So we must undertake the rigorous, painstaking, and yes, sometimes plodding task of listening carefully to the broad range of perspectives that surround us, instead of blazing forth complacently.
And, instead of the usual crowd of the reverents, all we have kneeling before her are two old pilgrims who have plodded miles on their bare and calloused feet.
He made no reply to this adjuration; only plodding doggedly down the wooden steps, and halting before an apartment which, from that halt and the superior quality of its furniture, I conjectured to be the best one.
" I beg your pardon. I didn't see the name distinctly. Never mind, I can walk. I'm used to plodding in the mud, " returned Jo, winking hard, because she would have died rather than openly wipe her eyes.
If the vaccination effort is more piecemeal-as it is in the U.S. now with the plodding rollout-there may be more opportunities for SARS-CoV-2 to develop mutations that make it resistant to the vaccines.
The silence conveyed to neither any sense of awkwardness; in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech.
Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.