I also asked if he had never tried to establish, or advocated, or suggested to them any kind of reunions to take place from time to time, or an entertainment or festival to get them to come pleasantly together, making a brightness in their lives-something which would not be cricket or football, nor any form of sport for a few of the men, all the others being mere lookers-on and the women and children left out altogether; something which would be for and include everyone, from the oldest grey labourer no longer able to work to the Toddling little ones; something of their own invention, peculiar to Norton, which would be their pride and make their village dearer to them?
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
We fairly lifted him up and rushed him into the restaurant; and after the first moment he stopped resisting, and let us lead him between the aisles of diners, on the heels of the Toddling T-S. There was a table reserved, in an alcove, and we brought him to it, and then waited to see what we had done.
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
A child was Toddling about the floor and another, a very little girl, lay with a flushed face in a canvas chair.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss