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Snail-like   Listen
adjective
Snail-like  adj.  Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Snail-like" Quotes from Famous Books



... of an advanced KRIYA YOGI is influenced, not by effects of past actions, but solely by directions from the soul. The devotee thus avoids the slow, evolutionary monitors of egoistic actions, good and bad, of common life, cumbrous and snail-like to the eagle hearts. ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... had three tubes or channels of right pearl, seated in three equilateral angles already mentioned, extended on the margin, and those channels proceeded in a snail-like line, winding equally ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... in Manila. Great changes had taken place in the harbor, new breakwaters were where there had been none before, new buildings were up, and still more were building. Big electric cars rushed along where formerly the snail-like horse cars crept painfully by. The city was unbelievably clean and the main streets were full of ...
— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon

... it has been called, but in misery's name, I ask, must the whole public crowd into one coach? Yesterday, after I had waited for a car the best part of the forenoon, it came crawling along at snail-like pace, the horses fast asleep, and the driver gazing vacantly into space, thoroughly exhausted in endeavors to wake ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 35, November 26, 1870 • Various



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