footpace

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"The Counsellor (as Scott always called him) was," says Mr. Lockhart, "a little man of feeble make, who seemed unhappy when his pony got beyond a footpace, and had never, I should suppose, addicted himself to any out of door's sports whatever.

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  1. noun A walking pace.
  2. noun A raised platform in a room, as for a lecturer; a dais.

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  • Anna moved forward at a footpace, stopping only twice when a clear bootprint presented itself and she paused to photograph it. —  Blood Lure
  • "The Counsellor (as Scott always called him) was," says Mr. Lockhart, "a little man of feeble make, who seemed unhappy when his pony got beyond a footpace, and had never, I should suppose, addicted himself to any out of door's sports whatever. —  Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
  • We bowed and went out On our way back we rode a footpace, while the captain, now ready enough to talk, answered my many questions. —  Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
  • We brought him to this house at a slow footpace, and here a violent fever came on, he became delirious, talked all the nonsense that could possibly come into a human brain, and made us so awfully anxious, that the mere remembrance of that time brings the big drops of perspiration to my forehead Bartja took his friend's hand: "I owe my life to him and Gyges," said he, turning to Darius. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (_descende_! —  Ulysses
 

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