Use "plod" em uma frase

1. Naked, I tried to look confident but plodding along the shoreline sinking into sand was like waddling along a tight rope without any sense of balance

2. Andy turned and started plodding along the road; he kept to the right, facing the on-coming traffic as he’d been taught you should when walking along a country road

3. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white

4. That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere

5. As to what was going on in Europa, the war in Gaztela was still plodding along although it was looking more hopeless for the cause of Juana

6. Roger and Josie were plodding along, but they were not connecting

7. There came a same dullness to plodding on so slowly

8. Late afternoon relentlessly merged toward sundown as Moshe followed the placidly plodding animals as they were herded along

9. “Myserrah should be somewhere behind us, probably coming on fast once he got clear of the hills and the washout,” Caleb observed as they rejoined the main body, still plodding purposefully along

10. hills and the washout,” Caleb observed as they rejoined the main body, still plodding

11. seconds before plodding away to do the job

12. On the last day, time lagged as Jasper and I traveled at the plodding speed of the cattle

13. Hardly had he reached the trail than two bronze spear-warriors leaped from the foremost wagon and trotted ahead, arriving at his side well in advance of the plodding caravan

14. This was the way a Su-Katii warrior passed away the boredom of a long trail – plodding along but keeping his mind ever active

15. After half an hour of silent plodding, an idea began to bubble

16. Their marriage had settled into a comfortable numbness where they shared the kids and a home life but lead separate lives, Alice with her rapidly developing business and all the pressures and time demands that went with it, and Gary with, as she saw it, his plodding job

17. It’s not form lack of belief in the realities awaiting realization, but my laziness – A pilgrim may ardently long to reach the golden city and yet loiter on the way, making unnecessary night stops, because he is tired of plodding thru clinging mud or lingering at village fairs because, although their tawdry attractions fall far short of the jeweled splendors awaiting him, they are to be had now, whereas the golden city lies scores of leagues away

18. grimacing boy was calm, col ected and stil slowly plodding in George’s direction,

19. marches on, plodding ahead as though he hasn’t seen the hikers

20. He had no idea how many had left the aircraft and were plodding up the mountain, but he would kill the ones entering the cave and then try to destroy the aircraft

21. She stared at the ground, watching her feet plodding along the path as they continued to make their way along the cliffside, "But you forget, Legate, I have lived more life in my short years than most have lived in their entire lives

22. They neared the base of the mountains, the horses plodding forward in spite of fatigue

23. Humphrey and the old Dutchman were plodding towards the control shed with Anne

24. He could see nothing and was afraid that he might fall into a fit of sneezing amidst this sea of fur, but as he urged the pack forward he could hear the frustrated chuffing and gruffing of the boxers and the muffled swishing and whuffing of their gloves as they jabbed and punched and hooked with apparent determination, but they remained unable to effectively penetrate the plodding mass of hair

25. And I don't know that it is not a nicer sort of soul to have inside one's plodding body than an unwieldy, overgrown thing, chiefly water and air and lightly changeable stuff, so unsubstantial that it flops--forgive the word, but it does flop--on to other souls in search of sympathy and support and comfort and all the rest of the things washer-women waste no time looking for, because they know they wouldn't find them

26. Plodding on down the hall, he disappeared through the kitchen door and backed the GTO from the garage, leaving his unsuspecting non-victim standing under the rush of soothing, hot water

27. Racked with hunger, the shepherd didn’t notice the two figures plodding in the direction of where his master lay

28. A loud plodding sound moved around the floor below them

29. Then their nostrils flared, their ears twitching, as a large, plodding, huffing sound neared

30. He had a plodding gait and an easy-going manner, although the previous owner had warned him that he could get excited unexpectedly and bolt, so it was better not to let him unattended without tying him up

31. now, plodding drunkenly towards the outskirts of

32. He shifted in the straw, his mind elsewhere as he envisioned D’ata on the outskirts of Marseille, plodding along on an old horse—in love

33. Despite D’ata’s insistence, she lumbered back into a plodding walk, tossing her head again in protest

34. discouragement, of dull plodding, suddenly conceive and carry out a plan for doing something that will

35. They became what they named this material: gray souls: dead, grey, lifeless, plodding followers following leaders instead of happy healthy cooperating people who had unique personalities that were not trodden down and squashed

