footpace

Example Sentences

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On our way back we rode a footpace, while the captain, now ready enough to talk, answered my many questions.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The altar, where a weekly requiem had been said for them, was gone, and the footpace and piscina alone showed where it had stood.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

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 Lynde, Francis