9. It is a foul sin to disturb them; but retread your devious way, and let her hear your coming footsteps, breaking down the briers, as you renew the danger.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
For him, for the time, further progress is blocked; he must turn all his efforts wearily to retread the ground he had already trodden, and to regain and make sure his footing on the place from which he had slipped.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant
Its glowing reflection on the distant hills reminded Wallace of the stretch he had to retread to reach his home before midnight; and thinking of his anxious Marion, he awaited with impatience the development of the object of his journey.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter