footpace

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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

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

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

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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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