Slower

Examples

• Therefore, the utter extinction of a group is generally, as we have seen, a slower process than its production. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Natural selection is a slower process with man than with any other creature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His march was therefore slower than that of the enemy, who was moving towards his supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She was not physically strong, and after a little time said, Slower! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had made her feel that her slow French and her slower German, were hateful to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This made travel on horseback even slower than through the mud; but I went as fast as the roads would allow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Together we raced across the scarlet sward, I timing my speed that I might not outdistance my slower companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The process of negro emancipation is infinitely slower and it is not accomplished yet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On reaching his station he has but to step back on the slower platform and from this to the moveless sideway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dost thou see, Anna, how much better these blocks are than the slower way of copying by hand? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He knew that chemistry afforded a surer, but slower, procedure; his was a practical, intuitive, field method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• First we passed the regiment, hotter and slower than ever: then the stragglers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The long, slow swell of the ocean would correspond with the longer, slower waves which travel out from the sun, and which on reaching us are interpreted as heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is clear that a force applied to turn wheel 1 causes a slower rotation of wheel 3, and a still slower rotation of wheel 4, but as 4 rotates it winds up a chain and slowly raises _Q_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The rear rank of each party advanced at a slower pace to sustain the defeated, and follow up the success of the victors of their party. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was much slower work returning, however, than it had been coming, for now the darkness was as utter as the silence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The rate of travelling, however, was slower. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The work of raising the tube to its position, 100 feet above high water mark, was a much slower operation, and was attended with serious difficulties. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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