Tramped

Blythe said the idea for Akenfield (he took the name from the old English “acen” for acorn) arrived as he tramped the Suffolk fields pondering the anonymity of most farm labourers’ lives.

I tramped through the black earth region because that was once the richest farmland in Russia and because the correspondents have been forbidden to go there to see for themselves what is happening.

Lindsay, then a household name and troubadour of poetry who tramped across the country three times trading rhymes for bread, eulogized Altgeld’s integrity and bravery for pardoning the Haymarket anarchists.

My nephews and son had grumbled a little about missing a day on the Atlantic beach, but fell silent as we tramped up the steep stairs to the balcony once reserved for enslaved people.

One frozen afternoon, as Cullen drifted into a long nap, the older boys pulled on their boots and tramped into the icy, manure-covered lot where the cows feed during the day.

We turned off at the attractive little town of Ardara, heading west to the Sturrall, a vast wilderness of cliffs and wild seas where we tramped along a coastal path, then gingerly picked our way around the grassy edges of Sturrall Point.