Word: trodden
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...ordinarily would. This is unfortunate and we advise every man to remember that such a low condition of affairs will not last, and that it is the duty of every man who takes even the slightest interest in foot ball, to redouble his efforts to prevent it from being trodden out at this unfortunate crisis...
Where the trodden leaves are silent...
TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...
...numerical point of view, of all Greek courses. The study of Cervantes, Dante, and of Old French literature received an impulse from this class they had never before known, while three of her members have climbed to dizzy heights in Mathematics which have been rarely, if ever, trodden by undergraduate feet. We venture to predict that it is a class that will most emphatically be "heard of again." We wish them all god-speed in every good work...
...back, just on the eve of the great Revolution, while yet patriots were few and poorly equipped, when the Redcoats came and seized the cherished store of ammunition, - an event which struck terror into many a wavering heart. But the thought that Washington and the great American leaders have trodden here, that near its walls midnight parties have assembled, and in its sight friend and foe have marshalled, lend to it an interest beyond any admiration its foreign aspect and solitary picturesqueness can command...