Something moved-a slow , slow shifting-there on his left.

A cellar-dark slow shifting of bricks, perhaps, or some slow but minded movement amidst heaps of black coal.

Matthew thought it had been the creaking of a board, or the slow shifting of something that would not be seen.

If I had comprehended his meaning involuntarily I would have obeyed, but luckily my brain has a slow shifting language gear.

It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

But the slow shifting of the spark in his sleepy eyes indicated to those who observed closely that he heard but kept his own counsel.