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Sentences ending with gait

The horse neither turned head nor slackened gait. [11]
No--that was not their gait. [5]
I was the only passenger present who knew this ship's gait. [5]
And my, but it was coming at a lightning gait! [5]
When he had gotten warmed up he had been allowed to choose his own gait. [13]
There was a gale blowing, and both vessels clapped on every stitch of canvas and swept up through the channel and past the fortresses at a magnificent gait. [5]
I got my bag as I went a-groping through the hall, and in about a minute I was out the back way and stretching up the river road at a five-mile gait. [5]
The Cure's admonitions availed nothing, for Fabian would go his gait. [11]
Mrs. Flint spent, and Mr. Flint paid the bills; for the first ten years protestingly, and after that he gave it up and let her go her own gait. [9]
The last one, an honest master weaver, had moved with a very crooked gait. [10]

Short sentences using gait

How self-possessed his gait is. [10]

Sentences containing gait two or more times

He wore a long, double-breasted, claret-colored redingote that fitted his slim figure to perfection, and his gait was the easy gait of a man who goes through the world careless of its pitfalls. [9]

More example sentences with the word gait in them

The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
Now spreading its wings, throwing up its head, or opening its tail like a fan; now strutting about with a hopping gait until tired, when it gabbled some kind of note, and was relieved by another. [1]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
The tune he was whistling, his gait, and the gesture with which he twirled his mustache, all now seemed offensive. [2]
There was my Tophet, and a lean chestnut, with a long propelling gait, and not an ounce of loose skin on him. [11]
He pulled himself together, looked round, screwing up his eyes, glanced at Prince Andrew, and, evidently not recognizing him, moved with his waddling gait to the porch. [2]
But even at this rattling gait I think we changed watches three times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. [5]
You can alter this by muscular power, as you can take hold of the pendulum of a clock and make it move faster or slower; but your ordinary gait is timed by the same mechanism as the movements of the solar system. [6]
It was beyond the proper gait of his appetite by two. [5]
On the road the man pulled his resolution together, and began the march with a steady gait, but there was no eagerness in it. [5]
Ben's gait was the hop-skip-and-jump--proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. [5]
As a result, the city government not only stood still, with its hands tied, but everything it was created to protect and care for went a steady gait toward rack and ruin. [5]
He wrote: "I talked your letter into a fonograf in my usual tone at my usual gait of speech. [5]
And as he stood apart there, receiving this homage in rags, I thought to myself, well, really there is something peculiarly grand about the gait and bearing of a king, after all. [5]
Mr. Duncan muttered something, and quickened his gait a little on the steps that led to the gallery. [9]
Venters marked the smooth gait, and understood it when Wrangle galloped out of the sage into the broad cattle trail, down which Venters had once tracked Jane Withersteen's red herd. [13]
She noticed a slight limp in his gait and a convulsive twitching of his eyelids; his slender, almost transparent hand, she reflected, was that of a sick man, and pain and fever, no doubt, had thinned his hair, which had left many places bald. [10]
We jogged along, six in the party, at a moderate and comfortable gait, and in conversation learned that my lord Grip was a very great personage in his own region, which lay a day's journey beyond Cambenet. [5]
This time you should have seen him come!--it was a business trip, sure; by his gait there was blood in his eye. [5]
As for Antoinette, she glanced neither right nor left through her veil, but rode unmindful of the way, heedless of heat and discomfort, erect, motionless save for the easy gait of her horse. [9]
He had a shambling, loose-jointed gait, not unlike that of the bear: his short legs bowed out, as if they had been more in the habit of climbing trees than of walking. [4]
I wish Tom Scott could get his hands on this torpid old slab once--you'd see it take a different gait from this. [5]
Thus the gorilla runs with a sidelong shambling gait, but more commonly progresses by resting on its bent hands. [1]
The third day's reports showed that if he kept up his gait he would arrive by four in the afternoon. [5]
But a tortoise, pursuing his ordinary gait without a wager, moves eleven hundred times slower than an express train. [4]
With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round-shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest. [2]
He finally struck out over the mountains, at a gait which we estimated at about two hundred and fifty miles an hour, and he is going yet. [5]
When Kutuzov came out of the study and with lowered head was crossing the ballroom with his heavy waddling gait, he was arrested by someone's voice saying: "Your Serene Highness! [2]
Yet many an one admired the stalwart gait of the old man in his heavy harness. [10]
Alpatych, mastering his offended feelings, kept pace with Rostov at a gliding gait and continued to impart his views. [2]
