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Meanings of painful slowness in English

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Usage of painful slowness in English
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The enemy dwindled with painful slowness as the generals called out the mark.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
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Remaining in the deepest shadows Levet moved with near painful slowness.
Embrace the darkness
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His heart was thudding with painful slowness, like a muffled drum.
Salem’s Lot
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I waited for the finish, which came with painful slowness.
My Tropic Isle
5
With painful slowness they crept along until they reached Mount Margaret, the first station.
The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
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After a moment of silence, she replied, with painful slowness:
The Red Lily — Volume 02
7
He was pointing it, with painful slowness, towards him.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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So this time he had started with almost painful slowness, moving like an old man.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
9
Moving with painful slowness I began Dance Backwards.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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He counted them up with painful slowness, speaking each name deliberately, as if calling the roll.
My Lady of the North
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It was like watching someone doing tai chi, the painful slowness of that trio of paces.
The Great Book of Amber
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The day goes by with painful slowness.
The King’s Curse
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Ash looked at the doors, which still closed with painful slowness, then back to the three knights.
The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
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The last few inches to the wall of the tepee were crawled with painful slowness and precaution.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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If the people as a whole learn wisdom by experience, they seem to learn with painful slowness.
Monopolies and the People
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They waited in tormented patience as the fortune-teller creaked and crutched, with painful slowness, into the darkness.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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Painful slowness through the time
Painful slowness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common