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  • Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow-spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

    C.S. Lewis on Paradisal Man 2010

  • The only person who understood was her brother Edgar, a kind, humorous, slow-spoken character whose deceptively bluff manner concealed a keen analytical intelligence and a sharp wit.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • The only person who understood was her brother Edgar, a kind, humorous, slow-spoken character whose deceptively bluff manner concealed a keen analytical intelligence and a sharp wit.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • The men were mostly Frisians, slow-spoken, sandy-haired lads, very like the breed you strike on the Essex coast.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • The news: The paper's London correspondent Sarah Lyall flies to New York to tell the world, "In the throes of some early media stardom that seems guaranteed only to escalate, Mr. Eggers comes across as quizzical, friendly and very slow-spoken."

    Steve Forbes Loses One More Time: His Brother Tim Takes Over Forbes 1999

  • The news: The paper's London correspondent Sarah Lyall flies to New York to tell the world, "In the throes of some early media stardom that seems guaranteed only to escalate, Mr. Eggers comes across as quizzical, friendly and very slow-spoken."

    Steve Forbes Loses One More Time: His Brother Tim Takes Over Forbes 1999

  • The son of Japanese immigrants, Kumasaka, 53, was patient, slow-spoken and deliberate, the glue of the organization.

    Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993

  • Often enough she had longed to be able to touch, just once, the strange creatures whose wisdom and slow-spoken hearts and inner beauty had long since turned one more liaison job into first friendship, then love.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Often enough she had longed to be able to touch, just once, the strange creatures whose wisdom and slow-spoken hearts and inner beauty had long since turned one more liaison job into first friendship, then love.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Often enough she had longed to be able to touch, just once, the strange creatures whose wisdom and slow-spoken hearts and inner beauty had long since turned one more liaison job into first friendship, then love.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

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