What is "plodding"

Usage examples of "plodding".

Jilamey said to Kelly's back as she strode to intercept the gelding, wearily plodding towards the safety of his stable "No,” Nrrna said, her eyes flashing, "but ze mud on him and ze grasses caught in ze girt will tell us where he has been.

Captain Cruss was plodding across the grid, and the two sleds, one from the cruiser and the other from settlement, each with a single passenger, headed toward the Thek.

It did—until he saw Harold Orley plodding along the path with his guide.

The leading edge of Thread had tipped the marshes, which meant hours of plodding through sticky marsh mud and slimy sand.

He only hoped the burden beasts could be forced out of their usual plodding pace.

However, he was able to move much more quickly without having to hold Kesso to the herd’s plodding progress.

Travelers with horses attached to their wagons moved ahead, throwing dust in his face and disappearing over rises in the road, while his plodding oxen lumbered on, swaying from side to side like ships at sea.

For as long as my eyes could see I watched the sorrowful wagons plodding eastward, taking my son and daughter with them, and when they passed over the final hill and were gone forever I looked about me, and in each direction to the horizon miles away there was nothing, not even a tree or a tall rock, only the road winding to the west, and I felt as if God had deserted me and that I had no friends, no hope, and I think Levi suspected how I felt over the loss of the children, and he was ashamed that he had not sided with me in the argument, and he came to comfort me but I pushed him away, and when night came I felt ashamed, for I remembered how he had given the lost ones his oxen and his money and only because he is such an honorable man, and I went out in the night to find him, but he was wandering somewhere alone, so I came in to write these lines and the gray spots are my tears.

According to the wisdom of the prairie, by this date they should have been crossing the Continental Divide, and here they were plodding along, thirteen days short of Fort John, nineteen to reach the Divide.

They formed a pitiful brigade, plodding along in the dust raised by the thousands who were riding west.

After twenty minutes they saw her, head down, plodding away in response to some ancient impulse.

The horses, plodding along at the rear, had also caught the scent of fresh air, and their pace quickened.

He seemed to hear the ring of Durnik's hammer on the anvil at Faldor's farm, and then the plodding step of the horses and the creak of the wagons in which they had carried turnips to Darine back when this had all begun.

He looked ahead where a vast herd of cattle under the watchful eyes of a band of Algar clansmen was plodding slowly west toward the mountains of Sendaria and the great cattle fair at Muros.

She found fault with the construction of the gangplows that opened whole acres at a time behind patiently plodding herds of oxen.