snail

Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.

The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.

The way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.

The green damp hung upon the low walls, and the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light; but all was still as death.

They were well-to-do folk and, according to Cesar Birotteau who knew them, old man Crottat was as "close as a snail."

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Aye, there it was, slowly winding up the steep white road, on which it seemed to move at a snail's pace.

And in some respects that something that looked so very much like a railway resembled not so much a snail as a snake.