If we only had to deliver the matrices in the park,” went on Alan nodding his head, “we could do that with a slow down.
This meant that the double set of matrices would leave the Herald office on a fast motor at two o’clock; that the Flyer would leave Newark about two ten and, advancing under slow speed, pass over the waiting tug at two twenty.
It turns the edge of the hardest chisel driven against it, yet the same drill, under slow pressure, will cleave it almost as easily as aluminum.
We can’t afford to hustle over the Atlantic at two hundred miles an hour to lose one hundred and fifty miles an hour on a slow fifty mile an hour express train.
As he did so, three slow and distinct taps were given on the crown of his head.
At this instant, as Bonaparte swore, and swore truly to the end of his life, a slow and distinct rap was given on the crown of his bald head.
After some time, about ten or twelve minutes, the Cobra becomes less animated, grows quiet, and then sways as though influenced by the slow and monotonous rhythm of the musician; it keeps incessantly darting out its tongue.
Deglutition is slow and painful, but the gastric and intestinal juices are so speedy in action, that the digestion of the most resistant substances rapidly takes place.
In most cases the snake holds it in its mouth until death ensues; the reptile then sets to work to swallow its victim, an operation which is always slow and painful.
At the present time this temperature is a chief obstacle to further shrinkage, and so powerfully opposes the gravitative forces as to maintain nearly an equilibrium with them, thus causing a very slow rate of further condensation.
Owing to its slow rotation about its axis, a point on the moon receives the solar radiation uninterruptedly for more than a fortnight, and that too unmitigated by any cloud or vaporous covering.
On this account it is frequently called the precession of the equinoxes, and this motion of the equinox, slowthough it is, is a matter of some consequence in connection with chronology and the length of the year.
Such a system would simplify railway time tables and similar publications; but the American public is slow to adopt it, although the system has come into practical use in Canada and Spain.
When a slow rider increases his speed we recognize at once that he has applied additional power to the wheel, and when this speed is slackened it equally shows that force has been applied against the motion.
In the presence of such large fictitious changes astronomers are slow to accept smaller ones as real.
The old concept of a universe created in finished form and destined so to abide until its final dissolution, has passed away from scientific thought and is replaced by the idea of slow development.
In this stately house were now assembled, as Harley's guests, many of the more important personages whom the slow length of this story has made familiar to the reader.
When, recalling his duty to the Italian, he once more struck into the road to Norwood, the slow pace of his horse was significant of his own exhausted spirits; a deep dejection had succeeded to feverish excitement.
I may be convertible, but conversion is a slow progress; courtship should be a quick one,--ask Miss Jemima.
Presently a young gentleman of better mien and dress than the other refugees entered, not hastily, but rather with a slow and proud step, as if, though he deigned to take shelter, he scorned to run to it.
Always slow in a country where a parcel of lazy, idle lords and dukes and baronets seem to think 'time is pleasure.
He touched with his cane a large Newfoundland dog, who lay stretched near his feet, and dog and man went slow through the growing twilight, and over the brown dry turf.
For one whole week Bessie Van Ashton had seemingly thrown wide the portals of her heart and bade him enter, a privilege of which he was not slow to avail himself.
It was now the turn of the guests to dance if they chose; a privilege of which they were not slow to avail themselves.
Besides, you ought to have known that the furs wouldslow you down on the trip to town.
The dogs made slow progress through the deep drifts.
It was the ordinary slow train, the third class, not even a rapide, and only a few second-class carriages were included in its make-up.
This was intended for use in Congress and the State Legislatures, and to take the place of the slow process of calling the roll on any vote.
Without it the engine would have been too clumsy and slow for practical use, but with it the greatest possibilities of use appeared.
It took less time, but it was still very hard and slow work.
But it had been so slow in coming that, when his rights were to a certain extent established, there were only a few years left his patents to run.
The poorness of the last blessing is due to the fact that the Pandya king was slow to offer his good wishes.
By respectability he may develop into an Agamudaiyan, and, by slow degrees, become a Vellala.
Rather slow and easy, generally, in movement, he could shew the spring and power of a cat, when it was necessary; nature and training having done their best.
She ran on for some little time, amusing herself and the girls, and putting slow Miss Blodgett in something of an embarrassment, she was so much too quick for her.
So she sat and looked at him this evening, and thought she had never known before how beautiful he was; and the evening was not slow to her, nor long, though it was utterly silent.
You see, we cannot wait for your aunt's slow motions, and you must be clothed.
Arnold resumed hisslow walk up and down the carpet.
She looked like the figures which all have seen on cenotaphs, and anxiously and often the doctor felt the slow pulse, that seemed weary of its mission.
Even in the case of the planets, the variations in the form and position of the orbits are so slow that long periods of observation are required for their correct determination.
