go on slowly
Example Sentences
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The transvaluation of values that is now in progress will go on slowly and for a very long while.
From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
"Ver' goot; get in mit me," replied the Baron, ordering the coachman to go on slowly to the Arc de l'Etoile.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
They are indeed a careful sort of reading, and chiefly require common-placing, and that makes the work go on slowly.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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
We go on slowly, but so far very harmoniously, in Congress.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe