foot-pace

plural foot-paces

1. alternativeAlternative form of footpace.

   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.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185

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   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.

   1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 57.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 266

   On the hither side of the bridge Colonel Karl Bogdanitch Schoubert came up with Denissow’s division but did not go beyond a foot-pace, riding almost by the side of Rostow; […]

   1886, Léon Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter XV, in Clara Bell, transl., War and Peace: A Historical Novel: […]: Before Tilsit: 1805–1807: Two Volumes, revised and corrected edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: William S. Gottsberger, publisher […], →OCLC, pages 229–230