The people on the canal were, of course, the bargees, who steered the slow barges up and down, or walked beside the old horses that trampled up the mud of the towing-path, and strained at the long tow-ropes.
"He'll be picked up dead some morning—he'll fall under his horse's hoofs and be trampled to death," said Cousin Stickles reassuringly.
Runners aim to feel the breath of the bulls on their backs, and some even goad the animals by swatting them with rolled up newspapers--all while trying to avoid being gored or trampled.
The primary issue is a sense of being kicked, trampled, or pushed in the water, especially at the beginning.
Then the doctor jumped onto the board and trampled upon it at random with all his might.
It affects not only the trampled green space but also its buffer, where someone, till now, could stop to help a tortoise cross the highway without setting off half a mile of honking cars.
Thirty-seven people died in 2004 when they were trampled on a bridge during the Lunar New Year holiday.
But at the moment, I watched with horror as one of the "chapandaz" fell off his saddle and was trampled under a score of hooves.
Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.
It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet by the elephant, and I stood as if in a dream watching the herd, which turned and trampled off in another direction, and were soon hidden in the dense underwood.
" The old man took a young tree, put it in a hole, drove in a post beside it, and when he had shovelled in some earth and had trampled it firmly down, he tied the stem of the tree above, below, and in the middle, fast to the post by a rope of straw.
The fire was to have lighted the dry grass, and the huntsman was to have been suffocated in the heat and smoke, but the animals came running up and trampled out the fire.
" And then the words of the kind people who had adopted her came to her ears, when they said, "Inge was a sinful girl, who did not value the gifts of God, but trampled them under her feet.
I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has my highest favor; and if she does not come, the whole court shall be trampled upon after supper is ended.
The luxuriant herbage is trampled down, crushed by the feet of elephants.
