à pied
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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Thus equipped, my friend and I set out à pied, followed by a couple of stout deer-hounds.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
When to these are added the gendarmes à pied and à cheval, who are constantly in motion, one sees that the risk of breaking the laws is attended with more hazard here than with us.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Once à pied he would be at their mercy, since he was now altogether unarmed.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
A gendarme à pied was the only person near me, and I asked him, if he could explain the reason of the movement.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
I have just gone through a great deal of anguish on account of my oldest son, who, as I told you, left the cavalry to enter the chasseurs à pied at his request.
From The Living Present by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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