For he was, in his own eyes, a humble plodder, not in the swim at all.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
We cannot remember any instance of a plodder who started in with nothing and made his millions who during the operation dressed in extremes.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Pinto might be a faithful plodder and a dangerous adversary in a physical encounter, but it was plain that he possessed only ordinary intelligence.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon