Now, everyone knows Brad Anderson likes his bleakness- THE MACHINIST is as close an argument for suicide as possible- so perhaps the relentless snail-pace for the opening 45 minutes is intentional. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At this snail-pace I'm going at, it'll probably take me another 10,000 light years to get everything right. ❋ Babycartercl (2008)
The patience of the Ugandan government seems to have run out over the snail-pace of talks which it has accused the LRA of deliberately delaying. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"This snail-pace movement only perpetuates and entrenches the racial and gender disparities that exist in the South African economy," commission chairman Jimmy Manyi wrote in the foreword to the report. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You might get treated to a special extended snail-pace tour through impossibly congested streets and alleys. ❋ Unknown (2007)
To us it was wholly incredible how, in that dim remoteness, it could still hold true to the central force and follow at a snail-pace, yet with unvarying exactitude, its stupendous orbit. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She sighed, knowing that this snail-pace approach demanded a lot of patience and time. ❋ Karr, Leona (1999)
In that snail-pace country, where any pursuit was sure to be on foot, no one could hope to overtake us, no alarm could outstrip us - I was ready to whoop in my saddle until I thought of that menacing presence still so close, that awful city crouching just behind us, and I shook Elspeth's bridle and sent us forward at a hand-gallop. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
Sometimes the snail-pace would be accelerated; our hopes would then expand, only to collapse again with a bang. ❋ Albert Rhys Williams (1922)
Unknown to the old dog, these walks had been shortened, mercifully, and slowed down, to accommodate themselves to Lad's waning strength: But the time came when even a half-mile, at snail-pace, over a smooth road, was too much for his wind and endurance. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
The English lane was made for the leisurely meandering of cows to and from pasture, for the dreamy snail-pace of time-forgetting lovers, for children gathering primroses or wild strawberries, or for the knap-sacked wayfarer to whom time and space are no objects, whose destination is anywhere and nowhere, whose only clocks are the rising sun and the evening star, and to whom the way means more than the goal. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
And so all the interminable hours of the hot afternoon that snail-pace flight and pursuit kept on. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
The work of demobilization, which began soon after the armistice, but was early interrupted, proceeded at snail-pace. ❋ Emile Joseph Dillon (1894)
Glaciers are sometimes hurried out of their characteristic snail-pace. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Still on and on at a snail-pace, up and over the almost interminable stretch of Fisher's ❋ Unknown (1873)
It was hard to bring the comprehension away down to such a snail-pace as that, when we had been used to making eight and ten miles an hour. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
