Tread on

Usage examples of trample.

Every now and then a nervous artilleryman fired a shell from the Yankee lines, and the round would thump into the trampled corn and explode.

Blood spurted from the wounds, bedrabbling the trampled grasses with hot gore.

In this nadir of civilization, this wide- craving for the savage and the stark, this night of spirit, there rose to power the basest and hitherto t despised of human types, the hooligan and the gun-man, who recognized no values but personal dominance, whose vengeful aim was to trample the civilization that spurned them, and to rule for brigandage alone a new gangster society.

Caryll elected to flaunt them half-derisively, that Hortensia might trample them under foot in sheer disgust.

The world is overstocked with persons who sacrifice all their affections, and madly trample and batter down their fellows to obtain riches of which, when they get them, they are unable to make the smallest use, and to which they become the most miserable slaves.

Gordons trampled one last pistolero who had stayed to fight, and began lumbering down the stairs.

Fraisier had put forth all the strength of his rancorous nature, and the audacious portress lay trampled under his feet.

Moreover, he prayed them all to compose their differences and prepare for that awful struggle, lest in the end the Cross of their Master should be trampled under foot of the Saracen, His soldiers slain, His fanes desecrated, and His people slaughtered or driven into the sea-- words of warning that were received in heavy silence.

I seek, and that were I wise, I should trample on it, and take in its stead, that which is worth all the crowns of the east and presidentships of the west.

On sunny afternoons Corinna and Rhian worked in the gardens, replanting herbs and flowers where uncaring boots had trampled the young plants.

He tore away the ropes and the horses, frantic from the noise and smell of blood, stampeded into the sangar, knocking men down and trampling them.

Thanks to her trampling, the water was squeegeeing in and out of his flesh.

Muttering to herself, striding along as though she wanted to trample something, she adjusted and readjusted her shawl half a dozen times.

The people fled in all directions, trampling the fallen, grabbing children and lovers and stumbling on cobbles and broken flagstones.

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.