Since desertions among goblin ranks were surely not an uncommon thing, the goblin leaders seemed to relax almost immediately, and with new trails found, they soon started the caravan along its plodding way once more.

The lawmakers' swift action demonstrated that a legislative body known for its plodding ways and entrenched partisan politics could exert a different kind of influence on state government.

"Look at that sword Lumpyhead's got there," Lommy said one morning as they made their plodding way past orchards and wheat fields.

Gently, then, he urged the yagi on its plodding way, leaving just enough room out of the top of the blanket for him to see out and guide the beast in the proper direction.

Aware in his plodding way that Mara's talent for commerce overshadowed his, Buntokapi had confined himself to seeing that his wife did not gain control of his household.

Their minds are slower than ours and they think in a clumsy plodding way.

"We'll just run it down in our own plodding way."

Mr. Rumsfeld had long been impatient with what he thought was a plodding, risk-averse and overly costly way of waging war.

And chicken fried steak - that old standby for the iron-stomach crowd - manages to make its plodding way into the compendium.

Chapter 15 The day turned out to be a long and wearing one for Metika and Breccio as they made their plodding way through the seemingly endless "backstage" area of Enowil's world.