foot pace

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English

Noun

foot pace (plural foot paces)

Alternative form of footpace.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Emma: , volume I, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 282:
  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.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, “Explosion”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, , →OCLC, book the second (Reaping), page 212:
  There was a sweep of some half mile between the lodge and the house, and he was riding along at a foot pace over the smooth gravel, once Nickits’s, when Mr. Bounderby burst out of the shrubbery, with such violence as to make his horse shy across the road.
- 1889 December, H Rider Haggard, “ The Baboon-Woman”, in Allan’s Wife and Other Tales, London: Spencer Blackett, , →OCLC, page 121:
  Of course we could only go at a foot pace, so our progress was slow.

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