Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrodden
Literary usage of Retrodden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"Some such series of steps as removed the traces of feudal servitude in "the old
world might be retrodden in the new, with a similar •useful result. ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"At this next, and other succeeding stages, the same ground will be retrodden:
and in it, as relative capacity advances, information will be afforded, ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1875)
"... I crave not any comfort of the day That is not, nor on time's retrodden track
Would turn to meet the white-robed hours or black That long since left me ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"The event seems to mark the century as one in which the old paths would be
retrodden, and be found to abound in riches unseen to the ages which had passed ..."
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