footpace
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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 Robert Hugh Benson
Dolokhov was a long time mounting his horse which would not stand still, then he rode out of the yard at a footpace.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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