They do not travel by night, for their blood slows as the air cools.
After a time, the blood slowed to a trickle.
His blood slowed, by instinct alone, to a pudding in his chest.
Most simply lost consciousness, as their breath and blood slowed and Russian security troops began to surge through the theater.
The blood was already slowing; he would not lose much more.
The blood in his veins slowed to a crawl, as if some medusa's touch from Petraveil had begun to turn him to stone.
Was she imagining it, or did the blood, which had trickled like glossy ribbons through her fingers, seem to be slowing?
Tom's heart paused: his blood slowed in his veins.
For a moment the blood slowed to a trickle.
The blood from his shoulder slowed as his neck began to spurt.