footpace
Example Sentences
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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
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 Benson, Robert Hugh
It came at a footpace past the wicket-gate of the station, and the doctor stopped it with a whisper.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard
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
They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.
From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
