footpace
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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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Robert Hugh Benson
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 George Frisbie Whicher
Gradually the train slackened, until it was almost at a footpace.
From A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
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 Leo Tolstoy, Count
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