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Plodder   Listen
noun
Plodder  n.  One who plods; a drudge.






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"Plodder" Quotes from Famous Books



... young bucks on charge of killing Finn, the sheep herder, on the Piney last week. I don't believe the Sioux began it. There's a bad lot among those damned rustlers," said Webb, snapping the glass into its well-worn case. "But no matter who starts, we have to finish it. Old Plodder is worried and wants help. Reckon I'll have ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

... of some twenty years before; the flickering candles, the gray walls covered with dancing shadows, the yellow gold,—beautiful in the light. He could see Bronson working,—always the plodder, always the fool! Behind him Rutheford, his partner, the pick in his arms and his brave intent in his brain. Then one ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall

... path, of following it without seeing a step before him, or a glimpse of blue sky above him, sometimes only knowing that it is the right path because it is the only one, and because it leads upward. This our daily duty was to us. Though we did not always know it, the faithful plodder was sure to win the heights. Unconsciously we learned the lesson that only by humble Doing can any of us win the lofty possibilities of Being. For indeed, what we all want to find is not so much our place as our path. The path leads to the place, and the place, when ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom

... there, as elsewhere;—but I cannot comprehend what debility of that mind could suggest such a wish. I, who have heard him, cannot regret any thing but that I shall never hear him again. What! would he have been a plodder? a metaphysician?—perhaps a rhymer? a scribbler? Such an exchange must have been suggested by illness. But he is gone, and Time "shall not look upon his ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron



Words linked to "Plodder" :   slowpoke, drudge, trudger, slowcoach, trailer, dawdler, lagger, pedestrian, slogger, hack, poke, footer, laggard, plod



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