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
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
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
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 Leo Tolstoy, Count
Gradually the train slackened, until it was almost at a footpace.
From A Trip to Manitoba by Mary FitzGibbon
