footpace
Example Sentences
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"I think you must have taken Uncle Sidney unawares," said Alicia, when the caravan was toiling at a slow footpace along the rough wagon road paralleling the Horse Creek grade.
From Empire Builders by Jay Hambidge
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 Rudyard Kipling
He had clothed himself in mean apparel, and rode at a footpace straight to the city, where dwelt the daughter of the King.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
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
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 Leo Tolstoy, Count
