Walked all over

Usage examples of trampled.

A second messenger, who had been commanded to bring the rebel in chains, was trampled under the feet of an elephant, and manifestos were diligently circulated, exhorting the Persians to assert their freedom against an odious and contemptible tyrant.

His camp, occasionally removed from the banks of the Rhine to those of the Danube, was the seat of his stern despotism, which trampled on every principle of law and justice, and was supported by the avowed power of the sword.

Tiny silver puddles shimmered on the trampled ground, and green vines sprouted there, unfurling new leaves despite the frost-laden air.

The horse snorted and trampled around him, cutting him off at every turn.

Down here in the bright, hot sunlight, she could see how trampled the meadow grass was.

Some unfortunates in the front ranks were peppered by numerous arrows and went down to be trampled by the troops behind.

Mersadion leaped aboard and hurled the man out onto the trampled grass.

But his accusers are those venal writers who adored the fortune of Severus, and trampled on the ashes of an unsuccessful rival.

But when the last enclosure of the Roman constitution was trampled down by Caracalla, the separation of professions gradually succeeded to the distinction of ranks.

The elephants, made furious by their wounds, increased the disorder, and trampled down thousands of the Persian archers.

Such principles and such examples insensibly prepared the triumph of the Roman pontiffs, who have trampled on the necks of kings.

The Roman ambassadors were introduced to the tent of Attila, as he lay encamped at the place where the slow-winding Mincius is lost in the foaming waves of the Lake Benacus, and trampled, with his Scythian cavalry, the farms of Catullus and Virgil.

Every law, either human or divine, was trampled under foot, and as long as the party was successful, its deluded followers appeared careless of private distress or public calamity.

Justinian, who, amidst the delays of a ruinous war, had spared his enemies and trampled on his allies.

Flavian was instantly delivered to the wild beasts of this spiritual amphitheatre: the monks were stimulated by the voice and example of Barsumas to avenge the injuries of Christ: it is said that the patriarch of Alexandria reviled, and buffeted, and kicked, and trampled his brother of Constantinople: it is certain, that the victim, before he could reach the place of his exile, expired on the third day of the wounds and bruises which he had received at Ephesus.