Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Slowly
Slowly, as a man in doubt.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Slowly like one impelled by an unseen force.
—Agnes and Egerton Castle
It came on slowly, like a cloud when there is no wind.
—Charles Dickens
Slowly as shadows creep at set of sun.
—Julia C. R. Dorr
Works as slowly as old Doctor Time in curing folly.
—George Eliot
Her heart beat more and more slowly, more gently and uncertainly, like a spring which is growing exhausted, like an echo which is sinking away.
—Gustave Flaubert
Slowly, as falls a tear that slowly starts
From some great agony.
—Norman Gale
Slowly filling with life as a moon with silver.
—Richard Le Gallienne
Slowly, as when walking-beam first feels the gathering bead of steam.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sail, slowly as an icy isle
Upon a calm sea drifting.
—John Keats
He slowly moves, like a cloud of thunder, when the sultry plain of summer is silent and dark.
—Ossian
As slowly, as sadly, as a hare that the greyhounds have coursed drags itself through the grasses and ferns.
—Ouida
Slowly like the heave and roll of a glassy sea.
—John. C. Van Dyke