A few paces off is the grave of Schubert, the composer, whose beautiful songs are heard all over Germany.

A few hundred paces distant from the bungalow is the palace of the resident; it is a building of very great beauty, constructed of large, square stones, in a pure Italian style of architecture.

It is quite another matter on land, where his best pace is a waddle and a shuffle; but his life is in the wide sea, where he can feed and sleep as easily as other mammals can on land.

The outer gateway stands between two fine old towers, with time-worn heads; twelve paces within it is a second gate, which is machicolated, and has a portcullis; and, within this, on the left hand, on a lofty point of rock, is a very ancient round tower of great strength; commanding a pass subject to every annoyance from the besieged.

And when he thinks, his pace is slack; Now, though he knows poor Johnny well, Yet, for his life, he cannot tell 115 What he has got upon his back.

A few paces down the Evercreech road is one of the large tithe barns once belonging to the Abbey of Glastonbury (cp. Pilton).

In truth, seven or eight paces before us was a barricade entirely constructed of paving-stones, not exceeding a man's height, and which in the darkness appeared like a ruined wall.

"A few paces distant is another corpse, with its hands thrown upward in the position the soldier occupied when he received his fatal wound.

Pace is, on many occasions, a favourite of Shakespeare.

His prayer is conceited, and no man remembers his college more at large, The pace of his sermon is a full career, and he runs wildly over hill and dale, till the clock stop him.

I have tryed sufficient All your young Phillies, I think this back has try'd 'em, And smarted for it too: they run away with me, Take bitt between the teeth, and play the Devils; A staied pace now becomes my years; a sure one, Where I may sit and crack no girths.

On one side of the water, pace is almost the only object; on the other side, shape and appearance are weighty matters.

A few hundred paces from our resting-place was the entrance of a stupendous mountain-pass.

But half the pack were still going well, though the pace and distance had both been tremendoustwo clear hours now without a check.

The dolcie pianto and eterna pace are the tears and peace of piety.

In front of us were the dogs, and then, a hundred paces beyond them, was a brown wisp of a thing, the fox itself, stretched to the uttermost.

Its ordinary pace was a rather sluggish trot, and in a thickly populated thoroughfare its speed was further reduced by frequent stoppages.

At first a mere walk, the pace gradually quickened, became a canter, a trot.

The pace of the Giraffe is an amble, though when pursued it flies with extreme rapidity, but the small size of its lungs prevents it from supporting a lengthened chase.

"But now two paces of the vilest earth is room enough.

Here was a lawn with a trim gravel walk bordered with roses; while a few paces away was a deserted thicket of sprawling shrubs, elders, and laurels, with a bit of wild rough meadow in the heart of the copse; and here was a sight that nearly brought me to my knees.

Fifty paces away, again, is a wide thoroughfare, perhaps, raging and roaring with traffic from the port.

"Every time we stumble we hear them shouting; every time we blunder against their limits or stretch out to any spacious act.... "Our easy paces are wild flights to them, and all they deem great and wonderful no more than dolls' pyramids to us.

About ten paces to the right of Fernando was Sukey, with his formidable rifle resting in the hollow of his left arm.

Pace is the soul of comedy, and to elaborate lines at the expense of pace is disastrous.