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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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