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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Slow
 
  Slow as a plumber going for his tools.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Slow as cold molasses.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Slow as molasses in January.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Slow as the hand on clock’s face.
            —Robert Buchanan		  4
  Slow as the white cloud in the sky.
            —Robert Buchanan		  5
  Slow, like water-lilies floating down a rill.
            —Lord Byron		  6
A voice as soft and slow
As might proceed from angel’s tongue
If angel’s heart were sorrow-wrung,
And wish’d to speak its woe.
            —Robert Chambers		  7
  Slow as minor friars on sacred errands go.
            —Dante		  8
  Slow-swelling like God’s thunder underground.
            —Euripides		  9
Slow as at Oxford, on some gaudy day,
Fat beadles, in magnificent array,
With big bellies bear the ponderous treat
And heavily lag on, with the vast loady meat.
            —Francis Fawkes		  10
  Slow as old Saturn through prodigious space.
            —Francis Fawkes		  11
Slow as an oak
To woodman’s stroke.
            —Richard Garnett		  12
  Slow, like the tired heaving of a grief-worn breast.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  13
  Slow, as the strokes of a pump.
            —Thomas Hood		  14
  Slow, like a bell.
            —Victor Hugo		  15
  Slow as a worm.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  16
                Exact and slow
Like wooden monarchs at a puppet show.
            —Robert Lloyd		  17
                Slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  18
It goes slow, comes slow, like a big mill-wheel
On some broad stream, with long green weeds a-sway,
And soft and slow it rises and it falls,
Still going onward.
            —William Morris		  19
  Slow as lawyers mount to heaven.
            —Charles Reade		  20
  Slow as the snail.
            —Samuel Rogers		  21
  Hobbled slow as a broken-winded mare.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  22
  Seldome and slowe, like the scantye droppes of a fountaine neare a drye.
            —Caroline Southey		  23
  Slowlier than life into breath … it moves.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  24
 
 
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