Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.

... empiricism “A lame cripple going along the right road can overtake a trotter if the latter is running along the wrong road. Moreover, the faster the trotter runs, once having lost the path, the further he lags behind the cripple”.[…]

Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.

One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff of his county.

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