footpace
Example Sentences
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I made no answer—what answer had I to make?—and we rode at a footpace down the street; he and I leading, Clon and the shock-headed man bringing up the rear.
From Under the Red Robe by Stanley John Weyman
Birdalone did as she was bidden, and the witch called unto her Atra, who came and stood humbly on the footpace beside her, and held converse with her mistress a while.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
Nicholas sent the man to call Natasha and Petya to him, and rode at a footpace to the place where the whips were getting the hounds together.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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
