My steps were snail-like as I headed back up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds of Yesterday]
I kept my family informed about my snail-like quilting progress. From Wordnik.com. [Quilts Are Forever] Reference
But Turkey isn't willing to proceed at Brussels 'snail-like pace. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Stumbles] Reference
Water was still over the track and we proceeded at a snail-like pace. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
And when his brother laughingly chid him for his snail-like creeping. From Wordnik.com. [Huon of the Horn]
I am an optimist, she laughs when asked about the snail-like pace of funding. From Wordnik.com. [UN Women's head Michelle Bachelet: A new superhero?] Reference
Then she inched her tray, snail-like, along the metal rail toward the cutlery racks. From Wordnik.com. [Everything but the Truth] Reference
In that case, Congress's snail-like pace on overhaul may prove a blessing in disguise. From Wordnik.com. [Bank Delay Could Pay Dividends] Reference
I force snail-like to my morning window where sunrise now burns glass shards and paint peel. From Wordnik.com. [Great Regulars: Brick walls dust sidewalks] Reference
Sometimes it felt nippy and responsive; other times, a bit snail-like and slow to accelerate. From Wordnik.com. [Double Bonus « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Top MPH of 50, which they're complaining about as being snail-like, but I think it sounds awesome. From Wordnik.com. [holy cow] Reference
The Acarnanians, owing to the snail-like progress of the enemy, were lulled into a sense of security. From Wordnik.com. [Hellenica] Reference
And to top it all off, the forecast for revenue growth for the year would be a snail-like 5 to 8 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Dicey Days At AOL Time Warner, and New C.E.O. Dick Parsons Is the Man for Them] Reference
All were received by post operating at the snail-like pace of the international mails of two decades ago. From Wordnik.com. [Three Decades of African Popular Theater] Reference
As a result, she expects the FTTH deployment to be slower than the normally snail-like pace of Baby Bells. From Wordnik.com. [DSL will save the Bells?] Reference
How they reviled the snail-like leaders, not knowing that the sturdy pace lagged in the body of the multitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
He said when No. 21 left Truxton, Roberts proceeded at a snail-like pace, keeping a sharp lookout for a wash out. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Horns of this shape form a strong contrast to those with snail-like windings and points standing away from the body. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
And so it came about that Cuffy journeyed in foreign parts, bearing with him, snail-like, all that stood to him for home. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
October 13 if significant progress has been made in the country's snail-like peace process, the Portuguese news agency LUSA reported. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
On the other side of the conduit, Pak planted her second foot carefully beside her first, and took up her snail-like shuffling again. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
It proved a machine of the most wheezy and helpless character, creeping snail-like on levels, and requiring the men to leave the carriages to help it up grades. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Already it had began to lower and as the sailors advanced with snail-like slowness the heavy white fog settled down, filling the canyon with its white opaqueness. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Quite suddenly I saw a very small black object moving with snail-like slowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
The manner in which those liberated girls skipped down to the laundry was certainly not snail-like. From Wordnik.com. [Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life] Reference
It was a painfully laborious task to accomplish even a snail-like progress through the dark passage. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
Slow at best, their advance now became snail-like, for darkness had fallen, and threatened to blot them out. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
Not that its 9.4 second 0-60 time is totally snail-like but a sub-six performance would be so much more satisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog Green] Reference
In ascending the river it was a continued series of toil, rendered more irksome by the snail-like rate at which they moved. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
I could not observe that we had drifted anything to the north, whilst our set to the westwards had been steady though snail-like. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
Some little worm-shaped masses of clear jelly containing specks are fastened to the stick: eggs of a small snail-like shell-fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Again he sat; and again Nell elbowed him importantly, and his mother in her snail-like wrappings, came creeping in to remind Nell. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
These packet-boats make up for their snail-like pace by never loitering day nor night, especially for those who have paid their fare. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference
To the last drop he drank it, then hugging the bottle to his shirt-front, he moved snail-like to his chair, and fell back into its depths. From Wordnik.com. [Five Tales] Reference
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