Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange events conspired in sea-sleepy Portsmouth. Eliphalet sent the boy Jervaile to kill Parton in a tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with...
...spite of the very slow progress, the Committee members are no means discouraged as to the final results of their drive and believe the subscription will come up to their expection with an extra day to make their appeal...
Moved northwest from the naked shore, the moon moved to meridian, the slow pulse of the ocean...
Beat, the slow tide came in across the slippery stones; it drowned the dead mare's muzzle and sluggishly...
...looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...