In spite of this, their progress grew slower and slower.

In spite of this, their progress grew slower and slower.

He should be removed by a slower process if the thing could as easily be arranged.

Slower and slower moved the thing, then came a pause and sudden quivering, and then a crash beneath and all about, and the jumper, with its living load, dropped to the bottom!

Slower and slower moved the thing, then came a pause and sudden quivering, and then a crash beneath and all about, and the jumper, with its living load, dropped to the bottom!

By the end of the first hour he was compelled to rest frequently by taking to the sledge, and their progress was much slower.

Next him, writers and libellers are most pernicious, for though the contagion they disperse spreads slower and with less force than preaching, yet it lasts longer, and in time extends to more, and with less danger to the author, who is not easily discovered if he use any care to conceal himself.

Then the slope grew steeper and we got up too much speed for comfort, so we finally had to be content with a slower method of locomotion.

The next mile is two seconds slower, but the speed is more than maintained on the third mile.

"But they've got to be slower than Old Tilly!" "Can't do it!"

In times of slower growth, man did not enter a situation without a certain preparation or adaptedness to it.

Progress was slower here than with the express wagon, or even the ice wagon; you had to do lots of backing, with much stern calling to the big horses, and often it took a long time to ease the big boxes to the sidewalktime and grunting exclamations.

The liberation of Serbia from the Turkish dominion and its establishment as an independent state were matters of much slower and more arduous accomplishment than were the same processes in the other Balkan countries.

Sorbs which have been laid by when they are already dead-ripe should be used promptly, but those which were picked green are slower to decay: for green fruit in the store house must there go through the process of ripening which was denied it on the tree.

After a time, so many mistakes were made by means of these false signals, that the Jews were compelled to give up the system of beacon-fires altogether, and to depend on the slower course of sending messengers.

The driver proceededa little slower than before.

The strokes seemed to come slower by night than day, and sounded hollower.

The miserable but mighty buffaloes were slower than oxen and, horns and all, tame as sheepthe slaves of serfs!

Between 1880 and 1890 the colonists were for the most part resolutely at work adapting themselves to the new order of thingsto lower prices and slower progress.

Slower and yet slower we moved, our screw scarcely making a ripple on the water, for many other boats were cautiously feeling their way to their respective berths, and we must use all our caution not to run foul of them.

Slower and yet slower we moved, our screw scarcely making a ripple on the water, for many other boats were cautiously feeling their way to their respective berths, and we must use all our caution not to run foul of them.

They are slower than ours, that's all.

The rhythm of their fall was slower, as if the stride of the animal were much longer.

With one foot listlessly dragging on the floor of the portico so as to propel the hammock, and lying partly on my face while I soothed my wide-eyed doll to sleep, I lay swaying in childish fashion when I heard Evelyn's soft step beside me, accompanied by another, firmer, slower, but as gentle if not as light.

He always seemed to me much younger than he was, or than I wasas boys, even under ordinary circumstances, are apt to appear to girls of their own age, from their slower development of mind and manner, if not of body.