To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
By little and little, or Little by little, by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.
Dimly and instinctively, as Jack went on, a faint sense of resentment and righteous indignation against the man with the white beard rose up vaguely in my mind by slow degrees.
It was best you should recover your general health and faculties by slow degrees, without being puzzled and distracted by constant upsetting recollections and suggestions of your past history.
By slow degreesit became a settled rule that Dora should stay at home and Ronald go out.
Her beauty never dazzled, never took any one by storm; it won by slow degrees a place in one's heart.
The practice of appending to the narratives of publick transactions more minute and domestick intelligence, and filling the newspapers with advertisements, has grown up by slow degrees to its present state.
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees.
By slow degrees he has obtained an intimate acquaintance with every field on the place, and no little knowledge of natural history.
The colossal accumulation of silt thus produced filled up at last all the great arm of the sea between the two mountain chains, and joined the Deccan by slow degrees to the continent of Asia.
It was a long and tedious task; but in the silence of the night the sound of the rushing water acted as a guide, and by slow degrees, and after many a rest, he felt at last that he must be getting nearer to the river.
Then he has sold us after all," thought the boy, and by slow degrees he strained himself over so that he could look through the knot-hole again.
The fire is to be increased by slow degrees, so that, by the end of 6 hours, the copper may begin to flow.
All the schemes of government, my lords, have been perfected by slow degrees, and the defects of every regulation supplied by the wisdom of successive generations.
Harrigan stuffed the twine into his hip pocket; then the two Adams carried their Eve to the shade of a tree and watched the color come back to her face by slow degrees.
So they waited while the noise of the nightly carousal waxed high and higher, and then died away by slow degrees.
We should see the rights of citizens, and the liberties of nations extinguished by slow degrees, and the groans, and protestations and appeals of the weak treated as seditious murmurings.
My text sums up the result of many interviews in which, by slow degrees, He sought to put the disciples in possession of this unwelcome truth.
He came to his terrible pre-eminence in crime by slow degrees, and by paths which we may all tread.
We know that all has been produced by slow degrees, starting from weak and shapeless rudiments.
Did humanity begin with a coarse fetichism, and thence rise by slow degrees to higher conceptions?
You have told me as a matter of history how the organization of the world was manifested by slow degrees; you have given me no account of the cause of that organization.
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