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musical tempo that is slow and dignified- "Nothing, Jean Louise," she said, in stately largo, "the cooks and field hands are just dissatisfied, but they're settling down now—they grumbled all next day after that trial."Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
largo = slow and dignified manner
- He told us that he was born at Largo, in the county of Fife, in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth.Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- I remember when I thought Largo was O.K. Durruti was good and his own people shot him there at the Puente de los Franceses.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- A series of eloquent largo passages begins to fill the hall.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- The girl with the face of a tapir played Handel's Largo on the violin, accompanied on the piano by the man from Mannheim.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- I put 'largo's scrap of newspaper in my pocket.John Green -- Paper Towns
- " Their baby voices shrilled out in Handel's "Largo" and they knew it merely by the title of "Hymn.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Of course, it didn't help that the TV stations played Key Largo on one channel and a documentary on the "Great Hurricane of 1935" on the other.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- But those other things—you're right, ma'am,—there ain't much—Robinson Crusoe and the Bible; and Handel's Largo, we all know that; and Whistler's Mother—those are just about as far as we go.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- I spent a day snorkeling above the endangered reefs off Key Largo and another firing off clips of ammunition at a shooting range with a two-time robbery victim who swore he would never be victimized again.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- I could never have imagined 'largo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over.John Green -- Paper Towns
- He watched Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- As the Choir gets into place, the CHURCH BELLS stop and an unseen ORGAN begins Handel's "Largo.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
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