Robin had the reins, and she simply let the press of people carry them along at footpace.

The journey back was slower; Mal's pony moved the tree at an easy footpace.

"Come on at a footpace!

The one-lane dirt road was rutted and, though she drove at a footpace, the car jounced from side to side.

"Haifa day's footpace; perhaps less," Moondance replied, "The which I do not like.

'Go on before, landlord, and show the way,' said Lord George Gordon; 'we will follow at a footpace.'

A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (DESCENDE!)

It was a cross-country road, full, after the first three or four miles, of holes and cart-ruts, which, being covered by the snow, were so many pitfalls to the trembling horses, and obliged them to keep a footpace.

The sacred ministers then form a "semicircle" (really a line) on the altar steps-the celebrant on the top platform (called a footpace), the deacon on a middle step, and the sub-deacon on the bottom step.

The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.

The march dragged on, at foot-pace with all its followers.

The journey back was slower; Mal's pony moved the tree at an easy foot-pace.

A foot-pace carries one too slowly past the units in a decorative scheme that is on a scale with the country round for bigness.

He ran ahead of the van, which was moving on at foot-pace, and seized the bridle of the mule, two-handed.

At first, he made the horse walk the whole circuit of the court-yard at a foot-pace; next at a trot; lastly at a gallop.

In the morning a hawker and his wife went down the street at a foot-pace, singing to a very slow, lamentable music 'O France, mes amours.'

Until the mid-19th century and the spread of railroads, the narrow ambit of nearly every person's life was measured at a foot-pace or, at best, a horse's stride.

Monsieur made a movement of impatience, but as he noticed a smile of triumph pass across the chevalier's lips, he drew up his horse to a foot-pace.

The diminished party was moving at foot-pace in the darkness that seemed to grow denser at every step, and through that silence which was so full of mysterious sounds.

The pony was going at foot-pace: probably the driver was leading it, for the darkness now was intense--the welcome darkness that enveloped the wanderers as in a black shroud.

We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.

Barnaby was so intent upon his favourite, that he was not at first aware of the approach of two persons on horseback, who were riding at a foot-pace, and coming straight towards his post.

Mr Carker the Manager rode on at a foot-pace, with the easy air of one who had performed all the business of the day in a satisfactory manner, and got it comfortably off his mind.

Or the horse plods along at a foot-pace as if there were no such thing as business in the world; and the man dreaming at the tiller sees the same spire on the horizon all day long.

Down in the forest, the diligence would have to go almost at foot-pace, for the outline of every tree on the roadside would be blurred, and objects would loom like ghosts out of the mist.

An hour out of Sidon, Alexander's cavalry transformed it- self into infantry, freed the horses from their bits and re- turned them to the line's and swung into the rhythm of the foot-pace.

A slight respite from this torture came presently when the road began to rise sharply, and the horses, sweating and panting, were put at foot-pace while they dragged the heavy coach up the incline, still in squelching mud.

The road was rough that day, and they went not above a foot-pace the more part of the time; and daylong they were going up and up, and it grew cold as the sun got low; though it was yet summer.

The horses, who, sweating and panting, had fallen into a foot-pace, dragging the heavy coach up the steep incline, through the squelching mud of the road, came to a violent and sudden halt on the very crest of the hill at the first report.

It would be another hour or more yet before Hugh's officers got their prisoners back to Shrewsbury Castle, since they must keep a foot-pace, but before morning Simeon Poer and his henchmen would be safe in hold, under lock and key.

Under the young green leaves, the horse at a foot-pace, the high yellow wheels of the chaise scarcely turning, her face, rippling like grain a-blowing, under her puce-coloured bonnet; and burning beside her, flaming within his correct blue coat and brass buttons, is someone.

He was too angry to say another word; her manner too decided to invite supplication; and in this state of swelling resentment, and mutually deep mortification, they had to continue together a few minutes longer, for the fears of Mr. Woodhouse had confined them to a foot-pace.