If the crawling snailfinds food, wherefore do ye doubt, O!
Nay, there are some professors do not go on so fast in the way of God as a snail doth go on the wall; and yet these think, that heaven and happiness is for them.
The Snail sat there, and wondered and wondered that they did not come.
The Grasshoppers had been telling him about some very delicious new plants that grew a little distance away, and the Snail wanted some very badly.
One day, a Butterfly called some of her friends together, and told them that she had seen the Snail lying in his old place, looking thin and hungry.
The Butterflies and the Mosquitoes flew ahead to find the best place to put the Snail, and all the Grasshoppers, and Beetles, and other strong crawling creatures took turns in rolling the Snail down toward the river.
They all talked it over together, and some of them said it was of no use to help a Snail who was too lazy to do anything for himself.
Yes, and then I would have to keep starting on again every little while," theSnail would reply.
So I passed my hand over it, without thinking what I was doing, and where that patch was it was all sticky and slimy, as if a snail had crawled over it.
The amoeba and the snail have powers which we do not possess; and I thought it possible that the theory of reversion might explain many things which seem wholly inexplicable.
Half-way down the walk he paused, picked up a snail that had crawled out upon the distressful sand.
He dropped thesnail into the sheltering grass and went forward again.
Every garden-snail produces in one part of its sexual gland eggs, and in another sperm.
Every garden-snail produces in one part of its sexual gland eggs, and in another part sperm.
John Fry leaned forward in the saddle, and turned his eyes away from me; and then there was a noise in his throat like a snail crawling on a window-pane.
For the moment I stood like a root, without either hand or foot to help me, and the hair of my head began to crawl, lifting my hat, as a snail lifts his house; and my heart like a shuttle went to and fro.
THE SNAIL Little snail, little snail, With your hard, stony bed, First stick out your horns, Then stick out your head.
Oh joy to feel the soft breeze sigh And in the shady grove to wipe the eye, It makes me feel a man I know full well, But like a snail I'll now retire within my shell.
The snail burst its shell, grew arms and legs and became a handsome human being who wedded a beaver maiden.
The Osages are descended from the union between a snail and a beaver.
Wait till I have led the Snailto a place of safety.
I live in theSnail most of the summer, and in London in the winter.
I stood quite still, against an ivied wall, and watched an old thrush bring up a fat snail in her beak.
On the stone steps leading up to the red-walled garden lay the broken remains of many dusky shells of the monks' snails, or as the children call them here, "snail housen.
The common pond snail with the spiral shell, either flat or conical, can be found clinging to the stems of the cat-tails or flags and to floating rubbish in ponds or swamps.
If the aquarium is not too deep, this plant will grow above the surface and furnish a resting place for some snail which, tired perhaps by its constant activity, enjoys a few minutes in the open air.
The eggs of the snail are excellent food for fishes, and if a few could be secured for special study, their form, habits and development may be made delightful observation and drawing lessons.
There is small chance for the unsuspecting snail or water insect which comes within reach of the hungry jaws of the crawfish, and the temporary aquarium is the safest place for him.
Every little fish, snail and insect wants air, just as every boy and girl wants it.
They, however, thought the snail was preparing to attack them, and ran away so fast that they tumbled over the edge of an abyss.
Professor Snail adjusted his field-glass and examined the rampart critically.
Professor Snail put on his spectacles and examined it all around, and then climbed up and inspected the top.
By this time Professor Snail was making some telescopic inspections.
But Professor Snail and the others said: "You are hired to dig, sir--that is all.
Even moving-pictures of the snail or tortoise, generally considered to move very slowly, should never be photographed at a less speed, because these have actions which cannot be caught at sixteen pictures per second.
Rudiger von Gelern gave me a snail shell, together with coins of gold and silver, with an ort.
Heliciform: in the form of a spiral snail shell: applied to the cases of some Trichoptera.
When they had done talking, the old warrior came up to the son of the snail and asked him, in an altered tone, to go home with him to his cabin.
Why does he who is the kernel of the snail look terrified, and why is be faint and weary?
What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens?
But now his mind must be forever like the track of the snail in the dust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
