... rejoined the younger stranger; "and not the less willingly from the brisk pace you walk. I thought I had few equals in pedestrianism; but it should not be for a small wager that I would undertake to keep ... — The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Kanaka mother. Her feat of pedestrianism. Stabbing of a Spaniard by an American. The result of a request to pay a debt. Nothing done and but little said about the atrocity. Foreigners barred from working at Rich Bar. Spaniards thereupon move to Indian ... — The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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