The moon was full, and about a hundred yards offshore the officers saw a hundred-and-fifty-foot tramp steamer that had run aground.
Shortly afterward came horn-tooting musical sea lions, and, yes, a vast population of clowns — clowns on stilts, clowns with flapping feet, tramp clowns and firefighting clowns, and a balloon-bellied clown trailing a hawser-sized leash attached to a tiny trotting dog in a pointed hat.
They sought to outrun the swift Panamanian patrol boats with their 450-foot tramp steamer, loaded down with at least six containers of antiquated Cuban air-defense equipment hidden under 10,000 tons of bagged sugar.
The chalk-white bird with yellow feet is tramping through a marsh, looking for dinner.
I was helped to my feet by a tramp (female).
Not only did those feet in ancient time tramp almost all of Britain, but someone was also there to write it down.
A former British diplomat who had previously tramped on foot across Afghanistan, he found himself, for most of the year after the invasion, in charge of Maysan, an Iraqi province bordering Iran in the south-east.
Over the years, the play has been performed everywhere and subjected to multiple interpretations: one Romanian production began with the Christ-like handyman bathing the tramp's feet to the sound of Bach's Mass in B Minor, as if the whole play were a religious allegory.
THE paths crossing the hills and valleys of Derbyshire were worn deep by the passage of millions of feet, as villagers tramped to and from the mills that once dotted the countryside.
You can always recognise my restless peers and me; we are the people whose feet you hear tramping along the pavement at the other end of the phone line because we can only make calls while moving.
Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying".
