footpace

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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 Weyman, Stanley John

Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.

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 sanctuary is paved with coloured tesserae and marbles, in a series of five steps, the uppermost of which forms the predella, or footpace, to the altar.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by Worley, George

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