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snail-paced, a.
[snail n.1]
1. Slow, sluggish, or tardy in pace, progress, or motion; slothful, slow-moving. Also fig.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iii. 53 Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery. 1606― Tr. & Cr. v. v. 18 Goe..bid the snaile-pac'd Aiax arme for shame. 1646W. Jenkyn Remora 9 Doth that winged speed..deserve a snail-paced Reformation? 1770Armstrong Misc. I. 154 Thus they lash on The snail-pac'd Hyperborean nights. 1862C. Rossetti Goblin Market, etc. 6 The whisk-tailed merchant bade her taste In tones as smooth as honey,..and the snail⁓paced even was heard. 1874J. Robertson in Gordon Life xv. (1908) 117 We left here..with a snail-paced horse.
2. Marked or characterized by tardiness, slowness, or sluggishness.
1601Chester Love's Martyr, etc. (1878) 123 Snaile-paced gate. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 25 In very scorn Of our dull, uninspired, snail-paced lives. |