Use tread in a sentence
Sentences starting with tread
- Tread the measure, with fearless stamp, Of this our reckless, rapturous dance, In holy rejoicing! [10]
- Tread him under foot. [12]
Sentences ending with tread
- How softly she tread! [9]
- I could see the gleam of the lamps on their bayonets and hear their soft tread. [4]
- You think, too, that you sway this kingdom; but I know that you stand upon a cliff's edge, and that the earth is fraying 'neath your tread. [11]
- Some poet has said: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [7]
- Youth has a right to go astray now and then so long as it does not entirely forget the path in which it ought to tread. [10]
- Beside the body of Father Benedictus he learned how beautiful had been the death of the old man who had so honestly striven to lead him into the path which he believed was the right one for him to tread. [10]
- The Athenian bounded lightly from the boat, the Spartan following with a heavier, firmer tread. [10]
- Selene pushed her aside, and said, turning to her father: "The cut on my head is nothing to speak of, but the muscles and veins here at the ancle are swelled and my leg hurts me rather when I tread. [10]
- She was musing among those flying perceptions, those nebulous facts of a new life, experienced for the first time; she was now not herself as she had been; another woman was born; and she was feeling carefully along the unfamiliar paths which she must tread. [11]
- He walked with a lighter tread. [5]
Sentences containing tread two or more times
- Tread, O joy of my life, tread lightly! [11]
- For, whatever might come, he knew in his heart of hearts that the "old paths" were the only paths which he could tread in peace--or tread at all without the ruin of all he had slowly builded. [11]
More example sentences with the word tread in them
- Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
- Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
- The oracle guaranteed you a safe road to tread through life. [10]
- They are coming with staves and spears and they will tread us down as grass and burn us in this house like the locusts cast into the oven. [10]
- Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. [10]
- When a man who has been bred to free thought and free speech suddenly finds himself stepping about, like a dancer amidst his eggs, among the old addled majority-votes which he must not tread upon, he is a spectacle for men and angels. [6]
- In a little while the measured tread of military men was heard approaching, and the culprits entered the presence in charge of an under-sheriff and escorted by a detail of the king's guard. [5]
- Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
- A favorite one was to make a moccasined person tread in the tracks of the moccasined enemy, and thus hide his own trail. [5]
- Cousin Maud, who was ever wont to mount the stair with an echoing tread and a loud voice, now went about stepping softly in her shoes, and when she called or spoke it was gently and scarce to be heard. [10]
- Though his head was bowed, he crossed the little garden with a swift, firm tread, and, without noticing the questions and warnings of his companions, walked at once to the impluvium. [10]
- That one sound was all that visited the ear in the summer stillness--just that one sound--the muffled tread of the marching host. [5]
- Even Puss, who walked where angels feared to tread, did not dare to go too far with Virginia. [9]
- To hear the tread of the flying herds, to see no being save him, the Scarlet Hunter, to hear the voices calling in the night! [11]
- It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. [7]
- Frank Armour must tread a difficult road. [11]
- That would be too pleasant a compliment for me to tread in the dust. [7]
- Life has leaves to tread And flowers to cherish; summer round thee glows; Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed, But while its petals still are burning red Gather life's full-blown rose! [6]
- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy--is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! [12]
- She hoped that the Pharoah would refuse, and personally offend the Regent, and so make him more inclined to tread the dangerous road which she was endeavoring to smooth for him. [10]
- He looked at the glittering beaker, and then, with a flash of his grave, bright eyes, he added: "And if I am betrayed--if ten such as Ameni and Ani entice my people into a snare--I shall return home, and will tread the reptiles into dust. [10]
- I cannot bear that all my old companions should launch away into the married state, and leave me alone to tread this desolate and sterile shore. [4]
- Unmindful of her stealthy tread, her victim holds his course in fancied triumph. [12]
- The door slammed so that the house shook, and by degrees the smith's heavy tread died away in the vestibule. [10]
- She was still ruminating upon his curious behaviour, when the floor of the crazy stairs and landing cracked beneath the tread of the other travellers who were passing to their beds. [12]
- Then she suddenly rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. [2]
- We are getting reconciled to halls and bedchambers with unhomelike stone floors and no carpets--floors that ring to the tread of one's heels with a sharpness that is death to sentimental musing. [5]
- Before they had reached Bagration, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in step could be heard. [2]
- Henrica's over-excited senses perceived the light tread of the satin shoes and the rustle of the silk train, long before the approaching form had reached the room, and with quickened breathing, she sat erect. [10]
- Look into your own soul, and teach the devout a horror of sin, and show them the way, which you must now tread, of purification of the heart. [10]
- The passage broke off in the middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary's heavy tread and the sound of kissing. [2]
- The very horror of what Eldon Parr was now to suffer turned Hodder cold as he rang the bell and listened for the soft tread of the servant who would answer his summons. [9]
- My Rebel was of slight, scholastic habit, and spoke as one accustomed to tread carefully among the parts of speech. [6]
