208 Verbs to Use for the Word paces

Has the minister, as a thinker and active force of regeneration, kept pace with this advance?

I pushed the dugout back suddenly, and gave him, as I felt safe again, a double war-whoop that seemed to astonish him, for he quickened his pace mightily, as if quite as glad to part company as I was.

It wasn't until they were in sight of the smoke from the Little Cabin that Mac slackened his pace.

She pulled the old shawl closely round her, and set a brisk pace back to the Sisters' House.

To save myself by flight was impossible, so without hesitation I stepped back about five paces, cocked my gun, drew one of the pistols out of my belt, and holding it in my left hand and the gun in my right, showed myself determined to fight for my life.

The Boy had gone a few paces towards her, and then turned.

Having come forth from the pond on the northern bank, after walking twenty paces, she lifted up her hand, laid hold of a branch of a tree, and, with her face to the east, gave birth to the heir-apparent.

Without looking after her Steinmetz walked on, gradually increasing his pace.

Before we had advanced an hundred paces, I became convinced that it was impossible we should be able to reconnoitre the camp and return to the point from where we had set out without being killed, or, what was worse, taken prisoner, and yet, had I known for a certainty that such fate awaited us, I would not have let Sergeant Corney know of my unwillingness to follow him.

If it was rattled she mended her pace for a block.

How dare ye so think?" cried Beltane, in anger so fierce and sudden that though she fronted him yet smiling, she drew back a pace.

The starosta moved away a pace or two.

You haven't got the constitution to stand her pace.

Anna followed a few paces, and then sat down on the snow to pull up and tie her disorganized leg-gear.

A guard of honor was drawn up and trumpeters blew a fanfare as Marshal Foch, with General Pershing on his right, took position a few paces in front of the guard.

" She had retired one pace as he began advancing, but as the import of what he said became clear to her she was rooted to one position by astonishment.

Some run a hundred paces and then stop; some run fifty paces and stop.

If you can hit the trail in zero weather And laugh at frozen hand, or foot or face; If you can eat your dogs, and still keep moving And beat the rest, and hold the stampede's pace; If you can stake and dig alone, unaided And hold your ground, if needs be with a gun And find the gold and have some lawyer steal it, And lose, and start again, and call it fun.

This time the favourite hour of ten was not early enough for starting, so we were on horseback by 9.15, going very leisurely, being quite undesirous to force the pace, as the day was warm even at that hour.

he asked, retreating a few paces.

Looks as if you were scared for nothing, but I can't see why Barbara didn't beat you at hitting up the pace.

But as he began to hasten his pace, it occurred to her that it was only about half an hour's easy riding to the reservation, and that after leaving there she could easily reach the fort in another half-hour,so easily that there was no need of hurrying Tam as she was doing; and she pulled him up with a "Take it easy, Tam dear."

Slowly, slowly the great, fierce head was drawn low and lower, the foam-flecked jaws gaped wide, but Beltane's grip grew ever the fiercer until, snorting, panting, wild-eyed, the great grey horse faltered in his stride, checked his pace, slipped, stumbled, and so stood quivering in the shade of the tree.

Then he kicked off his web-feet, turned back a few paces uphill, and sat down on a spruce stump, folded his arms, and waited.

So saying, he swung his stout staff over his shoulder and trudged off, measuring his pace with that of the two nags.

208 Verbs to Use for the Word  paces