Roark stood, his hands in his pockets, watching the man's slow, painful progress.

He preferred not to watch the old man's painful progress down the companionway.

The stream of prisoners was now too far below for them to see the details of its painful progress.

But the bouncing wagon made progress slow and painful.

Then she began her painful progress towards the door.

He watched Irthenie's painful progress up the chamber steps to ground level, then out the open doors.

We made painful progress, scarves tied round our faces to stop the dust from choking us.

Witness, for example, the painful progress toward better data collection.

Making slow and painful progress, Dan stopped often to rest and call for help.

He was moving with painful progress from one delicate, shining strand to another without a glimpse of the overall pattern.