sluggishly

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Sluggishly they threw the golden ears over their shoulders to the ground, where it was collected by the women and carried to the shed on the beach—a long roof of leaves, without walls.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix

Sluggishly enough Lanyard pieced together fragments of lurid memories, reconstructing the sequence of last night's events scene by scene to the moment of his rescue by the U-boat.

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph

Sluggishly in my dead frame fluttered a something.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

Sluggishly it revolved, as upon an axis, and then, in the grip of a random cross-current, swung heavily shoreward.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

Sluggishly day limped closer, smashing the remains of the night with an iron crutch.

From The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein by Lichtenstein, Alfred