retrod

• “With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth, and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time, and exchanged the discoveries of recent enquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchymists.”

  Chapter 3

• “That Avatar merely retrod territory we've seen on the big screen a thousand times before hardly mattered given the visual ambition and the pitch-perfect performances.”

  The Guardian: Audiences will be blue in the face after Avatar: Special Edition 3D

• “Jim retrod the miles to the kiln, and looked to the fires.”

  The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

• “With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.”

  Frankenstein

• “Here, on the first land he retrod, he dedicated his winged oarage to thee, O Phoebus, in the vast temple he built.”

  The Aeneid of Virgil

• “Sadly and quietly, the troops retrod the familiar mud of their old camp grounds.”

  Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

• “Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.”

  The Last Man

• “At first she hesitated, -- then gradually and timidly retrod her way to the seat she had so abruptly quitted in her alarm.”

  Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3

• “Only one of the two men now retrod his steps from the beach towards the hut, but with a more hurried action than before.”

  The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1

• “The instant Captain Truck retrod the deck of his ship was one of uncontrollable feeling with the weather-beaten old seaman.”

  Homeward Bound or, the Chase

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