Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging his heavy, clumsy figure, the man at last reached the very top flight and stopped before a half-open door hanging off its hinges.
I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.
Helene says, " And the Jamisons had their flowerbeds trampled and a small fire set on their lawn three weeks ago." A " flower bed" is an area in your lawn or in your garden where there are flowers.