trail-stride

Updated: May 6, 2025

But I bet you the drinks, Smoke, if you an' me flop around the corner quick, like we was goin' somewheres, an' then turn back from around the next corner, that we run into him a-hikin' hell-bent." They tried the trick, and, doubling back around the second corner, encountered Saltman swinging a long trail-stride in pursuit. "Hello, Bill," Smoke greeted. "Which way?" "Hello.

Jack London - Smoke Bellew

Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.

Jack London - Burning Daylight