To pause and feel the humility that only comes from unspeakable gratitude: to those who, for example, walked away from home and into battle for their country, and will never walk back home.

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He said he was often waylayed on his short walk back home by colleagues asking him to hand in a petition or a letter to the Pope because of the privileged position he enjoyed inside the Pope's immediate entourage.

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If an expat has a business and it goes belly-up, then they can walk away, go back home or to another country.

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She decided to walk the 40 miles back to her home town along the motorway but was picked up by the side of the road by a man who took her to Manchester.

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If the Senate intrudes into the Sabbath by voting late on Friday, he will walk the four miles back to his Washington home in Georgetown.

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When I take my dog for a walk, I have to take the dog poo back home with me.

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When we tried to walk you back upstairs, you asked how you had gotten home, in utter disbelief that I had joined you in Erie, flew with you, wheeled you through two airports, and back home just that morning.

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"For him to go off nice and relaxed in 24 and change and come home on his own the way he did, and gallop out the way he did, and drop his head and walk home, it sent cold chills up my back, " the Hall of Fame trainer said.

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And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.

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