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Definition of Change-of-pace
1. Noun. A baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Change-of-pace
Literary usage of Change-of-pace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"In the course of a century or two, a difference in the duration of animal life
might be discovered (supposing life not to be affected by the change of pace) ..."
2. The Art of Public Speaking by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Dale Carnegie (1915)
"Mr. Howard Lindsay, Stage Manager for Miss Margaret Anglin, recently said to the
present writer that change of pace was one of the most effective tools of ..."
3. The Teacher and His Staff: Differentiating Teaching Roles: Report of the by Thomas Charles Bridges, H Hessell Tiltman, National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards (U.S.) (1909)
"And the combined, multilevel attack may attract the kind of national attention
which will result in a faster than customary change of pace in education. ..."
4. Tennis as I Play it by Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1915)
"Change of pace is one of the prime requisites of control. This is shown clearly
by Norman E. Brookes, one of the greatest service players of the world, who, ..."
5. Cricket by William Gilbert Grace (1891)
"His change of pace was generally to a slower ball; and now and then he changed
his elevation, a device which put the batsman in two minds. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Change of pace, disguised as well as possible, is also an important part of
pitching strategy, as well as variation of the delivery and the play upon the ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"... may I introduce another animal, and say that the stanza as printed—not, I
believe, as written by Scott—reminds me of the sudden change of pace in a dog, ..."
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