Word: treading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Before the tread of countless feet
...friends, and clean out those blarsted Hinglishmen, and may God bless you!' We would n't pluck a single leaf from her well-earned laurels, and for the time must be content with a seat under the gallery. But when Harvard, with victorious self-assurance, steps one side to tread on our corns and tread on our noses as it were, . . . . we propose to stop it." This indignation is caused by our negotiations with Cornell and Columbia, and by something that has been said in the Boston Herald about Mr. Peabody's rowing on our crew. We are not aware...
With noiseless tread I forward crept...
...forward strode with a noiseless tread...
...come to the throne with a softened tread...