Fouquet bowed again and left the apartment, affecting all the slowness of a man who walks with difficulty.
In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals.
Their slowness had given Douglas an idea, especially since he had managed to reach the Jeep behind the petrol station.
With calculated slowness, Jake climbed over the wall.
The hour dragged by with excruciating slowness, but at last Kristina played the closing hymn and scurried down the stairs to stand beside Cody as he shook hands with the departing congregation.
The earnestness of his words, the studied slowness with which he pronounced them, the solemnity of his oath, gave the musketeer the most complete satisfaction.
With deliberate slowness he undid her vest, her breathing growing increasingly ragged as he proceeded.
With gut-churning slowness, as Pyrrha stood there watching in mute horror, they dragged the child into the depths.
We waited in a suspense that made the seconds pass with nightmare slowness.
Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own.
