What is "trudge"

Usage examples of "trudge".

We came presently, after having agreed on this notable expedient, to one of those hedge-accommodations for foot passengers, at the door do which stood an old crazy beldam, who seeing us trudge by, invited us to lodge there.

Peterson trudged out of the tunnel with as much spring in his step as a starving man with beriberi could have.

They trudged across the boggy surface and arrived at the door to find a note hanging like a flapping tongue from the letter-box.

The bureaucrat trudged down the river road, passing his briefcase from hand to hand as its weight made his palms and fingers ache.

He disdained even standard versification--he wrote with unusual scansions, strange metrics--the harmonies of octameter catalectic, being more rarified, seemed to rise to the lofty ear of God more than could humble iambic pentameter, that endless trudge, trudge, trudge across the surface of the terrestrial globe.

After a few more minutes of unsuccessfully trying not to think of what lay in store for a celibate nun in a meat show, I trudged over to the Man of Many Colors, who was lying very still on one of the cots, while the Human Lizard and the India Rubber Man took turns rubbing his wrists vigorously and mopping sweat from his forehead.

The horse distemper had completely disabled public modes of transportation citywide, so the two poets were forced to trudge on foot.

We deboarded at Earthport Station, trudged down the endless service corridor to our transfer shuttle.

They rose, they sat, they bowed, they crossed themselves with sure, deft strokes, Dinny trying to keep pace with them in the rising, and sitting, and kneeling, feeling himself a mere stumbling baby trudging with short, drunken steps in the wake of experienced track-sprinters.

He chuckled at his own jest, then rose to trudge over to where she sat, Dob trailing after like a loyal hound.

I trudged out into a hooing of damp and grisly wind, into the kind of gunmetal day when you wear your headlights turned on, and think of a roaring fire, hot buttered rum, a Dynel tigerskin, and a brown agile lass from Papeete.

Stoke had said to him as they trudged through knee-deep snow from the Zum Wilden Hund out to the black chopper on the pad.

And the list does go on, like a chant of curses, through the morose mind of the desert journeyer, as he endlessly trudges from one featureless horizon across a featureless flat surface toward the featureless skyline ever receding ahead of him.

Compared to the sublime art of kithing ideoplasts, it was like trudging along on snowshoes across the frozen sea when one might sail a hundred miles per hour in an ice schooner.

Through the strange, lightened darkness and snow we trudged, toward a set of tents which had not stood about the clearing earlier.