Use slowly in a sentence
Sentences starting with slowly
- Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
- Slowly Dyck folded up the letter, when he had read it, and put it in his pocket. [11]
- Slowly he folded up the letter, pressed it to his lips, and put it in the pocket over his heart. [11]
- Slowly he got up now, went to the door, and opened it. [11]
- Slowly she got up from the dressing-table and went over to the bed in a hushed kind of way. [11]
- Slowly the cortege uncoiled itself to one long unbroken line from the steps of the Cohue Royale to the porch of the church. [11]
- Slowly she walked to the window and looked out across the green grounds where the wind was shaking the wet trees, past the unfinished monument to the Father of her country, and across the broad Potomac to Alexandria in the hazy distance. [9]
- Slowly Oldring sank to his knees, and the hand, dragging at the gun, fell away. [13]
- Slowly it came to him that Little Hammer was keeping him alive against the will of the spirits--but why should they strike him instead of the Indian? [11]
- Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment. [13]
Sentences ending with slowly
- Grassette's face flushed with anger, for the prison had not broken his spirits; then he got up slowly. [11]
- She shut the window slowly. [11]
- A wooden trough was disclosed hanging under a ledge of rock, and water dripped into it softly, slowly. [11]
- In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
- She would ride to the city on horseback this time; the bearers moved too slowly. [10]
- Finally I decided to risk it, and the first thing that I beheld was a palm-leaf fan, moving slowly. [9]
- Pierre was about to reply, but there came the sound of footsteps through the open door, and presently Wendling entered slowly. [11]
- Goodness, it seems to me, acts more slowly. [10]
- Angele's heart fluttered to her mouth, but the soft, simple music helped her, and she began with eyes bent upon the ground, her linked fingers clasping and unclasping slowly. [11]
- Academic villages seem to change very slowly. [6]
Short sentences using slowly
- Mustapha Kali turned slowly. [11]
- He moved away slowly. [11]
- He came out slowly. [11]
- The day dragged slowly along. [10]
- The moon slowly rose. [11]
- He crossed the islet slowly. [11]
- He slowly followed her. [10]
- Slowly her eyes had filled. [9]
- Slowly they spelled--Peter Erwin. [9]
- She drew it back slowly. [11]
Sentences containing slowly two or more times
- And how soon would anguish of soul utterly destroy the spell, which was slowly, slowly, yet steadily diminishing, and, when the mirror revealed wrinkles which the skill of no Olympus could efface, when she----No, she was not created to grow old! [10]
- At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
- And there he stood, with the crotch of his cue resting against his disk while the ship rose slowly up, sank slowly down, rose again, sank again. [5]
- It sank but slowly into her consciousness, and slowly the blood left her face, slowly but surely: left it at length as white as the lace curtain of the window which she clutched in her distress. [9]
- But now the puffs came from her walls slowly and more slowly, so that my heart sank with the setting sun. [9]
- How slowly the night passes to one tipping and swinging along in a slowly moving stage! [4]
- It must slowly mould a public for itself; and the resistance of the early thoughtless judgments must be overcome by a counter-resistance to itself, in a better audience slowly mustering against the first. [6]
- Slowly the ruined mill rose up again, and very slowly indeed the widow of Palass Poucette recovered her spirits, though she remained a widow in spite of all appeals; but M. Fille and his sister never were the same after they lost their friend. [11]
- Under this tree he was M. Mallard, the infidel tailor, whose life was slowly entering into the life of this place called Chaudiere, slowly being acted upon by habit, which, automatically repeated, at length becomes character. [11]
- It seemed too hard to say: the door of her heart enclosing her secret opened so slowly, so slowly. [11]
More example sentences with the word slowly in them
- He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
- It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
- The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
- While the night wore on he rode as slowly back to the town as he had galloped from it like a centaur with a captive. [11]
- It was a woman, between forty and fifty years of age, who rose slowly to her feet as the Avocat entered, and, without preliminary, put into his hands a document. [11]
- Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
- Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. [2]
- Lady Belward turned without a word, and slowly passed from the room. [11]
- There he mingled with the revellers, and walked slowly onward, seeking suspiciously and anxiously for his vanished favorite. [10]
- I walked home with her, slowly, the length of the Hutchinses' block. [9]
- He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing. [2]
- All the hunt, who had been moving slowly, shouted, "Stop! [2]
- A figure in white stepped through and slowly passed him. [11]
- In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
- It is noon when we set out from Visp, in true pilgrim fashion, and the sun is at first hot; but as we slowly rise up the easy ascent, we get a breeze, and forget the heat in the varied charms of the walk. [4]
