Usage note: low gear implies the first sense, a low gear implies the second.
low gear
a low gear
It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.
They had gone but a fevv ſteps, before there came a violent ſhovver of hail; and the vvind, vvhich vvas very high, being immediately in their faces, Cecilia vvas ſo pelted and incommoded, that ſhe vvas frequently obliged to ſtop, in defiance of her utmoſt efforts to force herſelf forvvard.
When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.
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