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How else explain the seeming slowness with which we were falling—the seeming leisureness with which the wall drifted up past us?

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

An extremely small boat soon detached itself from this pyrotechnical craft and came with a most extraordinary leisureness toward a white square of light that had somehow broken forth in the blackness of our side.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold