go on slowly

Example Sentences

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There was no longer any necessity for such headlong speed—he could go on slowly now—the goal was near, and would not fly as he approached.

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten

The press will go on slowly for a time, because I am going into Wales to-morrow.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

I told Bill to go on slowly with the deer meat, and I would go and get the trap and set it for the cat.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

A class should go on slowly, and dwell on details, so long as to fix firmly, and make perfectly familiar, whatever they undertake to learn.

From The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Abbott, Jacob

I could go on slowly as long as my knees had any bend in them; after that I should be powerless.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by Ferryman, A. F. Mockler