plodder

He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was.

Here was Jane Andrews, that plain little plodder, engaged to a millionaire, while Anne, it seemed, was not yet bespoken by any one, rich or poor.

And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.

'I am, in general,' said Mr Pancks, 'a dry, uncomfortable, dreary Plodder and Grubber.

A dramatic writer, as few people know, is made up of three individuals; first, the man with brains who invents the subject and maps out the structure, or scenario, of the vaudeville; second, the plodder, who works the piece into shape; and third, the toucher-up, who sets the songs to music, arranges the chorus and concerted pieces and fits them into their right place, and finally writes the puffs and advertisements.

After one month he had braced himself up and sacked the Punctual Plodder.

Most people see through his 'amiable old plodder' routine and look at his shocking past in politics.

BEING a bit of an old plodder myself these days it's probably appropriate I'm running the rule over the Ascot Stakes (5.00).

Team Plodder made the trek from Whitehaven to Tynemouth to raise cash for five charities.

Rides include the Greenway Plodder at 4pm on Thursday August 15.

The plodder's plodder isn't prone to doing anything above the mundane - both on and off the golf course.