He pushed his swollen body up out of the chair and plodded heavily from the room.

They followed, plodding heavily after, bearing the burden of their own suits and feeling the unease that came with unknown places when things started going wrong.

The beasts plodded heavily, bearing large platforms on their backs, 'towers' of wood-framed leather walls, each containing four archers and spearmen.

Unwinding before plodding heavily up the stairs for a few hours of sleep.

He left the office and plodded heavily along the stoep to his private quarters, and pushed open the door of his bedroom.

He sometimes watched old ladies plodding heavily across city streets where buses threatened, and knew for certain that inside those shrunken bodies were the shining faces of fourteen-year-olds.

They walked to war; and it was like being in a dead, old, deserted city -deserted except for the straggle of short, thick, slow, stolid men and women who plodded heavily by, unsmiling, without so much as a side glance.

Scott plodded heavily, alone in a vast emptiness with mist to wall away the stars.

She went plodding heavily over the sand that was soft as velvet.

There was no one there to see...but if they had, fear would have been aroused, for in seconds a figure that seemed to have come from another planet plodded heavily across the sand towards the ocean.