officers on horseback idling at snail's pace beside the carriages--wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols bobbing, fans swishing, negroes singing.
Between 1997, the first general election when they had official websites, and the last election in 2005, the main parties were improving their online activity at the same snail's pace.
Microsoft's proposal would slow spam down to a snail's pace.
Groundhogs spend the winter hibernating in a specially dug hibernation burrow, their breathing and heartbeats slowed to a snail's pace, their body temperatures not too far above freezing.
He does anything at at a snail's pace is really a slowcoach.
Lamps were already beginning to shine out, with passenger cars all about and the train moving at a snail's pace.
While we were on the road, holiday bumper-to-bumper traffic slowed us down to a snail's pace and a car accident the previous day made the congestion worse.
One reason for low efficiency is that organizations are overstaffed, and their work proceeds at a snail's pace.
Government organizations dealt with housing problems at a snail's pace.
After a flat tire, and a snail's paced survey, I retreat, finding a destroyed church, maybe a half mile from the beach.
Now their cars were moving at a snail's pace through the forest.
Executives with no pressing engagements in central Paris can stay outside the city and avoid the often appalling, snail's pace traffic between there and the Le Bourget showground.
When they were not standing still, drivers could advance at what literally approximated a snail's pace: ranging from one half kilometre to two kilometres per day.
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