After reading it with the most tiresome, torturing slowness, she rose, and laying it on the table under Mary's eye, and pressing down her finger on two lines in the letter, said, "Mary, have you told James that you loved him?" "Yes, mother, always.

In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor surpassed all others.

Thus, in the word hominibus, mi as the acute accent; but ni, which follows, demands equal slowness in the pronunciation."

The dilatoriness of the French Government seems past all belief, and yet, in spite of his faith in the more expeditious methods of his own country, he was fated to encounter the same exasperating slowness at home.

The cargo boats, merchant steamers that made only a few knots an hour, exacted a desperate slowness of the rest of the convoy.

She spoke deliberately, patiently, indulging all Sam's slowness of penmanship "'DEAR Mr. 'UCKS,This comes 'opin' to find you well as it leaves us all at present.

But, thanks to what seemed to the colonists infuriating slowness, the advance up the Waikato was not begun until the latter part of October, and the conquest of the country not completed until February.

" He put by a wisp of his frosted hair, the better to scrutinize, with insulting slowness, the sheriff's savage face.

" Lester and White finished their cups with irritating slowness, pausing between sips to sniff the aroma, and to discover the sex and dates of arrival of the "strangers" which floated in some numbers in the beverage.

How eager and ingenious must the human mind be about the devil's work, and what long practiceconsidering its visual slowness and dulnessmust it have had at the said work, ever to have picked out this paltry thing among the thousand weeds of the forest as a tool for its jealousy and revenge.

No reasoning, no entreaty, could quicken the characteristic slowness of the Spanish ministers.

The character of the author, obnoxious for his share in the usurped government; the turn of the language, so different from that of the age; the seriousness of a subject so discordant with its lively frivolitiesgave to the author's renown the slowness of growth with the permanency of the oak.

Let us first consider slowness and rapidity, and the rules which govern them.

To understand the apparent slowness of the Federals in moving from place to place and their inability to pursue the rebels away from the railroads, some idea must be given as to their system of operating.

The first thing that Perris heard was the most provocative and sneering tone of the foreman, and cursing the slowness of the buckskin, he realized that he had been beaten to his goal.