slow-crawling

He said goodbye to the slow-crawling streets of Adamsville, Tennessee.

The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser Morris, W. R. 1971

As we gazed over the valley we saw to the left a line of slow-crawling tanks.

The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man William Benjamin West

Presidio woods, blew at their back down the short block of pavement, and buffeted them, broadside, as they waited on the corner for the slow-crawling little car.

The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

A sunflower! cry all the little goldfish, splashing mightily as they dodge out of the way of the slow-crawling turtles who first drew Clyte to the shore.

Flower Stories 1903

While, above all that, high uplifted against the opacity of the starless sky, a blood-red beacon burned on the summit of Vesuvius, the sombre glow of it reflected upon the underside of the masses of downward-rolling smoke as upon the belly of some slow-crawling, monstrous serpent.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

Eight weeks passed by, and then the _Eagle_, a slow-crawling old ex-collier, which did duty as a mail and passenger steamer, entered the port, and Danvers, jauntier and handsomer than ever, stepped ashore and took up his old quarters at Manton's Hotel.

The Trader's Wife 1901 Louis Becke 1884

Greenland, Antarctica, and some of those of our own Alaska, are still being fashioned beneath a slow-crawling mantle of ice, from a quarter of a mile to probably more than a mile in thickness, presenting noble illustrations of the ancient condition of California, when its sublime scenery lay hidden in process of formation.

The Yosemite John Muir 1876

For ever crumbling, altering with frost and rain, discharging gloomy glaciers of slow-crawling mud, and scarring the hillside with tracts of barrenness, these earth-precipices are among the most ruinous and discomfortable failures of nature.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

For ever crumbling, altering with frost and rain, discharging gloomy glaciers of slow-crawling mud, and scarring the hillside with tracts of barrenness, these earth-precipices are among the most ruinous and discomfortable failures of nature.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Yet it is the fall-out from a slow-crawling corruption case that could prove more wounding.

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