"Trudge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Rubens's," as Lady Kicklebury says; we trudge from cathedral to picture-gallery, from church to church. We see the calm old city, with its towers and gables, the bourse, and the vast town-hall; and I have the honor to give Lady Kicklebury my arm during these peregrinations, ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... cottage nor farm within hail, and unless they could strike the road they might wander on hour after hour over the moors, only getting farther and farther out of their way. Tired out with the rough trudge, the girls at last declared they must sit still for a few minutes ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil
... Scott's narrative poems, which he was at that time reading aloud to us, "There is of Bebbington the holy peak!" To which I would as constantly rejoin, "'Of Bebbington the holy spire,' father!"—being offended by his use of a word so unmusical as peak. He would only smile and trudge onward. He was somewhat solicitous, I suspect, to check in his son any tendency towards mere poetical sentiment; his own imaginative faculty was rooted in common-sense, and he knew the value of the latter ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
... station, and with luck we may pick up a train there that'll get us back to river bank to-night. And if ever you catch me going a-pleasuring with this provoking animal again!"—He snorted, and during the rest of that weary trudge addressed his ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... crave the shilling For a pot of beer or an ounce of twist As they trudge to their homes through the mire and mist From ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 • Various
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