footpace
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From behind our thicket screen we presently saw a file of Indian horsemen riding at a leisurely footpace down the path.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Gradually the train slackened, until it was almost at a footpace.
From A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
The sanctuary is paved with coloured tesserae and marbles, in a series of five steps, the uppermost of which forms the predella, or footpace, to the altar.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by George Worley
They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
The Cossacks rode forward silently, now at a footpace, then at a trot, and these changes were the only incidents that interrupted for a moment the stillness and solemnity of their movements.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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