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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Arcane Circle

• “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

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

  Le Colonel Chabert

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Porfiry Petrovitch was wearing a dressing-gown, very clean linen, and trodden-down slippers.”

  Crime and Punishment

• “At first the tracks were easy to follow and walking in the trodden-down snow was no problem.”

  Simon & Schuster: Girls to the Rescue book #2

• “I'm pretty certain that the man who lights the lamp didn't come the way we came - we'd have seen trodden-down weeds or something.”

  Five Go Down To The Sea

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