Large sections of the book, it must be said, revisit well-trodden ground.

History teaches that the path to war is a well trodden one.

The old, trodden, half-cleansed door-mat in her hands,-thejust-createdbeauty in his.

The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void.

And that you have trodden me down in the struggle for existence.

And the trodden earth held fresh and plain the trail he sought.

He brushed up the trodden grass and carefully smoothed the trampled earth.

Rupert gasped, not a bit of it; only almost trodden to death.

The down trodden Native American won the day in my epic films.

They shall be trodden as ashes beneath the feet of the righteous.

Felix the Roman governor was a specimen of the trodden way side.

But there were no tracks in the softer soil, no trodden-down grass.

Even this is the righteous path that is trodden by the righteous.

The mechanical feet pounded away, the soldiers following on the trodden snow.

It was harvest-time, and the crops and vineyards were mercilessly trodden down.

The ritual proceeded along well-trodden, predictable paths, which proved, nonetheless, unexpectedly satisfying.