Use pace in a sentence
Sentences ending with pace
- Like a wanderer, who, after a long journey, sees his home in the distance, he quickened his pace. [10]
- I knew not where I was, nor how long I had been walking the streets at a furious pace. [9]
- The swarthy bearers were far too slow for his longing, and more than once he flung to them as much money as they were wont to earn in a week, to urge them to a brisker pace. [10]
- He had to wait an hour for a train, and when it did start it seemed to go at a snail's pace. [5]
- Now they were voices of warning and taunting; and instead of going rapidly the train seemed to crawl at a snail's pace. [5]
- The moon was under a cloud at the moment, and he could only observe that the horse and his rider looked like a single dark object, and that they were moving along at an easy pace. [6]
- The horses quickened their pace. [11]
- We'll let them set the pace. [13]
- He did not quicken his pace. [11]
- His seat was placed on a platform, magnificently decorated with bunches and garlands of flowers, and covered with hangings of purple and gold brocade, which concealed the priests who bore it along with a slow and even pace. [10]
Short sentences using pace
- It was an awful pace. [5]
- In Pace! [6]
More example sentences with the word pace in them
- For a few yards Silver Tassel was going strong, then his pace slackened, he seemed to sink lower in the water, and his stroke became splashing and irregular. [11]
- Both men, therefore, went down to the square, though the crowds seeking the temple and thronging the space before Didymus's house made it more and more difficult to pace to and fro. [10]
- The number of victims swelled daily, and the approach of the comet kept pace with the growing misery of the town. [10]
- The mainsail closed up several points, the Ninety-Nine slackened her pace and edged in closer to the land. [11]
- As she was too poor to have any fear of them, she did not alter her course (which, indeed, she could not have done without going a long way round), but quickened her pace a little, and kept straight on. [12]
- And, tho' ashamed to speak of it, I told him of Stanwix's prophecy that I should pace the decks of a man-o'-war. [9]
- He then began to pace the room in deep thought, often going to the opening which served as a window, to cool his burning forehead and see if dawn were near. [10]
- By-and-by he began to pace the floor and mutter. [5]
- Wrangle thundered on to change his pace with a violent break. [13]
- There was no time to turn the bridge back, and there was no time for Shangois to stop the headlong pace of the mare. [11]
- Mazarine drove fast through the town, as though eager to put it behind him, but when he reached the trail on the prairie he slackened his pace, and drove steadily homewards, lost in the darkest reflections he had ever known; and that was saying much. [11]
- Luna first saw them pace silently to and fro, and delighted in the resentful glances they cast at each other. [10]
- He to pace the world beside this fine queenly creature--Delia Gasgoyne--carrying on the traditions of the Belwards! [11]
- As he entered the village his pace slackened. [11]
- For a while the tune held its mad pace, and ended with a shriek and a snap on a high note, for Zeron had broken a string. [9]
- As he approached the temple he heard himself called, and checked the pace of his horses. [10]
- When he reached the great market-place in the quarter known as Ta-anch he was forced to bring his steed to a quieter pace, for in front of the Curia--the senatehouse--an immense gathering of people had collected. [10]
- The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he approached. [2]
- Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? [4]
- Mary soon saw that no one but Katharina was in pursuit; she moderated her pace, and awaited her cast-off friend under the shade of a tall shrub. [10]
- The wonder is that a new book does not sell more largely, or it would be a wonder if the ability to buy kept pace with the ability to read, and if discrimination had accompanied the appetite for reading. [4]
- Dr. Brooke had taken matters in his own hands and ordered an absolute rest, after dwelling at some length on the vicious pace set by modern business and the lack of consideration and knowledge shown by men of affairs for their bodies. [9]
- The shaft horse swung steadily beneath the bow over its head, with no thought of slackening pace and ready to put on speed when required. [2]
- I began to suspect the game; which was, to twist my head off.--When he had reduced the radius of his circle to about twenty-five feet, he struck a tremendous pace through the water. [4]
- Their interest grew stronger, and their industry kept pace with it. [5]
- And now the stranger stepped back one pace, took off his soldier-cap, tossed it into the wing, and began to speak, with deliberation, nobody listening, everybody laughing and whispering. [5]
