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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANHis wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINSo he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENDo not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINBut, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTAs Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSShe set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTWORDS RELATED TO SLOW DOWN
- bar
- block
- blow whistle on
- brake
- check
- clog
- close off
- cramp one's style
- curb
- cut off
- dam
- dead-end
- delay
- deter
- discomfit
- disconcert
- disrupt
- embarrass
- faze
- flag one
- freeze
- hamper
- hang up
- hold up
- interfere
- oppose
- rattle
- restrain
- retard
- saddle with
- shut down
- shut off
- slow
- slow down
- stonewall
- stop
- stymie
- thwart
- bars
- blocks
- blow whistle on
- brakes
- checks
- clogs
- close off
- cramps one's style
- curbs
- cuts off
- dams
- delays
- deters
- discomfits
- disconcerts
- disrupts
- embarrasses
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- flag one
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- hampers
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- holds up
- interferes
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- rattles
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- saddles with
- shuts down
- shuts off
- slows
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- stonewalls
- stops
- stymies
- thwarts
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- bum
- bum around
- dally
- dillydally
- do nothing
- dream
- drift
- evade
- fool around
- fritter away
- goldbrick
- hang out
- kill time
- knock around
- let down
- lie
- loaf
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- malinger
- not lift a finger
- pass time
- piddle
- relax
- saunter
- shirk
- sit around
- slack
- slow down
- stall
- stand around
- stroll
- take it easy
- trifle
- twiddle thumbs
- vegetate
- waste time
- while away hours
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- bum
- bum around
- dally
- dillydally
- dream
- drift
- evade
- fool around
- fritter away
- goldbrick
- hang out
- kill time
- knock around
- let down
- lie
- loaf
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- malinger
- not lift a finger
- pass time
- piddle
- relax
- saunter
- shirk
- sit around
- slack
- slow down
- stall
- stand around
- stroll
- take it easy
- trifle
- twiddle thumbs
- vegetate
- waste time
- while away hours
- abate
- abridge
- amputate
- attenuate
- become smaller
- clip
- close
- contract
- crop
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- de-escalate
- decline
- decrease
- degrade
- die down
- dilute
- diminish
- downsize
- drain
- dwindle
- ease
- erode
- grow less
- impair
- lighten
- minify
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- narrow
- roll back
- shrink
- slack up
- slacken
- slow down
- soft pedal
- take the bite out
- take the edge off
- take the sting out
- taper
- taper off
- thin
- truncate
- weaken
- wind down
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- bum
- bum around
- dally
- dillydally
- dream
- drift
- evade
- fool around
- fritter away
- goldbrick
- hang out
- idle
- kill time
- knock around
- laze
- let down
- lie
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- malinger
- not lift a finger
- pass time
- piddle
- relax
- saunter
- shirk
- sit around
- slack
- slow down
- stall
- stand around
- stroll
- take it easy
- trifle
- twiddle thumbs
- vegetate
- waste time
- while away hours
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