History, on most of its pages, shows that war-war,-that ruthless trampler upon the innocent scarcely less than upon the offending, has ever been a very common, if not the chief, instrument by which oppressed people have gained deliverance, and through use of which the depressed have come up to higher stand-points.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
It isn't any wonder at all that a child would be a liar and a sleeveen and a trampler of the roads with the first man that nods to her when her mother is a foolish person that she can't trust.
"Mary, Mary"
James Stephens Commentator: Padraic Colum
I abhor you-invader of the world-trampler underfoot of the humanities-enemy of mankind-apostle of force!
"The Burning Spear"
John Galsworthy