Our modern system of combating her is too long defensive, and carried on too ploddingly with concrete engines of war in the attack.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
There were three figures in the lead, a man and two boys, and they walked slowly, ploddingly, as if weary from a long march.
"Rainbow's End"
Rex Beach
He entered the tunnel slowly, ploddingly; with lagging muscles he hauled up the bucket which told of Harry's presence below, then slowly lowered himself into the recesses of the shaft and to the drift leading to the stope, where only a few days before they had found that gaunt, whitened, haunting thing which had brought with it a new misfortune.
"The Cross-Cut"
Courtney Ryley Cooper