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)

"I think you must have taken Uncle Sidney unawares," said Alicia, when the caravan was toiling at a slow footpace along the rough wagon road paralleling the Horse Creek grade.

From Empire Builders by Hambidge, Jay

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

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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

The Cossacks rode forward silently, now at a footpace, then at a trot, and these changes were the only incidents that interrupted for a moment the stillness and solemnity of their movements.

From The Cossacks by Tolstoy, Leo, graf