ponderously
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Ponderously it lifted itself off the pad�one foot, two feet, three feet.
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Ponderously one Berlin editorialist wrote : "The announcement that Lewis will hand the money over to a ... poor American writer is ... an unprecedentedly magnanimous action."
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Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham.
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Ponderously Barkley said what he had to say.
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Ponderously, slowly, she settled; held aloft by the pillars of flame beneath her, directly above the junction, fusing the sand in the canals to glass, exploding their walls with steam.
From We're Civilized! by Apostolides, Alex