Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope.

The hard stone
Under our feet, on which we tread and go. Chaucer.

Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel. Shak.

Forbid to tread the promised land he saw. Prior.

Methought she trod the ground with greater grace. Dryden.

They have measured many a mile,
To tread a measure with you on this grass. Shak.

Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Ps. xliv. 5.

To tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. -- To tread the stage, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat. Tennyson.