But, he slowly accumulated money and friends, married an American and found a home in Hartford.
"I took our dirty clothes and hid them under our bed, where they slowly accumulated," she wrote.
So it is an enormous shame that the novel's second half squanders in quick moments what was slowly accumulated in the first half's careful pages.
However, it had slowly accumulated cult status under the radar, and finally got a movie follow-up, Tron Legacy, almost 30 years later.
Thick deposits of sand and mud, 11,000 metres (36,000 feet) deep and often stained red by oxidized iron minerals present, slowly accumulated in these sinking basins.
It is thought that the oxygen content in today's atmosphere must have slowly accumulated through time starting with an atmosphere that was anoxic during Archean times.
If only so you could afford a bigger room... 59 min: Ireland 6 - 20 England Like a game of five-hour game of Risk, England slowly accumulated more and more territory, without threatening to finish the game.
Over centuries, because of its location against the outer rocks of an island and the unusual currents, layers and layers of silt and sand slowly accumulated around and on top of the ship.
