trodden-down

That was when a semitrailer truck bounced past the house, as in, in my yard, and headed through the cornfield along the path of the trodden-down stalks.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

That was when a semitrailer truck bounced past the house, as in, in my yard, and headed through the cornfield along the path of the trodden-down stalks.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

That was when a semitrailer truck bounced past the house, as in, in my yard, and headed through the cornfield along the path of the trodden-down stalks.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

Well, place yourself in the trodden-down heels of our old pal Millicent, the agency screener, the fortunate soul charged with both opening all of those query letters and giving a first reading to requested materials, to weed out the ones that her boss the agent will not be interested in seeing, based upon pre-set criteria.

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The long-faded brand names on the inside of the trodden-down shoes are just about legible as LK Bennett, instead of being just about legible as New Look.

River Island : The Bubonic Plaque juliette 2009

And did you see his trodden-down boots that let the water in, and his stock which serves for a shirt?

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

And did you see his trodden-down boots that let the water in, and his stock which serves for a shirt?

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

What will you say on learning that I am not the trodden-down “lady by birth” that you have supposed me?

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots.

War and Peace 2003

The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.

War and Peace 2003