"The first two years are hardest because it takes all that time for a fellow to get himself keyed up to the gait of study that is required in the government academies.

All gay and festive cusses caught driving faster than ordinary gait in the city, will be brought before Judge Vaughan, for instancethe fine is $20.

Diablo meekly lowered his head and made his step mincing to regulate his gait to that of his tiny master.

She walked up that busy thoroughfare at the same quick gait for some minutes, then turned into a narrow street and, with another suspicious look around her, stopped at the doorway of a small shop a short distance down.

So, also, the appearance of the tracks will at once show him the gait at which the party were travelling, and he thus knows how to regulate his pace so as to overtake them.

He walked, as the French say, on air, and he certainly swaggered in his gait on that thin base.

In a room they seem to roll about, as it were, but when they walk to any distance, they proceed straight forward with a gait like other people.

Yes, with a good horse it is as delightful as sitting in a rocking-chair, but, if you were a rider of experience, you would not allow your horse to enter upon the gait without permission, but would bring him back to the trot by slightly pulling first the left rein and then the right, a movement which is called sawing the mouth.

He is our sad philosopher, who has just as dependable a gait as P.D. I have many theories about the psychology of his ego.

A very little alteration in feature might have made a plain face into a beautiful one; and some slight change in the position or the contractibility of certain of the muscles might have made the most awkward of manners and gaits into the most dignified and graceful.

He alters his gait with the times, and has not a motion of his body that (like a dottrel) he does not borrow from somebody else.

Kansas Shorty, supported in his unsteady gait by two brethren of the Army, walked in the midst of the procession, while Joe kept some distance in the rear, never permitting his eyes to stray off the shambling form of the man who held the key to the riddle that had so effectively spoiled Joe's joy of life.

Even when he got far south, among the Florida keys, and saw the legions of the heron and the ibis stalking with stately gait along the wet sand, and every now and then thrusting in their "javelin bills," spiking and bringing out long wriggling flashes of silver that went alive down their throats, he would still be thinking it over.

The effects of the relief from pain are also most marked, not only in the altered gait out of doors, but also in the stable.

And then her heart suddenly stood still, for away in the distance, walking with his light, swinging gait over the moonlit sward, she saw Nap.

"With two such sprinters as 'Pete' Van Degen and Dicky Bowles to set the pace, it's no wonder the New York set in Paris has struck a livelier gait than ever this spring.

So Sir Ector made him ready with all despatch, and rode away at a great gait after Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel.

The beast picked itself up with some dignity and affecting an air of extreme nonchalance, as if he had just remembered an important engagement, started at a mixed gait toward the front door.

" With these words she turned round very quietly, walked with a shuffling gait towards the door, and disappeared.

First come three led horses, of the noblest Arabian bloodglorious creatures, worthy to represent "The horse that guide the golden eye of heaven, And snort the morning from their nostrils, Making their fiery gait above the glades.

Assuming an easy gait within its powers of endurance, a pony of the prairie will keep it up almost indefinitely.

Forward we went at a swinging gait down the road through the dust.