We shall progress inch by inch.
It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.
The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
And the way Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes Not heard of for years at a time, did, Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise It was inside the house, And always getting narrower.
The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