- Sobieski touched Barry Whalen's arm, and they all stood waiting while a hand slowly opened wide the door of the little room, and, white with a mastered agitation, Byng appeared. [11]
- In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
- Meanwhile dark clouds were spreading slowly over the bright-blue vault of the June sky. [10]
- But few seconds were needed for these reflections, and as he was accustomed when need arose to control himself, he said: "We must see--some means must be found--" and then without any greeting to his host, he slowly returned to his own house. [10]
- Slowly, heavily, he went to his study, where his breakfast was always eaten. [11]
- When I presently went forth from the house, a bee-keeper's waggon was slowly moving from the court-yard. [10]
- As he got well slowly, and life opened out before him again, he felt he had to pursue a new course, and in that course he must take account of Kitty Tynan, though he could not decide how. [11]
- We left Jacob's Well and traveled till eight in the evening, but rather slowly, for we had been in the saddle nineteen hours, and the horses were cruelly tired. [5]
- She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
- The twelve long weeks dragged slowly by, and the day of deliverance came at last. [5]
- She slowly and wearily entered the sitting-room, where her father was by this time waiting for her and his water. [10]
- We pursued our way slowly, from time to time catching a glimpse of a dwelling almost hid in the distant foliage, until at length we came to a place a little more pretentious than those which we had seen. [9]
- We made our way slowly to the mill, and found Mr. Devlin, Ruth, and Roscoe, with Ruth's sister, and one or two other friends, expecting us. [11]
- Austen took his way slowly across the state-house park, threading among the groups between the snow-banks towards the wide facade of the Pelican Hotel. [9]
- Stafford saw the way of escape for Jasmine slowly open out, and went on quickly. [11]
- Once on the way his brain began slowly to clear, but he grew painfully cold. [11]
- A dipper of water was brought, and when she had drunk it she raised her head slowly and her eyes sought those of Ingolby. [11]
- Yet as I watched the mist slowly rise, there grew in me the feeling that there lay the end of my quest. [11]
- Felix Marchand's face was twisted with hate as he got slowly to his feet. [11]
- Mr. Billings' answer was to wink, very slowly, with one eye; and shortly after these pleasantries were over, the case was called. [9]
- The bitter truth was slowly dawning upon the wife. [11]
- And now it was peopled, for there came from a cleft of the hills an army of buffaloes lounging slowly down the waste, with tossing manes and hoofs stirring the snow into a feathery scud. [11]
- Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it. [2]
- The storekeeper's attention was next distracted by the sight of one who wandered slowly but ceaselessly from group to group, kicking up his heels behind, and halting always in the rear of the speakers. [9]
- At first this was fitful and intermittent, but as he showed both literary discrimination and tact in judging of the market, his services were more in request, and slowly he acquired confidential relations with the house. [4]
- When the door was closed, he turned round on Louise slowly, and then he held out his hands to her, for she was shrinking away, as though he had repulsed her. [11]
- And Mr. Holt was almost exclusively occupied in slowly masticating the special dishes which the butler impressively laid before him. [9]
- At last he walked some distance away from the house, deeply lost in thought, and he did not notice that a man came slowly, heavily, to the door of the hut, and opening it, entered. [11]
- And then we walked slowly to the house and into the dining room, Mr. Carvel leading the procession, and I an unwilling rear, knowing that my fate would be decided between them. [9]
- After that he walked slowly to the back of the house and looked in at the kitchen window. [9]
- The railroad president walked slowly to the arm of the chair in which his chief counsel was seated, and stood looking down at him. [9]
- And as I walked slowly down the deserted street, my head in a whirl, a hand was laid on my shoulder. [9]
- I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
- Hodder resumed his walk more slowly, and in a few minutes reached his rooms in the parish house. [9]
- He watched her waking slowly to an understanding of the life, and of all that it involved. [11]
- The old man waited for a minute in a painful silence, then he turned slowly round, and, with tight-pressed lips, looked at the woman in the rocking-chair. [11]
- Presently a large vessel, with new sails, beautiful white hull, and gracious form, came slowly round a point. [11]
- Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
- Day by day Venters watched the white of her face slowly change to brown, and the wasted cheeks fill out by imperceptible degrees. [13]
- And though I urged him not to tax himself, he spoke slowly thus: "And David was in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. [11]
- That scoundrelly young upstart--" "If you want my opinion," I replied, trying to speak slowly, "it is that Mr. Farrar ought to get ten thousand dollars. [9]
- I went slowly upstairs, threw off my clothes mechanically, and tumbled into bed. [9]
- He came slowly upon the puma. [11]