He said lots of wild things, and, among others, he said he would keep up this hundred-mile gait till the middle of to-morrow afternoon, and then he'd land in London. [5]
Teachers and students of theology get a certain look, certain conventional tones of voice, a clerical gait, a professional neckcloth, and habits of mind as professional as their externals. [6]
The shuffling gait of the gigantic, unwieldy man, who had grown gray stooping over his work, had gained a certain majestic dignity. [10]
Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back a twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin' do in his own especial line--no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself. [5]
They imitate his metrical forms as a mimic copies the gait of the person he is representing. [6]
If that thing is going to arrive, it is inferable that He wants it to arrive; and so it is not quite kind of you, and it hurts me, to see you flinging sarcasms at the gait of it. [5]
This last stage is eleven miles, through a pleasanter country, and we make it in a trifle over an hour, going at an exhilarating gait, that raises our spirits out of the Marshy Hope level. [4]
He was surer-footed in a run than at any other fast gait, and his running gave the impression of something devilish. [13]
As an orderly Ibrahim was like a clock: stiff in his gait as a pendulum, regular as a minute. [11]
This characteristic marked him in all things, even in his outward demeanor; in the sound of his voice, in his broad features, in the swaggering gait of his stumpy figure. [10]
And yet--and yet Hilary inspires some feeling when, with stooping gait, he traverses the hall, and there is a hush in many quarters as delegates and spectators watch his progress to the little room off the platform: the general's room, as the initiated know. [9]
As soon as he was snoring a good regular gait that was likely to last, and had his chin on his breast and looked permanent, Hal Clayton nodded towards the di'monds and then towards the outside door, and I understood. [5]
By his look, he was good-natured; by his gait, he was satisfied with himself. [5]
There was no great change in his health, but he complained of indescribable sensations in his nervous system, and felt as if losing the whole power of walking, but this was not obvious in his gait, although he walked shorter distances than before. [6]
This is a good place for it: roots and stony ground to break up your stately gait, a region not liable to interruption, only one field and one hut in sight, and they so far away that nobody could see us from there. [5]
We couldn't ever git away from them at this gait, and I couldn't hold on forever. [5]
An unsteadiness of gait was obvious in some of the feasters. [6]
Mr. Whitredge started for the Pelican, not at his ordinary senatorial gait, to get Mr. Flint on the telephone. [9]
It was a fierce and furious gallop--and the gait never altered for a moment till we reeled off ten or twelve miles and swept up to the next collection of little station-huts and stables. [5]
Heedless of the dust, he strode down the road with the awkward gait that was all his own, kicking up his heels behind. [9]
The first few days we came at a whooping gait being in the latitude of the "North-east trades," but we soon ran out of them. [5]
I knew the cow, having often had her in my garden; knew her gait and the size of her feet, which struck me as a little large for the size of the body. [4]
She feels her color mounting, even as her resentment rises at his self-possession, and yet she would have despised him had he shown self-consciousness in gait or manner in the sight of her assembled guests. [9]
The attack was attended with some hemiplegic weakness on the right side, and altered sensation, and ever after there was a want of freedom and ease both in the gait and in the use of the arm of that side. [6]
I passed them at a rattling gait, and as I went by I flung out a hair-lifting soul-scorching thirteen-jointed insult which made the king's effort poor and cheap by comparison. [5]
We tore along at a good gait, and soon left the sounds far behind and modified to a murmur. [5]
Bearing Washington Hawkins and his fortunes, the stage-coach tore out of Swansea at a fearful gait, with horn tooting gaily and half the town admiring from doors and windows. [5]
In manner, gait and height this pair looked like two superior beings, destined for each other by Fate; Katharina herself could not but confess it. [10]
His gait was always measured; but if he had had good news to bring, he would have approached more rapidly. [10]
The stage whirled along at a spanking gait, the breeze flapping curtains and suspended coats in a most exhilarating way; the cradle swayed and swung luxuriously, the pattering of the horses' hoofs, the cracking of the driver's whip, and his "Hi-yi! [5]
We went along a steady gait, but not very fast, and the fog got solider and solider, so solid that Jim looked dim and ragged and smoky through it. [5]
We rode on--such a ride, the horses neck and neck, their hoofs pounding the prairie like drills, rawbone to rawbone, a hell-to-split gait. [11]
They ciphered out a glacier's gait, and then said confidently that it would travel just so far in so many years. [5]
Not long ago a fellow came along with a rolling gait and a distressed face. [5]

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