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The boy approached silently and with lagging gait, sure signs that fortune had not been kind to him.
"Cora, when you liked me you went a pretty clipping gait with me," he said, trembling even more than before.
His head was lifted, and he began to walk down the trail at a gait full of decision and purpose.
"You bet, Pat; and keeping the gait he could take a shoe off her horse, if she wanted it done."
He strode back to the remnant of his tribe with a peculiar gait that even he had not often practiced.
Beginning at a walk, he increased his gait to a trot, and then at full speed rushed at the enemy.
By this time he was nervous and began looking backwards as he whipped the ponies up at a lively gait.
What, who was that coming slowly and with limping, halting gait to meet her from the other direction?
In the course of a quarter of an hour, too, one is obliged to alter his gait at least a dozen times.
Through the dim night the lame lad noticed that Caleb's gait was different from that of the others.
His gait was always measured; but if he had had good news to bring, he would have approached more rapidly.
In spite of our resolutions, the proximity of a city had the usual effect of increasing our ordinarily leisurely gait.
To judge by his flushed face and his not altogether steady gait, the whistle had been wetted already.
He was a finely-built man, with "the gait and appearance of a cavalry soldier," according to the official prison description.
In the gaits of those advertised, fifteen both paced and trotted, nine trotted only, and seven paced only.
When Buffalo Bill drew near the cabin door something in his gait appeared to excite the suspicion of the guard.
The third day's reports showed that if he kept up his gait he would arrive by four in the afternoon.
"Your acquaintance of the halting gait and high shoulder may or might have some hand in the affair," he finished.
If they had watched him they would have seen him change his lounging gait when he reached the corner.
Yet there were no tokens that his physical strength might not have sufficed for a free and determined gait.
Redmond could not refrain an explosive, snorting chuckle as he remarked the erratic gait of the slowly approaching pedestrian.
It might have been so in this case, though Wharton's voice and gait had not been those of a drunken man.
Nevertheless, his gait was stately, and his movements were slow, as he gravely mounted the horse and rode away.
There is a majesty in his gait, as though he is either great himself, or is employed by one who is.
The Camel is called the ship of the desert because its gait is said to resemble the motion of a ship.
Asked the foreman, slightly checking his horse to accommodate its pace to the slower gait of the professor's animal.
"Well, my boy, we won't get far toward shore at this gait," said Job cheerfully as Jeremy came up.
As soon as he observed Loveday and Anne, he fell into a feebler gait; when they came up he recognized Anne.
Mother Earth is still spinning through space at the gait originally imparted to her by the sun's superior force.
Tom Lubber, it begins to look as if you and I were bound for Davy Jones's Locker at a twenty-knot gait.
And, though he still halted in his gait, he could take the hills in his stride with any man.
She had the light and steadfast gait of one to whom exercise is as essential as food, and more easily attained.
Her light, tripping gait had become a dragging of the feet, while I divined that she was still pondering.
The gait is energetic but not fast, each step being flat, with the foot firmly planted on the ground.
Henry Fowler came out of the stables with heavy gait, and face from which the genial curves had fled.
The figures and gait of the men were young, but there was little youth in most of their faces.
The two deputies had hastened their gait, but were occasionally obliged to stand still because of the fashionable carriages.
Asquith noticed that her walk might have been graceful, had she not affected a sort of indifference in gait.
After eight or ten minutes she grew much more uncertain in gait, and paused as though she would fall.
All looked and beheld a tall, imperious-looking lady, garbed in eccentric fashion, stalking toward them at a rapid gait.
The rider, if in the flat saddle, except at slow gaits, should rise to the trot during this exercise.
An active boy of his age finds his most natural gait to be a trot, and Fred took up that pace.
It is a large heavy animal, with a short head, sharp claws, long thick fur, and a clumsy gait.
There was the gait of conscious freedom in his step, the freedom regained by a convict after long imprisonment.
"Oh, well, if you're going to take no one's advice but your own, I suppose you must gang your own gait!"
I noticed that it had a peculiar gait, and stopping at the blacksmith's, called him to examine the running gear.
I noticed that my uncle and several elderly gentlemen stuck to the road and kept at a more moderate gait.
Peter suddenly came back to affairs earthly to find Mutineer just settling into a gait not permitted by Park regulations.
And the marvel is that this model influences not only the tone, but the whole carriage and gait.
His neck was as thick as that of a bull, and his eyes, gait, and voice were like the bull's!
