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Example sentences for "slowness"

Lexicographically close words:
slowed; slower; slowest; slowing; slowly; slows; sluagh; slubber; slubbing; sludge
  1. They doubted and feared, and again and again were they rebuked for the slowness and littleness of their faith.

  2. Yet even when one was most impatient with the Duke's slowness in uptake, one often admired him most and felt at the back of one's mind that he was most in the right.

  3. The modern gaucho has preserved from his ancestors the slowness in speech, the reserved manner, and scrutinising eye of the man who lives on the defensive.

  4. The very same slowness of apprehension and gradual growth in the education of conscience, and in the perception of the application of Christian principles to duty, applies to the individual as to the Church.

  5. Of how much blessing and happiness we all rob ourselves by our slowness to feel that!

  6. In the lower region of daily life and common mercies the same strange slowness to take what we have is found.

  7. The slowness of the operation and the inconsiderable metallic result induced them to increase the size of the stone receptacle.

  8. Speed will save lives; speed will save this Nation which is in peril; speed will save our freedom and our civilization--and slowness has never been an American characteristic.

  9. But these are only the other side of our growing sensitivity to the persistence of want in the midst of plenty, of our impatience with the slowness with which age-old ills are being overcome.

  10. It regulated its pace by that of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness and agility were discernible.

  11. It was only the slowness of the passage that troubled her.

  12. It has an articulate voice, and when we have taught it a few words, the meaning which it gives them may be better divined by us according to the tone and the rapidity or slowness of its utterance.

  13. The king’s slowness and long deliberation show also that, could any reasonable plea for mercy have been found, even David himself would have been spared.

  14. Cato's natural stubbornness and slowness to be persuaded, may also have made it more difficult for him to be taught.

  15. Thus runs Ctesias's account, tardily, with the slowness of a blunt weapon, effecting the victim's death.

  16. Throughout the entire day the Princess Ziska herself never left her private apartments, and towards late afternoon Gervase began to feel the hours drag along with unconscionable slowness and monotony.

  17. You are very welcome, Monsieur Gervase," said the Princess then, speaking with a measured slowness that was attractive as well as soothing to the ear.

  18. With respect to his critical labours, he proceeded with singular slowness and difficulty.

  19. But the lulling music that rang in the ears of the idlers took all significance away from the fearful disguise of the boats, and from the cautious slowness with which they were gliding along off the Shores of Pleasure.

  20. He, who had thrice circumnavigated the globe, wearily shrunk at the thought of the slowness of travel due to the war.

  21. Granvella expressed impatience at Catherine’s slowness in repressing the Huguenots.

  22. He also identified as her writing two letters from Edinburgh to her husband at the time of her visit to her parents in November, in which she spoke of the slowness of her recovery and her inability to go out, except two or three times.

  23. He is first attacked by slowness of comprehension, the inevitable consequence of that idleness that causes the cowardly to shun the battle.

  24. Little by little the lungs will dilate and one will unconsciously increase the length of the inspiration and the slowness with which the air is expelled.

  25. And it had fallen, fallen steadily, with immeasurable slowness and absolute impartiality, on all the card above had left unsheltered.

  26. The widow had come out to reclaim her young charge, who seemed not exactly indignant but perceptibly disappointed, at her ladyship's slowness of apprehension.

  27. My dear wife is in the habit of imputing to me a certain slowness and defective observation of surrounding event.

  28. There may have been slowness or laxity of investigation, but a sufficient excuse may lie in the fact that Ibbetson certainly spoke the name wrong, or that his hearer caught it wrong.

  29. That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit.

  30. Euphobias, lying on his back on his couch, gazed aloft with dreamy eyes, with no other earthly desire than to reach forth his glass and call for wine; but Alcon and the Greek merchants became impatient at the slowness of the banquet.

  31. I have been led to say this so as to illustrate my observations on the extreme slowness of the fusion of glass by an analogy in the manufacture of gunpowder.

  32. This time it was not the inexperience and impetuosity of youth, but the antiquated method and slowness of age, that brought about our ruin.

  33. This is exactly the aggregate of those negative forces which restrain, as I think, the physiological power--and you bring forward this slowness of multiplication in order to prove that this physiological power has no existence.

  34. This shows us the extreme slowness with which Capital must have been formed at the beginning, and what an enormous amount of human labour each satisfaction must originally have cost.


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