36. For all the long hours he devoted to the work, he lacked the plodding patience and meticulous attention to detail necessary, which explained both his lack of success and his inability to attract funding

37. ‘But that’ll be so hard, just plodding on without any hope,’ he

38. Nonetheless, it sounded pretty convincing to Sophia, so that straightaway, her scowl was changed into a plodding grin

39. Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see

40. It was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings; on each horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist; he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram; for as the cart was thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything that was on it

41. She went plodding heavily over the sand that was soft as velvet

42. He made no reply to this adjuration; only plodding doggedly down the wooden steps, and halting before an apartment which, from that halt and the superior quality of its furniture, I conjectured to be the best one

43. A team of horses passed from Finglas with toiling plodding tread, dragging through the funereal silence a creaking waggon on which lay a granite block

44. The dull driver, smoking his pipe, was plodding along toward the limits of the Faubourg Saint-Denis, where no doubt he ordinarily had his station

45. I began to think wistfully of the police, now plodding over the hills after my wraith

46. Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought

47. Plodding around the parade ground that winter, Louie and Harris befriended Frank Tinker, a dive-bomber pilot and opera singer who had been brought from Kwajalein with Garrett

48. With a "Good-night, Padre," "Good-night, Don Pepe," the Gobernador would go off, holding up his sabre against his side, his body bent forward, with a long, plodding stride in the dark

49. I was plodding up the slope, turning these thoughts over in my mind, and had reached a point which may have been half-way to home, when my mind was brought back to my own position by a strange noise behind me

50. the plodding, tireless “small farmer” who loved his land

51. call him her lord, her own—then, if necessary, to die—had at last lifted her up from her plodding reflective pathway

52. Will saw clearly enough the pitiable instances of long incubation producing no chick, and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon, whose plodding application, rows of note-books, and small taper of learned theory exploring the tossed ruins of the world, seemed to enforce a moral entirely encouraging to Will's generous reliance on the intentions of the universe with regard to himself

53. Certainly, being in love and being expected continually by some one who always turned out to be prettier than memory could represent her to be, did interfere with the diligent use of spare hours which might serve some "plodding fellow of a German" to make the great, imminent discovery

54. Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood, and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted, made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity, and took away the sustainment of resolve

55. After half an hour's plodding climb Strider reached the

56. Frodo and Sam were plodding along with heavy hearts, no longer able to care greatly about their peril

57. When the prosecution is through, Olson has been plodding along like the tortoise that always catches the hare—for six hours

58. Still, not many cabbies had chosen to brave the weather, and she was on the verge of leaving on foot when one finally guided his plodding horse across

59. And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity

60. He turned about and started plodding homeward

61. We would not deal with a man thus plodding ever, leaning on a hoe or a spade as a staff between his work, not as a mushroom, but partially risen out of the earth, something more than erect, like swallows alighted and walking on the ground:—

62. What worried her, however, was that he was not very open to new ideas, and after the long, everlasting plodding for a career, was unmistakably beginning to feel the need of repose

63. No, sir, this is too dull and plodding a pursuit for men of such light, flitting, brilliant imaginations, and if ever they unfortunately undertake it, they soon find the woful misapplication of talents

64. She had moved so soberly, plodding with low head and sleepy eyes, the watchers had given her an ironic cheer, mingled with cat calls

65. Connoisseur that he was in the joys of living, he confessed to a new sensation when, for the first time, he found himself plodding over the seared, round-shouldered hills, spongy with the supererogatory wetness of a three days’ downpour

66. He might assert as lofty a spirit, as unyielding an adherence to the deliberate convictions of his own understanding, as Lord Chatham himself; who, because he set his face against corruption, and had the art of making every coward scoundrel in the nation his foe—concentrating upon himself the "rays of royal indignation, which might illumine but could not consume him;" who, because with intuitive glance he penetrated, resolved and combined every interest of his country, and each design of her enemies, and reached his object "by the flashes of his mind, which, like those of his eye, might be felt but could not be followed," was by the plodding, purblind, groping politicians of the day, attempted to be held up as an empty declaimer, a theatrical gesticulator

67. Tully, and several that I was prevented from hearing, so lifted both teachers and pupils above the plane of plodding school life, that we almost trembled to look down