footpace
Example Sentences
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Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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 George Frisbie Whicher
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
He had clothed himself in mean apparel, and rode at a footpace straight to the city, where dwelt the daughter of the King.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
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
