
