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Meanings of trotting on in English

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Usage of trotting on in English
1
But saying Mass now is like fox trotting on the Titanic.
The Irish Times
2
So, whistling with moist tunelessness, he rounded the Point, Kobuk trotting on ahead.
Where the Sun Swings North
3
Would a runner be content only trotting on a treadmill?
Climbing Magazine
4
A few minutes later the Harvard team came trotting on.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
5
I met an orderly in hussar uniform of blue and silver, trotting on his errand.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5
6
Behind most of the peasant-vehicles were tied a few horses, that went trotting on with them.
O. T., A Danish Romance
7
The kones followed easily, trotting on four legs.
Genellan: planetfall
8
July and Joe waited until the wrangler had them headed north before trotting on toward the wagon.
Lonesome dove
9
Reuben at once called to the trackers, who were trotting on ahead, and then ordered a halt.
A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
10
Young men in the blue and gold striped stockings of the Navy were trotting on to the field.
Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for ...
11
Dogs trotting on the same leash.
The sun over breda
12
Patrick halted his men beyond the hill crest, and there the Colonel joined him, trotting on his stockinged feet.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917
13
He noticed So Mi Dar was favouring one of her hind legs while she was trotting on Monday morning.
The Guardian
14
Ever time he stop and start talking dey pop de whip at his heels and he start trotting on.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
15
In his globe- trotting on the job, he gets to know the countries he visits by reading novels by local authors.
Reuters
16
I never thought it a possible thing till I saw his horse trotting on ahead of us without a rider.
Dark Hollow
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Trotting on across language varieties
United Kingdom
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