Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a smooth pace or movement; of a regular, easy flow.
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Examples
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Annais carried the baby in a sling; her mount was a smooth-paced black mare, which had been a parting gift from the Emir.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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I hate his smiles, soft ways, and smooth-paced tread,
Tecumseh : a Drama Charles Mair 1882
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It was on Philip's arm that Berenger first crept round the bowling-green, and with Philip at his rein that he first endured to ride along the avenue on Lord Walwyn's smooth-paced palfrey; and it was Philip who interrupted Lucy's household cares by rushing in and shouting, 'Sister, here!
The Chaplet of Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Yet this will I say for Malkin, for so I call her, that unless you were to borrow a ride on the juggler's steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Yet this will I say for Malkin, for so I call her, that unless you were to borrow a ride on the juggler's steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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I call her, that unless you were to borrow a ride on the juggler’s steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Ivanhoe 2004
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a ride on the juggler's steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Ivanhoe 1892
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