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"Pacing" Quotes from Famous Books

... her up-stairs, and showed her from the back window her husband pacing the yard, waiting for patients. Lady Cicely folded her arms, and contemplated him at first with a sort of zoological curiosity. Gentleman pacing back yard, like hyena, ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... investigation, since the roar of the explosion told him everything—one of the men, perhaps, who had waited on the quay. And Delcasse, biting his nails, his face wet with perspiration, pictured to himself the Emperor also waiting, pacing restlessly back and forth, until the word should come! He gnashed his teeth with rage, this good Frenchman, and shook trembling fists up into the darkness. Ah, Germany ...

— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... they went their way into the forest, the knight riding upon his charger, and Tuck pacing along demurely by ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... enquired Saunders, who had been pacing the quarter-deck with slow giant strides, arguing mentally with himself in ...

— The World of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... farther off than I calculated, and I was beginning to fear I had lost my way, when all at once a great wall loomed in front of me, and I could just make out the figure of the sentry pacing up and down. I hailed him, and ordered him to ask the sergeant of the guard to summon the officer on duty. When the latter appeared, I explained to him my object in coming, and begged him to have the ammunition boxes ready for lading by the time I returned with the camels. ...

— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts

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