- In the stillness of his tread and the composed sorrow of his face he seemed like one long dead who "revisits the glimpses of the moon. [11]
- With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. [2]
- He would mar nothing, scatter nothing to the winds, tread nothing in the dust but the burning passion, the fevered longing for her, which had fired his blood ever since that night when he had vanquished the raving Masdakite. [10]
- Why were you not here to see Miss Manners tread a minuet? [9]
- There is a noise of tongues, and tread of feet, inside. [12]
- The tread reached my very door and paused--the light had dwindled to a sickly blue, and all things about me lay in a spectral twilight. [5]
- So, I set my course by the light of your eyes; I care not what fate may send; On the road I tread shine the love-starred skies, The road with never an end. [11]
- Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post. [2]
- At last the music sounded the well-known summons, and the floors began to ring to the tread of the dancers. [6]
- In the same moment I heard that elephantine tread again. [5]
- I pass the low wall where the ivy entwines; I tread the brown pathway that leads through the pines; I haste by the boulder that lies in the field, Where her promise at parting was lovingly sealed. [6]
- He heard the loud echo of his feet upon that hollow plateau of rock, with convex skin of stone laid upon convex skin, and then suddenly the solid rock which gave no echo under his tread, where Rhodes lies buried. [11]
- Half an hour later he held her in his arms at the gate, and she heard his firm tread die in the dust of the road. [9]
- And following Mr. Jenks's directions she put her toe on the tread, and shrank back when the monster responded with a snort and a roar. [9]
- Everything which they in their vainglory regard as 'beneath them' they tread into the dust--and we--you and I, all who labor with their hands in the service of the state--we, in their dull eyes, are beneath them. [10]
- On the contrary, if you will sometimes think of the distant, I ought to say, of the departed, friend, (for as long as I live I shall never be permitted to tread Egyptian ground again), let it be with smiling faces; do not cry, 'Ah! [10]
- Never, never will I tread the spot again. [10]
- Only one thing I do know; the serpent is already sharpening its fangs to sting the heel of Him who shall tread upon it. [10]
- An almost intolerable hour dragged to a close; then I heard his welcome tread, and rose gasping and tottered to meet him. [5]
- I can hear him with his heavy tread as he comes in to the Club, and a gap is widened to make room for his portly figure. [6]
- Then a steep highway that leads Somewhere, cold, austere; And I follow a shadow that heeds My coming, and points, not in wrath, Out over: we tread the sere path Up to the summit; recedes All gloom; and at last The beauty a flower-land hath. [11]
- It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. [2]
- The old man heard from afar the younger man's footstep, which fell on the earth with a firmer and more decided tread than that of the softly-stepping priests of Serapis, and he greeted him warmly with signs and words. [10]
- In this, however, he was mistaken; for, after the knock had been repeated with increased impatience, the door was opened, and somebody with a very heavy tread went up the stairs and into the room above. [12]
- The spot that he must tread was unclean, and he had, for the first time, told a lie. [10]
- Then I had had a visitor, and the elephant tread was explained. [5]
- Did they not follow her in her movements, as she turned her tread this or that way? [6]
- It has a flooring of laths with ridges of mortar squeezed up between them, which if you tread on you will go to--the Lord have mercy on you! [6]
- I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms, And feel (companion of the dead) I 'm living in the tombs. [7]
- The great Augustine, even, had been no model of virtue in his youth and yet he had become a shining light in the Church; and now the son of the Mukaukas would tread in his father's footsteps. [10]
- People will come early from the villages and tread down the snow, so the dogs will lose the scent. [10]
- I fancied I could hear the tread of the stealthy brutes following their prey. [4]
- Every rent and chasm of time, every mouldering tint and weather-stain, is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance, we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale. [4]
- The steps creaked beneath its noiseless tread, and it was gone. [12]
- But this morning as she followed the path she was accustomed to tread day by day at the same hour, she felt an anxious shiver. [10]
- We hear catamounts, and the stealthy tread of things in the leaves, and the hooting of owls, and, when the moon rises, the laughter of the loon. [4]
- For above half an hour he paced his tent with a firmer tread, then he desired that Heliodorus his secretary might be called. [10]
- When he came along with elastic tread as if he were challenging life to a conflict, and I saw him spring up the stairs three steps at a time, I was delighted, and I knew that my mother was very fond of him. [10]
- A draught of air rushed through this hall, and in stormy weather switched the water all over the floor, now robbed of its mosaics, and covered, wherever the foot could tread, with a thin, dark green, damp and slippery coating of mossy plants and slime. [10]
- Where the mountains afar are dim 'Neath the tremulous tread of the seraphim, Shall not our querulous hearts prevail, That have prayed for the peace of the Holy Grail. [11]
- She came like a song, she will go like a star: I shall tread the hills as the hunter can, Mine eyes to the hunt, and my soul afar- I was stone; but I waked with the heart of a man. [11]
- Go then with a soft tread, Mizraim. [11]
- They were in a frozen endlessness that stretched away to a world where never voice of man or clip of wing or tread of animal is heard. [11]
- The life of a friendless though not penniless relation, taken into a wealthy house out of charity, had proved a thorny path to tread, but now-since the day before yesterday--all was changed. [10]
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