"Step on it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are told, there sprouted out young trees from the rich mould, to which the old ones were at last reduced. A deceitful bark, it is added, sometimes still covered the interior rotten substance, in which a person attempting to step on it, might sink to the waist. Such were the common disappointments in this Utopia. The naturalists had to add to them, the appropriate mortification of seeing numerous trees and shrubs, of which, as the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr
... back of the wagon. The end, or "tail," board was down, so there was no trouble in dropping the box out of the wagon to the ground. Then Bunny could step on it and get out. He also helped Sue down. But first they pulled the big basket of groceries close to the end of the wagon, where they could ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home • Laura Lee Hope |
