Slowly Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Slowly


Slowly, as a man in doubt. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1
Slowly like one impelled by an unseen force. —Agnes and Egerton Castle	2
It came on slowly, like a cloud when there is no wind. —Charles Dickens	3
Slowly as shadows creep at set of sun. —Julia C. R. Dorr	4
Works as slowly as old Doctor Time in curing folly. —George Eliot	5
Her heart beat more and more slowly, more gently and uncertainly, like a spring which is growing exhausted, like an echo which is sinking away. —Gustave Flaubert	6
Slowly, as falls a tear that slowly starts From some great agony. —Norman Gale	7
Slowly filling with life as a moon with silver. —Richard Le Gallienne	8
Slowly, as when walking-beam first feels the gathering bead of steam. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	9
Sail, slowly as an icy isle Upon a calm sea drifting. —John Keats	10
He slowly moves, like a cloud of thunder, when the sultry plain of summer is silent and dark. —Ossian	11
As slowly, as sadly, as a hare that the greyhounds have coursed drags itself through the grasses and ferns. —Ouida	12
Slowly like the heave and roll of a glassy sea. —John. C. Van Dyke	13