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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