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3 total sentences available.
Which loue you must know was ingendered in the sweet soile of Fraunce, where I piaffed like a bon companion, with a steele at my girdle, till the Friars (a canker of the curssed Covent) fell to drawing of naked knives, and kild indeed the good kind Henrie of Fraunce, the more was the pittie.
Source: wiktionary
To piaffe in backing is rather too much to be expected in the hurry which [etc.].
Source: wiktionary
Accordingly he piaffed away in high spirits and confidence to the head of Fergus's regiment, although understanding not a word of Gaelic, and very little English.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include amble, barge, bundle, cadenced trot, canter.
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