footpace

Example Sentences

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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

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

At the upper end, upon a footpace and carpet, stood the Protector, with a chair of state behind him, and divers of his Council and servants about him.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David

Dolokhov was a long time mounting his horse which would not stand still, then he rode out of the yard at a footpace.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf