Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Slow
Slow as a plumber going for his tools.
—Anonymous
Slow as cold molasses.
—Anonymous
Slow as molasses in January.
—Anonymous
Slow as the hand on clock’s face.
—Robert Buchanan
Slow as the white cloud in the sky.
—Robert Buchanan
Slow, like water-lilies floating down a rill.
—Lord Byron
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
Slow as minor friars on sacred errands go.
—Dante
Slow-swelling like God’s thunder underground.
—Euripides
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
Slow as old Saturn through prodigious space.
—Francis Fawkes
Slow as an oak
To woodman’s stroke.
—Richard Garnett
Slow, like the tired heaving of a grief-worn breast.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Slow, as the strokes of a pump.
—Thomas Hood
Slow, like a bell.
—Victor Hugo
Slow as a worm.
—Rudyard Kipling
Exact and slow
Like wooden monarchs at a puppet show.
—Robert Lloyd
Slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
—Henry W. Longfellow
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
Slow as lawyers mount to heaven.
—Charles Reade
Slow as the snail.
—Samuel Rogers
Hobbled slow as a broken-winded mare.
—Sir Walter Scott
Seldome and slowe, like the scantye droppes of a fountaine neare a drye.
—Caroline Southey
Slowlier than life into breath … it moves.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne