footpace
Example Sentences
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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
They proceeded in single file and at a footpace, for the highway had been honeycombed and rendered unsafe; it also ascended steadily.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
The ground rose steadily, but with an easy inclination, and we climbed with the wind at our backs; climbed, as it seemed, for an hour, or maybe two, at a footpace, keeping silence.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It came at a footpace past the wicket-gate of the station, and the doctor stopped it with a whisper.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard
To readers whose taste for fiction has been cloyed by novels full of incident, movement, and compression, nothing could be more maddening than the leisurely footpace at which the story drags its slow length along.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
