Tread

He trod back and forth wearily.

Don't tread on the lawn.

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

yee that walk The Earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep

Actors tread the boards.

to tread lightly, to tread gently

to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily

to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.

I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.

They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes:

But if a child sees a cockerel tread a hen, or two dogs coupling, well and good. It should see these things.

This bird used to try to tread her fellow-hens.

She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.

The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.

But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.

As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.

And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.

The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.