- On the wide, straight stretches it went at a mad pace that took her breath, and again, in turning a corner or passing another car, it slowed down, purring in meek obedience. [9]
- Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes. [13]
- Towns and settlements sprang up in a season and flourished, and a man could scarce keep pace with the growth of them. [9]
- We durst not slacken pace that night, and by morning, much exhausted, we deemed ourselves safe, and rested for a while, making a hearty breakfast, though a sombre shadow had settled on the face of the good Chevalier. [11]
- But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutuzov. [2]
- Napoleon shrugged his shoulders and continued to pace up and down without replying. [2]
- For some time she went on side by side with this messenger, but soon she found that she could not keep up with his hurried pace, and had to fall behind. [10]
- He waited till she sprang into her waggon, after the Healer had mounted his mule and ridden away with ever-quickening pace into the prairie. [11]
- But I reckon she is pretty old, and old people don't often outlive the cautious pace of the professional detective when he has got his clues together and is out on his still-hunt. [5]
- A mortal disease sets in, which keeps pace with the shrinking skin, and his life and his talisman come to an end together. [6]
- Pandion holds the reins with elegant composure, and urges the horses to a frantic pace by a mere whistle, without ever using the whip. [10]
- Hardly had they reached the bottom of the hill before their pace instinctively changed to a gallop, which grew faster and faster as they drew nearer to our Uhlans and the French dragoons who galloped after them. [2]
- But nothing they prophesy, Davy, keeps pace with his resolve. [11]
- As they were pretty certain of the road he must have taken, however, and kept on at a great pace, they came up with him, at the very moment when he had taken breath, and was breaking into a run again. [12]
- His rapid pace presently brought him into one of the great avenues leading to Harlem. [4]
- Certain words and phrases he had spoken rang in her head, and like martial music kept pace with her steps. [9]
- The old man paused a moment while it was gently closed and fastened on the inside, and satisfied that this was done, walked on at a slow pace. [12]
- The old woman, panting for breath, was obliged to beg her to consider her sixty years and moderate her pace. [10]
- Ulrich checked his pace, and gnashing his teeth, exclaimed: "Will not? [10]
- I will keep pace with you, and you shall feel my presence with you as that of a self-conscious being like yourself. [6]
- His blood kept pace with the mare's footsteps, but he did not reply. [9]
- Art also keeps pace with luxury, and shows abundant life and promise for the future. [4]
- She continued to pace up and down until she was quite tired, and then fell asleep on a chair near the door. [12]
- We slackened our pace to let them come up, and in the meantime I got out my cargo of grapes and dropped them firmly but reluctantly into the shadows by the wayside. [5]
- He began to pace the veranda, fiercely. [9]
- I began to pace the room. [9]
- I began to pace the room again, as was my habit when overwrought. [9]
- We modified our pace now, and moved cautiously, and the new men were warned to keep their sorrows to themselves and not get the command into danger with their curses and lamentations. [5]
- But the fearful pace at which she had just been going told on her. [4]
- Been hitting the pace a little too hard, I guess. [9]
- When they came out onto the beaten highroad--polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight--the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace. [2]
- The minutes dragged on at a snail's pace while the lanterns on the lindens and poles, the torches, and pitch pans were lighted. [10]
- He had them on a dead run, but not yet at the last strained and killing pace. [13]
- The flavor of Old Virginia is unmistakable, and life drops into an easy-going pace under this influence. [4]
- Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern. [12]
- Alpatych, mastering his offended feelings, kept pace with Rostov at a gliding gait and continued to impart his views. [2]
- But the quickness of the wolf's lope and the borzoi's slower pace made it plain that Karay had miscalculated. [2]
- In his associations of the past year his spendthrift habits had increased, and he had been humiliated by his inability to keep pace with the prodigality of those with whom he was most intimate. [4]
- The doubtful means of making money, the pace of fashionable life, the wasteful prodigality of the time, we instinctively shrank from speaking of before Margaret. [4]
- He was convinced of it, when he saw Grier suddenly spring up, and pace the room again like a tortured animal. [11]
- Thereupon several rolls of gold solidi were paid to the astonished student--and they had been of little real benefit, since they had made it possible for him to keep pace with his wealthy and aristocratic classmates and share many of their extravagances. [10]
- Such a storm of feelings, thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the room with rapid steps. [2]
- For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace, clearing the moose-bushes with bound after bound, flying over the fallen logs, pausing neither for brook nor ravine. [4]
- They trudged onward now, at a quicker pace, resolving to keep the main road, and go wherever it might lead them. [12]
- For it was not given to him to say what he felt; but as I hurried to keep pace with his stride, Polly Ann's words rang in my ears, "Davy, take care of my Tom," and I knew that he, too, was thinking of her. [9]
- But there is no stopping then, for the old gentleman speaks stoutly to him, the horses mend their pace, and they are already at the garden-gate. [12]
- Night brought him no sleep, and he left his couch before morning dawned, to pace restlessly to and fro, or gaze at Bessie, who to him alone still tried to show recognition by a faint smile. [10]
- As they had no resource, however, but to go forward, they still kept on, though at a much slower pace, being very weary and fatigued. [12]
- In truth, I never got to Turner's at all, for I met him coming back at the wind's pace, a huge, swarthy, determined man at his side and four others spurring after, the spume dripping from the horses' mouths. [9]
- It doesn't bother me, but some of my old neighbors are just ruining themselves trying to keep the pace. [4]
- Some foreboding beset me, and I was once close to a full mind for going back, and slacked Cynthia's pace to a trot. [9]
- It was a lively young animal enough, and was easily roused to a pretty fast pace. [6]
- He missed the light footfall overhead to which he had been accustomed for these two years past; but she who was wont to pace the floor above half the night through had not gone to rest as he supposed. [10]
- To put a large bill in the plate on Sunday, to open her purse wide for the objects of charity and relief daily presented, was indeed a privilege and a pleasure, and a satisfaction to the conscience which occasionally tripped her in her rapid pace. [4]
- Where intellectual life keeps pace with the accumulation of wealth, society is likely to be more natural, simpler, less tied to artificial rules, than where wealth runs ahead. [4]
- That accounts for it," he went on, rather to himself than to Victoria, and he began to pace the room once more; "he looked like a sick man when he was here. [9]
- Brown trotted after it, saying, "Whoa, whoa, there's a good fellow;" but whenever he got near enough to chance a jump for the buggy, the horse quickened its pace a little and defeated him. [5]
- And now she is such a splendid woman, it is difficult for the rest of us to keep pace with her. [4]
- The horse swerved into it, not slacking its pace, and in the fraction of a minute came to the farmyard. [11]
- Alpatych entered the innyard at a quicker pace than usual and went straight to the shed where his horses and trap were. [2]
- The pace was incredible for a mile, and though General Armour rode well, he was far behind. [11]
- The storm was increasing, and the wind cutting, but I dug into Cynthia so that poor Hugo was put to it to hold the pace, and, tho' he had a pint of rum in him, was near perished with the cold. [9]
- Stephen kept pace in silence with Mr. Lincoln's strides, another shock in store for him. [9]
- Rostov put his horse to full gallop to get out of the way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the horses were already galloping. [2]
- He say a horse like that is nothing: no pace, no travel. [11]
- The pitiful and hopeless part of it is that if she had been in sympathy with them, Jack would have gone on in his frivolous career at an accelerated pace. [4]
- Then he went home at a rapid pace, for he longed to tell Barbara how fair a prospect for their future was opening before him. [10]
- What had reconciled Hodder to the enterprise most of all, however, was the chapel --in the plan a beautiful Gothic church--whereby he hoped to make the religious progress keep pace with the social. [9]
- Love had steeled his will and quickened the pace of his steed, and the gratitude of answering affection, the reward she could bestow, should be withheld no longer. [10]
- Hank Monk cracked his whip and started off at an awful pace. [5]
- Every man going his own pace, seeking to gratify his own aims and desires, unconscious and heedless of the want with which he rubs elbows. [9]
- Mr. Flint snapped his fingers, and turned and began to pace the room. [9]
- Lassiter dismounted, led his burro, called the dogs close, and proceeded at snail pace through dark masses of rock and dense thickets under the left wall. [13]
- Necessarily, as heretofore, Henderson was often absent, and whether Margaret accompanied him or not, a certain pace of life had to be kept up. [4]
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