Gait

Examples

• She's doing all she can--she's going her best gait, but it won't save her. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The very port and gait of a swan, or turkey, or peacock show the high idea he has entertained of himself, and his contempt of all others. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As she walked beside Archer with her long swinging gait her face wore the vacant serenity of a young marble athlete. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His stature was tall, and his gait, undepressed by age and toil, was erect and stately. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her figure was slight, and rather above the average height--her gait and actions free from the slightest approach to extravagance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was not Lily's fault if Mrs. Dorset's complicated attitudes did not fall in with the Duchess's easy gait. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have already put off the carelessness of childhood, the unlined brow, and springy gait of early years, that they may adorn thee. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The lion also had quickened his gait, and was doggedly maintaining an unvarying distance behind them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She has a halt in her gait, red hair, and a trifling obliquity of vision. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is from this circumstance that a Philadelphian may be known anywhere by his gait. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Her vivacity, so long assumed, her affectionate display of cheerfulness, her light-hearted tone and springy gait were gone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And I like them blond, with a certain gait, and a swan neck. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Mason