But when these changes are averaged through years and centuries it is found that the average orbit has a secular variation which, for a number of centuries, may appear as a very slow progressive change in one direction only.
That is to say, making abstraction of the pitching, the ship is slowly rising and falling in a total period of nearly twelve hours, while superimposed upon this slow motion is a more rapid motion due to the waves.
In the case of the greater number of the fixed stars this is so slow that centuries may have to elapse before motion can be deduced.
The process of development is also made slow and difficult by the great amount of labour involved in deriving the results of astronomical observations.
In illustration of the very slow diffusion of heat in the solid crust of the earth, and as affording a further indication of the climate of northern Asia, reference may here be made to the frozen soil of Siberia, in the vicinity of Yakutsk.
We stumbled along as fast as we could, but could make but slow progress, burdened as we were by the helpless form of our comrade.
With infinite caution and by slow degrees, they had approached and sounded him.
We are slow to realise, in fact, that time is the only true measure of space, and that London to-day is nearer to New York than it was to Edinburgh a hundred and fifty years ago.
But changes of sentiment are naturally slow and, from moment to moment, imperceptible.
As we approached it, it proved to be a rusty old sleigh fastened behind a covered wagon, proceeding at a very slow rate, and taking up the whole road.
How this wreck of the "Escambia" repeats the trite lesson that so many have tried to teach, and that they who need it most are so slow to learn!
In so many hours great things may be done; the slow tortoise makes a long journey by losing no time.
But he knew that he must not slow down for a second.
So he worked with exceeding care, mixing up his curves and his fast and slow balls so skillfully that in the first four innings only two hits were made off him, and one of them a scratch, and no one got as far as second base.
She gave them very careful directions for finding the station, and as there was none too much time and the walking was bound to be slow they set out at once, after thanking their friend for having come a second time to their relief.
Guess old Bailey's rheumatism made him slow in getting up to the house," suggested Fred.
Then he mixed in a slow one that seemed easy enough to hit as it came floating up to the plate, but which resulted in an easy roller to the box which Bobby had plenty of time to throw to first.
That's so," remarked Pee Wee, who was too fat and too slow to play himself, but was an ardent rooter for the home team.
Slow as maple syrup when it's cooling," amended Sparrow.
She rocked a slow accompaniment to her dismal, prophecy.
Every man got his gun, all but the cook, and he looked at the rice, that hadn’t done a thing over the slow fire, in a way that would melt your heart.
They had several—I fear more than several—drinks before leaving for home, with never a trace of antelope nor a thought of the rice cooking over the slow fire.
By crossing and recrossing the tiny creeks that trickled slow and obstructed through the gaunt levels of plain and foot-hill, she had come by a direct route to the fringes of the pine country.
Men in any other condition of life would have died of slow poisoning as the result of it.
The words he put to it were his own story, just like those old minstrels that you read about, and at the end of each verse came the chorus, slow and solemn as the moment after something great has happened.
Didn’t Kellett’s aunt say the rice ought to be cooked over a slow fire?
She is as God meant us to be, happy and good, believing in the goodness of others, slow to find evil in them, quick to forgive it, infinitely pitiful of the sorrows of the suffering.
Every year meant a further very gradual, slow destruction of the pine forest.
Day after day an endless stream of food is entering the stem; night after night it is condensed and arranged and repacked, until, when the leaves fall, the period of slow and quiet preparation begins again.
Then by a very slow process of colonization, vegetation slowly and gradually crept over the trap-rock and rich mould and plant remains accumulated.
I suppose it came by slow steamer and is probably on the ocean still.
The really stirring poetry of science is not in guesses, or facile divinations about it, but in its larger ascertained truths--the order of infinite space, theslow method and vast results of infinite time.
If our motor had been too slow to commence with, it would have been 98 which first got into action, but the method of adjustment would have been precisely the same.
The slowpassage through the second tank is intended to give the particles time to settle.
While others, perchance the most unfortunate of all, are saved for a time, but, being imprisoned by falls from the roof and walls, die a lingering death of hunger and slow suffocation.
Sidenote: The Destroyer] After marriage, a great many women begin the slow process of alienating a man from his family, blind to the fact that by lessening his love for others, they add nothing to their own store.
Vanity permits a woman to insist that her combs and pins shall be real tortoise-shell, which is obtained from the quivering animal by roasting it alive before a slow fire.
If he meets a girl he likes, he proceeds at once to business and is slow indeed for his kind if he does not offer his hand and heart within a week.
The men who are thus sought in the bonds of matrimony are not slow to tell of it, confining themselves usually to their own particular circle of men friends.
It is the one thing which is absolutely just and which is universal in its action, though sometimes as slow as the majestic forces which change rock to dust.
