footpace

Example Sentences

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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

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

They rode at a footpace to the barn, where a large crowd of peasants was standing.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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 Morris, William

Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now going.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf