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Sentences starting with slow

Slow she said, with piercing breath, "Rebel fighter dies rebel death! [11]
Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself a man of rare merit according to Hume's ideas. [11]
Slow to make up his mind in some things, as every eligible man must be, he was now coming rapidly to the notion that he might eventually decide upon Victoria as the most fitting mate for one in his position. [9]
Slow let me speak it: From her lips and brow I took the gifts she only could endow. [11]
Slow she moved from among them, turned Where the sky to the westward burned; Gazed for a moment, set her hands Over her brow, so! [11]
Slow sale. [5]
Slow down! [11]

Sentences ending with slow

And mind, don't you hurry--come mighty slow. [5]
Any time; to-day,--next week, next month,--I answered.--One of those cases where the issue is not doubtful, but may be sudden or slow. [6]
Let your outside turn over slow! [5]
No later 'n this mornin' I seen him saunterin' down the lane, quiet an' slow. [13]
Now you mustn't take it unkindly if I remind you that as we don't know you, we must go a little slow. [5]
We must "go slow. [5]
This is rather slow. [5]
They are too slow. [11]
The process is slow, the gathering of strength and power is similarly slow. [5]
Life at Silverdale slow! [9]

Short sentences using slow

That dungeon was slow poison. [11]
But the process is slow. [4]
I'll promise to go slow. [9]
How slow the game was! [11]
Was I slow? [4]
Progress was slow. [4]
I am slow. [11]
A slow creature! [10]
Dreadful slow. [6]

Sentences containing slow two or more times

It is robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whisky. [5]
Slow, slow, we dragged over that velvet powder. [11]
Meanwhile, abiding a day of judgment, she fought ceaselessly to deny the bitter drops in her cup, to tear back the slow, the intangibly slow growth of a hot, corrosive lichen eating into her heart. [13]

More example sentences with the word slow in them

Come now, didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando? [11]
The vineyard, the yellow stubble; and the river rushing on and on with tranquil power, and the slow panting of the steamboat. [9]
It is slow work picking them. [4]
A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
She approached Pierre with slow, quiet steps. [2]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
It ill accords with our desires, as tranquil travelers, to be plunged into such a vortex of slow dissipation. [4]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within the exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public safety. [7]
Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way. [13]
She was--as those who had known that fascinating gentleman were not slow to remark--Randolph Leffingwell over again. [9]
A coarse barmaid, who had grown up in the camp, served the assembled men, but she had no occasion to hurry, for the Spaniards were slow drinkers. [10]
And I marvelled where the Swabian, who was so slow of speech, found the words for retort and answer, till at length it was too much for him and he laid his hand on his hanger as a second and a sharper tongue. [10]
By and by, when I got down nearly to her, I eased up and went slow and cautious. [5]
Go up to West Eleventh, and drive along slow on the south side; I'll show you the place. [8]
The swarthy bearers were far too slow for his longing, and more than once he flung to them as much money as they were wont to earn in a week, to urge them to a brisker pace. [10]
First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
I am--your--hunter,' he went on, speaking with slow, painful emphasis, 'and I shall make you mine. [11]
The song was weird, with a strange thrilling charm; it had the slow dignity of a chant, the roll of an epic, the delight of wild beauty. [11]
No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
For better security we moved slow and cautiously, for the forest was very dense. [5]
And hereafter it was to be slow, one turn at a time of the screws, squeezing by infinitesimal degrees the life out of her soul. [9]
The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the 'doctor' and shut off the water supply from the boilers. [5]
I guess I was born at slow speed. [5]
That law trial was a slow business--appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding. [5]
When the slow voice ceased, and the room became still, she lay quiet for a moment, letting the new thing find secure lodgment in her thought; then, suddenly, she raised herself and threw her arms round her mother in a passion of affection. [11]
His convalescence was very slow and gradual, but no further accident interrupted its even progress. [6]
It was not very large; it was iron bound and had been very strong before the slow years had injured it. [5]
The inflammable, restless Van Hout took the first part, the slow, steadfast Van der Werff, with mighty impressiveness, the second. [10]
The walls were unpainted, but turned by the slow action of sun and air and rain to a quiet dove or slate color. [6]
I was about two hundred feet away from the bear when it turned slow round at me, lifting its foot from the body. [11]
Chopping down a tree with a leaden axe is necessarily a slow process. [6]
Mr. Bernard's professional training had made him slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition. [6]
Calm words, slow touch of hand, but, oh, the cry, The long, long cry of passion and of joy Within my heart; the star-burst in the sky-- The world--our world--which time may not destroy! [11]
Presently, he again took up the thread: "Bien, we travelled slow up through the smoky river country, and beyond into a wild land. [11]
In the pause, too, I heard a long, soft shuffling of feet in the corridor--the evening procession from the chapel--and a slow chant: "I am set down in a wilderness, O Lord, I am alone. [11]
The slow, stammering tongue of an almost silent existence had found the fulness of speech. [11]
These English had toiled, slow but resistless, over the misty Blue Ridge after Boone and Harrod to this old St. Louis of the French, their enemies, whose fur traders and missionaries had long followed the veins of the vast western wilderness. [9]
Putting all things together, I begin to think I am rather lucky than otherwise--a notion which I was slow to take up. [5]
Shon went over to the coat, did as Pourcette had done, and said: "Is it gone y'are, Jo, wid your slow tongue and your big heart? [11]
Suspicion is slow to seize the complacent. [9]
They are trying to revolutionize Russia from within; that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to interruption all the time, and is full of perils for the workers. [5]
Monsieur d'Avranche"--he turned to Philip, and his words were slow and deliberate--"I hope we may yet meet in the Place du Vier Prison --but when and where you will; and you shall find me in the Vendee when you please. [11]
The critics seemed to Philip very slow in letting the public know of the birth of the book. [4]
I was slow to learn that tongue; but Ann's head was not less apt than my brother's, and he was eager and diligent to keep her good speed at the like mark with his own, as she was so quick to apprehend. [10]
She mainly writes to hurry me home and to tell me how much she respects me: but she's generally pretty slow on news. [5]
The others spoke to him, saying: 'Slow, slow, Mudjikewis, when you are in other people's lodges. [5]
Time meant little to him now that he had started, and he edged along with slow side movement till he got clear of the thicket. [13]
It is impossible to get out of a draught, and the progress is so slow that variety enough is not presented to the eye to keep one from ennui. [4]
There is nothing to be thought of but to hand over every penny as fast as it comes in--and that will be slow enough! [5]
For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. [5]
As he stood thus, worried, exasperated, and perplexed, the fact that there was in her attitude something ominous, dangerous, was slow to dawn on him. [9]
He answered the thought: "From ten years of pain and slow recovery from an accident, and then from nineteen years' pollution, shame, depravity, crime, ending with death at the hands of the executioner. [5]
Beastly slow place, this, unless one is a deacon or a doctor of divinity. [9]
In accordance with this view it seems, if we turn to geological evidence, that organisation on the whole has advanced throughout the world by slow and interrupted steps. [1]
But,--go slow with this labour business, dad, there's dynamite in it. [9]
Did you ever think what the life of the sailor is, that swings at the top of a mast with the frost freezin' his very soul, and because he's slow, owin' to the cold, gets twenty lashes for not bein' quicker? [11]
The only world they knew was this cool room, whose oak floors were browned by the slow searching stains of Time, and darkened by the footsteps of six generations that had come and gone through the old house. [11]
And how slow they did creep along! [5]
Take care, or there'll be no Slow Down Ranch for you. [11]
Well, he got there all safe, and was reaching slow and steady toward the buttons, but he knocked down something that made a noise, and we see him slump down flat an' soft in the bottom, and lay still. [5]
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded. [7]
Both horses ran their limit, were allowed slow down in time to save them, and went on dripping, heaving, staggering. [13]
The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
Then, far down the stone-paved corridors, one heard a vague slow sound approaching: clank . [5]
In return, as the stars wheeled on, and the moon stole to the zenith, majestic and slow, Ebn Ezra offered to his troubled friend only the philosophy of the predestinarian, mingled with the calm of the stoic. [11]
He knew by the silence that followed his words, and the slow, steady look she gave him, that she was not won nor on the way to the winning. [11]
The sacredness of the Sabbath, the hidden memory of an unrevealed and unrequited affection, the slow years of gathering and wasting sweetness, are in the smell of the pink and the sweet-clover. [4]
The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
Between him and the outer door, against the ardent blue background, stood Sophie Farcinelle--the English faced Sophie--a little heavy, a little slow, but with the large, long profile which is the type of English beauty--docile, healthy, cow-like. [11]
The conscience of the North was slow to rise against it, though bitter controversies from time to time took place. [7]
At half-past nine the great doors opened, and the procession began, in slow and stately moving fashion, to enter. [4]
With equal willingness, the first will be slow at learning; the second will take to his books as a pointer or a setter to his field-work. [6]
To employ again the figure of the castaway, she often wondered why she of all others had been rescued from the tortures of slow drowning and thrown up on an island. [9]
Then Lassiter, carrying the field-glasses began to lead the way up the slow rise of ground. [13]
Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then--well, it was wonderful to see! [5]
Both complained that the administration was spiritless, undecided, and lamentably slow in its proceedings. [7]
I was saying that nothing had been so slow in its progress in the world as domestic architecture. [4]
It was natural that he should look upon Silverdale as a slow place, and there was something delicious in his taking, for granted that she shared this opinion. [9]
Her old music teacher, Feys, to whom she was so much indebted, had been attacked by slow fever, and she had received him in her house five days ago, and provided with loving devotion for his nursing. [10]
Confess where your sweetheart has fled to and they shall be few, but if you are slow to answer they will be many. [10]
The broken figures supporting the burden of the chimney-piece, though mutilated, were still distinguishable for what they had been--far different from the dust without--and showed sadly by the empty hearth, like creatures who had outlived their kind, and mourned their own too slow decay. [12]
There was a sudden movement towards the door, but the exit of the crowd was stopped by a slow but clear voice speaking in French. [11]
Creeping along at such a slow rate, we reached Bologna too late for the Florence train, It was eight o'clock, and still raining. [4]
He was the subject of a slow, torturing, malignant, and almost necessarily fatal disease. [6]
Then a fierce stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the moaning sea shallows aflow. [11]
The prisoners of state who were being transported to the mines made slow progress. [10]
He had just started for Slow Down Ranch armed with his greasy, well- thumbed Bible like a weapon in his pocket, when he heard a voice call him. [11]
It was a splendid population--for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home--you never find that sort of people among pioneers --you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. [5]
My client, in spite of the ominous condition of his opal, was not slow to make his intentions exceedingly clear. [9]
The slow of speech becomes fluent; the torpid listener becomes electric with vivacity, and alive all over with interest. [6]
There was no sound save the ticking of the clock on the mantel above her head, the dog's slow breathing, the snapping of the log on the fire, and a soft rush of heat up the chimney. [11]
It shall be so--but I shall prevail," he added, with slow decision; "I shall prevail with him. [11]
As he did so, the man from Slow Down Ranch cantering towards Tralee caught his eye. [11]
The mist, though sluggish and slow to move, was of a keenly searching kind. [12]
Lassiter climbed with slow, measured steps, and blood dripped from him to make splotches on the white stone. [13]
Their speed was slow, however, because pitfalls were somewhat common, and had to be guarded against. [5]
Progress was very slow, for many peasants and hogs were coming toward them from the Schweinemarkt at their right. [10]

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