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  • noun Plural form of trampler.

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Examples

  • Acorna knew that the sap covering the downed Khleevi would eat into the feet of the tramplers, but by the time the attackers realized they were injured, it would probably be too late for her and Aari.

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  • In their giddy efforts to retard progress, the dream-tramplers gleefully cite legions of previous invaders who stumbled in their attempts to subdue the fearless keepers of Kabul.

    Ned Goldreyer: Where No Man Has Won Before 2009

  • The noise from the street was diminished at this height; no possible tramplers could establish themselves above your head; the air was bound to be purer than that of inferior strata; finally, one had the flat roof whereon to sit or expatiate in sunny weather.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Intoxicated by his triumph, he began to show off his power over the Inglese for the benefit of the tramplers behind.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • The work is severe upon the muscles of the legs and the tramplers have to be relieved every half hour.

    Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

  • "Byron threw himself upon poetry as his organ; and in poetry his topics were not Queen Mab, and the Witch of the Atlas, and the Sensitive Plant, they were the upholders of the old order, George the Third and Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington and Southey, and they were the canters and tramplers of the great world, and they were his enemies and himself."

    Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • As there is no enemy so bitter as the estranged friend, so of all the tyrants and tramplers upon the poor, there is none so fierce and reckless as the upstart that sprang from their ranks.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

  • The worst of it is, that nobody knows which is which of these two termagant tramplers: both are thoroughly protean creatures, changing shapes and characters, and assuming a thousand different forms every day; so that it is a task all but impossible to distinguish one from the other.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Various 1841

  • After a protracted tussle in which Yacoub demanded Hitchens' press badges, then after a cooling off in which he gave them back, then after a resumption of hostilities when Hitchens decided he didn't want his Kuwaiti press badge back as the Kuwaitis were proving themselves the tramplers of liberty, Yacoub screamed that Hitchens would "leave Kuwait tonight!"

    Slate Articles Matt Labash 2011

  • We cannot but recommend to these trans-atlantic tramplers upon the freedom and rights of man, in defiance of all divine and human laws, the following lines of Mr. James --

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

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