move at snail's pace

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They move at snail's pace, perhaps two miles an hour, and take maybe eight weeks to make the trip across the desert.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball

The noble animals were at their highest speed and doing their utmost, but to Peggy they seemed to move at snail’s pace.

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster