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That the Laureate was heavy-gaited in composition, taking five years to finish one comedy, that he was, on the other hand, too swift, trusting Nature rather than elaborate Art, that he was dull and unimaginative, that he was keen and remarkably sharp-witted, that he affected a profundity of learning of which he gave no evidences, that his plays were only less numerous than Dryden's, are other particulars we gather from conflicting witnesses of the period.
Not until another year had gone, with its heavy-gaited school-months and its galloping vacation-days, did the little boy come to understand that Santa Claus was not a real presence.
His deceptively mild eyes were hard flames now. His face was set in great strong ridges. Hilary had never seen him this way before. "I'll rip every Mercutian to pieces with my bare hands shred him into little bits." He meant it too. Hilary shuddered. Far off down the wide thoroughfare came the glint of weapons, the sight of massed ranks. A Mercutian patrol was shambling along, heavy-gaited.
The "heavy-gaited toad," satisfied with sour ants, hard beetles, and such other fare as it can easily pick up, and grown nasty in consequence, so that nothing seeks to eat it, has hobbled through life, like a plethoric old gentleman, until the present day, on its original feet.
It was easy to see that fear and dissension prevailed among them; some of the men but these, with one exception, were bachelors looked wistfully upon us as we rode lightly and swiftly past, and then impatiently at their own lumbering wagons and heavy-gaited oxen. Others were unwilling to advance at all until the party they had left behind should have rejoined them.
The freezing storm soon penetrated to the skin, but the uneasy trot of our heavy-gaited horses kept us warm enough, as we forced them unwillingly in the teeth of the sleet and rain, by the powerful suasion of our Indian whips. The prairie in this place was hard and level.
Sometimes they met companies of haggard, heavy-gaited men and women half blind with small-pox the mothers carrying on their backs infants as loathsome as themselves. Near every kraal stood detached huts built for the diseased to die in. They passed from this God-forsaken land to a district of springs welling with sweet water, calabashes and tamarinds, and circlets of deep, dew-fed verdure.