When his station and gait were both improved, he was permitted to walk, always with care not to fatigue himself.
He halted a couple of yards from them, and Chris saw that his face was as assured as his gait.
He shouted to his team and cracked his whip, and off they went along the road at a good gait.
He was headed due west, and he must have reached the coast the next day, the gait he was travelling.
"If only they are soon landed," groaned madam, and we set off at our best gait to find the cases.
As he walked he seemed to carry his nose in the air, with a gait different from what was usual to him.
Large bronze and yellow beetles walk through the short grass with the coolness and gait of domestic poultry.
John Gait, who wrote from the artist's own statements, describes the effect of this gift upon the boy.
I decided upon the costume of a Pierrot, because it conceals the form and the gait better than any other.
If you're designing a camera system that detects individual gaits, you'd better plan for people putting rocks in their shoes.
The elder one was tall and thin, and had his father's lounging gait and small, outward turned feet.
Her gait was as light, and she ran forward as quickly as if she were moved by some mysterious power.
The expression of his eye, the cast of his countenance, his use of words, and his very gait were changed.
She yielded up the case obediently and, having verified the time, proceeded towards the platform at a more reasonable gait.
A stout, clumsy man had come lumbering around the corner at his best gait, in a frantic state of excitement.
The arm and the leg on the same side move simultaneously, which gives the animal a curious and awkward gait.
He called gently, and began hiking at a fast gait up the road toward the little village of Apple Hill.
Never to see him come down your path with his bustling gait; never to hear the laughter of the man.
He walked behind two girls, who must have been pigeon-toed, so much did their gait resemble that of the goose.
His limbs and feet were as good as ever were made, but his great redeeming quality was his trotting gait.
From time to time, as he drove, he rose up and looked over the dashboard to study the gait of the horse.
His short figure, though bent a little with years, was still vigorous, and his gait quick and bustling.
He even understood that his giant gait and movements were small outer evidences of this inner fact, wholly in keeping.
If I keep on at this gait, I won't have face enough to say good morning, let alone what I want to do.
This gait, so different from the steady and noble step of the men, marks the inferior position they occupy.
He adopted a rolling gait and the frown of a pirate; he swore naval oaths strong enough to still a hurricane.
She walked with unusual rapidity for a woman, climbing the path without relaxing her gait or losing her breath.
They put spurs to their horses and the noble brutes started down the river road at a fast gait.
Their gait is therefore rolling, and the rider sits as in a small boat pitching and tossing in a broken sea.
Others strode back and forth with that majestic gait for which the forest Indian has been so much celebrated.
He could see of her nothing save her back that and a certain quality of carriage, a gait measured and deliberate.
And Michael snatched up his hat and Cyril's, and hurried after him as fast as his halting gait permitted.
He walked with a slow, rolling gait, indeed, moved slowly in all ways; he always had an air of infinite leisure.
This gait, so different from the steady and noble step of the men, marks the inferior position they occupy.
His figure and gait were wonderfully majestic, and as he came near, he saluted the king in stately and courteous words.
His very gait betrayed the sneak, and I followed him, forgetting my pipe and keeping to the soft grass.
Apart from the agreeable and useful side of the true rack as a gait, it has not a few further advantages.
Then have some good swimmer, on horseback, take the lead; push your stock to a lively gait, and success is assured.
Had they not a perfect unanimous knowledge, for many years, of his face, his unique gait, his uncommon stature?
They had gone along at a steady, but not fast, gait, and had come up together as if at a signal.
Suddenly they came on the mice, with mailed backs and crooked claws, with limping gait, and mouths like shears.
Look at his chest, not too wide to make him paddle in his gait, nor too narrow to limit his wind.
Many stopped to gaze after them as they strode along, so broad were their shoulders and so sturdy their gait.
Darkness was falling rapidly, but she could distinguish his small figure against the snow, and his halting gait.
Charlie went on ahead, and we drove along at the regular gait which was not very fast about these times.
I did not see his face distinctly, but recognized him by his size and form, and peculiar air and gait.
Marietta looked after him, watching his halting gait, and the little effort he made with his stick at each step.
And the figure of the old sailor turned and, with a rolling gait, he started across the big studio room.
It seemed now so sure of its end, so strong and easy in its gait, like a grown man full of determination.
With the gait of a sleep-walker, she continued on her way, until suddenly a voice addressing her jerked her broad-awake.