Word: treads
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...yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
...trail breaker is never easy. It is necessary to tread slowly, and aid is not to be expected perhaps until the trail is pretty well blazed. Michigan is to be congratulated for her courage in accepting the responsibility of leadership in what, on paper at least, looks like one of the soundest football reforms offered in years...
...airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...
...journey. Fearing for his eyesight-for it has been falling somewhat-and the feeling that the added burden of spectacles would be more than his depleted circumstances would bear comfortably, he had decided to be at least as much of a vagabond as a student and occasionally tread upon the sweet, scented pathways of wholly useless enjoyment...
...braked. But from the rear-yes? no? . . . No, there was no visible difference; a new Ford would be scarcely distinguishable from an old until you passed it. The highway had had its face lifted but would do its back hair as always. Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have a front view of any new Fords going their way, was suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished...