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footpace

[foot-pays] / ˈfʊtˌpeɪs /


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Birdalone did as she was bidden, and the witch called unto her Atra, who came and stood humbly on the footpace beside her, and held converse with her mistress a while. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

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

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

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 sanctuary is paved with coloured tesserae and marbles, in a series of five steps, the uppermost of which forms the predella, or footpace, to the altar.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by George Worley


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