And with a swaying step she departed--a step so short as almost to convey the impression that her legs were bound together. Yet while the gait was the gait of a person full of suppressed fury, it was also the gait of a person who can scarcely see an inch in advance.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
Newe get: new gait, or fashion; "gait" is still used in this sense in some parts of the country.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
The Knight of the Cumberland, after a moment's hesitation, threw his leg over the saddle and came to the steps with a slouching gait and looking about him right and left. The Blight, blushing prettily, took the chaplet and went down the steps to meet him.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"That speech should give you an idea of the man. The Sieur Croizeau happens to belong to a particular class of old man which should be known as 'Coquerels' since Henri Monnier's time; so well did Monnier render the piping voice, the little mannerisms, little queue, little sprinkling of powder, little movements of the head, prim little manner, and tripping gait in the part of Coquerel in /La Famille Improvisee/. This Croizeau used to hand over his halfpence with a flourish and a 'There, fair lady!'英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
He naturally said Chicago. In the long color- less days it had been in Chicago that all those endlessly repeated scenes had been laid. Walking up the street now with that wavering ineffectual gait, these scenes came back to surge in his brain like waters cease- lessly tossed in a wind-swept basin.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Swung over his shoulder was a stick he had used to assist his limping gait, but now transformed into the beloved axe. He would reach the clearing soon, he thought, and strode on like a giant, while people hur- ried from his path. Suddenly a smooth trunk, stripped of its bark and bleached by weather, arose before him.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
The judge is examlnlng the dog's gait one more time before he makes his declslon...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》