- I picked it up where he stood when he fired the fatal train," He looked out over the house from his high perch, and his countenance began to darken; he slowly raised his hand, and pointed: "There stands the assassin! [5]
- He slowly went up to the chest in which his tools and instruments lay, and bitter tears ran down his cheeks, as he took his heaviest hammer in his hand. [10]
- She walked slowly up to him, looking as though she would plunge a knife into his heart. [11]
- Then we started up the machine slowly, by hand, and fastened our eyes on the space-selecting pins. [5]
- He slowly tore up the letters. [11]
- Belward came slowly up the aisle, and paused about the middle. [11]
- Iberville himself came up slowly, for he was stiff and his limbs were shaking. [11]
- Jean Jacques got up slowly and looked at him as though scarce understanding where he was. [11]
- He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill. [5]
- We stirred him up occasionally, but he only unclosed an eye and slowly closed it again, abating no jot of his stately piety of demeanor or his tremendous seriousness. [5]
- He glanced slowly up at Pride, as if debating whether to tell him something. [11]
- She looked slowly up at him. [11]
- The log flared up again, and he turned slowly and looked at the shadows in her face. [9]
- It was not until then that she turned and slowly left the room. [9]
- Lacey did not understand, he did not recognise Hylda as yet; but he knew by instinct the Saadat's wishes, and he motioned the others to ride more slowly, while he and they watched horsemen coming out from Assouan towards them. [11]
- All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
- I set the umbrella slowly and carefully on end against the wall, but as soon as I took my hand away, its heel slipped from under it, and down it came again with another bang. [5]
- She ain't the type," said Mr. Hopkins, slowly, not without a note of regret, and lapsed into silence. [9]
- The house had two windows, one on either side of the unlocked doorway; and when the old man slowly swung the door open, there was shown an interior of humble character, but neat and well-ordered. [11]
- Then she found two candles and lighted them, placing them on the mantel, and turning to the crasset hanging by its osier rings from a beam, slowly lighted it. [11]
- Presently, however, he turned to the back curtain, as Orion moved slowly up the heavens, and found the key to the situation. [11]
- The horse suddenly turned straight towards her, came over slowly, and, with arched neck, dropped his head on her shoulder. [11]
- And then she turned her head, slowly, and saw him, and her lips parted, and a startled look came into her eyes, but she did not move. [9]
- As the silent troops reached the neighborhood of Allertssohn's house, the clock in the church-steeple slowly struck twelve, and directly after the alarm-bell began to sound from the tower of Pancratius. [10]
- Large tears now trickled down from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired. [5]
- And so they travelled on in silence for a long time, and slowly they came to the opal haze, which smelled sweet as floating flowers, and gave their hearts a halcyon restfulness. [11]
- He came slowly towards the bushranger who, smiling, said as he advanced: "Yes, arrest me! [11]
- The doctor went towards it as if to fetch it to him, but he slowly shook his head. [6]
- He moved slowly towards his purpose. [11]
- In 1620 it took a new start and grew fast until 1714 then for the most part slowly until 1786, when it started again and grew pretty well and uniformly until within the last dozen years, when it seems to have got on sluggishly. [6]
- And very fatiguing, too; for we had tried hard, along at first, to catch up with the guide, but had only fagged ourselves, in vain; for although he was traveling slowly he was yet able to go faster than the hampered caravan over such ground. [5]
- A mountain seemed to weigh upon the watchers' breasts, for the wooden monster which now entered the little harbour moved forward as slowly and silently as a spectral ship. [10]
- Presently she began to walk slowly towards the stairs, descended them, and looked around her. [9]
- Then Cynthia began to walk on, slowly, and he followed her on the other side of the fence. [9]
- When he came to these words which follow, he pronounced them very slowly and with special emphasis. [6]
- He walked slowly to the table, put his hat on it and sat down in a chair beside it. [9]
- She looked first to the left, then to the right, then straight before her, apparently without seeing anything, and at last slowly settled down, with her two eyes, blank of any particular meaning, directed upon the Colonel. [6]
- I looked forward to the day when I would take you to my 'tan', and there we two would--" A flush sprang suddenly to Fleda Druse's face, then slowly faded, leaving it pale and indignant. [11]
- She seemed about to speak, but with second thought, moved on slowly past the mill and towards the Meeting-house. [11]
- I just wanted to say," Mr. Hunt added slowly, "that I respect you all the more for trying to get me out. [9]
- He began slowly to pit against his former startling admissions the testimony of his few principles, and to buttress them on every side with apposite observations, naive, pungent. [11]
- The sun seems to move too slowly to those who long and wait, and a planet would be more likely to fail in punctuality than a lover when called by love. [10]
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