How To Use Slimy In A Sentence
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The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
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They include worm charming where two teams compete to entice the slimy creatures out of the ground.
The Sun
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I've worked hard for what I have and I don't want it taken away by some slimy business partner.
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
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She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind.
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The vegetable dumplings, in contrast, were almost inedible, with a slimy exterior and no discernible flavour.
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The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water.
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Drake - unbelievably - spit at Quin, who managed to dodge the slimy gob.
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Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg
We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
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Even a satirist ought to be able to beat a skirt-chaser and possible wife-beater* like Slimy Norman (Quimby) Coleman.
Franken Apologizes For Writing "Porn-O-Rama" Essay In Playboy
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Up close they are really interesting and even pretty but most eyes find them to be just slimy gunge that needs to be gotten rid off…And, of course, there are the moss lovers that create their growth with spoiled milk/yogurt.
More Moss Magic « Fairegarden
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“How are you guys planning on winning when only 20-25% of the population identify themselves as republicans?” they plan on having slimy sarah creampie palin hitting the campaign trail for the repugnantscum candidates.
Think Progress » Cornyn Flip Flops On Whether He’s ‘Interested In Repealing’ Popular Parts Of Health Reform
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He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter.
The Water Baby
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I had been using different brands of oil reducers, and they all made my face feel slimy - yuck!
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The term would denote either a limax or a helix, which are particularly noticeable for the slimy track they leave behind them, by which they seem to waste themselves away.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder.
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You know, it was bad enough when I thought you were another Shadowhunter and youd turned your back on her because of some stupid Shadowhunter vow or something, but now I know youre just a slimy Downworlder who didnt even care that all those years she treated you like a friendlike an equaland this is how you paid her back!
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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But the trunks of the trees were slimy green and cold to touch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether looking at a slimy whale taste bud or a forest of pink jellyfish, there is no shortage of eye candy.
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A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces.
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About the tenth day, the discharge, which up to that time had been only sanious and serous, showed a slight admixture of slimy pus; and this increased till (a few days before I left) it amounted to about three drachms in twenty-four hours.
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Those cultures farthest from the well-fed bacteria on the rightmost side of the plate were least slimy and least pink.
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Instead of a simple "No," she took a page from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's slimy playbook, averring "I take him Obama at his word.
Michael Sigman: Note to GOP: Sometimes an Opinion Isn't Just an Opinion
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Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky.
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Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy.
ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
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I'm clearly not up on my aliens, but I must say, any alien with a goopy, slimy podlike thing sends me under the covers scared.
MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction
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It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.
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a slimy little liar
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I still don't like certain sorts of plants much because of the fear of that programme - red tipped slimy looking specimens terrify me!
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On family holidays he crept into caves and hollow trees and played with their slimy interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Consequently, there was a slimy, slippery area right at the entrance to the main operating room.
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She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers.
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Larger and deeper lakes, with oxygenated hypolimnions, will also have one or two larger salmonids, usually lake trout or landlocked Atlantic salmon, along with burbot and slimy sculpin.
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He pushed himself away from the car, splaying out his arms and sinking his fingers into the slimy mud.
Gideon’s war
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He stood up painfully and slithered across the slimy floor, slipping on the fish that had scattered from the broken boxes.
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Waves thick with slimy oil bear down on pristine beaches from Texas to Florida.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elaborately he swung back his buskined foot, aimed and planted a kick in the middle of the inert body, with force enough to drive it a handsbreadth across the slimy floor.
Conan The Warlord
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Strapping it around his waist, he took two globs of slimy substance and pasted them onto the doors.
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Hyde tried to struggle upright, his chin slimy with saliva, and the slaughterman pushed him back on to the straw, nodding.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Nor did he have an ingratiating, slimy, or arrogant manner.
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They had sprouted from buried wood in the vegetable garden and sported livid blue-green, slimy caps.
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It is green, slimy and smells of rotten eggs.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, here's this slimy, large guy--he wore a very tight collar with a tie all the time, so his jowls were hanging down over it--it was an interesting impression he made.
Mike Ragogna: Greetings From...: Chatting with Less Than Jake's Vinnie Fiorello and Singer-Songwriter/Actor Bill Mumy
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This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
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What's green and slimy and could revitalise hospital food?
Times, Sunday Times
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The walls are black and slimy with lichen and pigeon shit.
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He wasn't slimy or anything, just had an attitude that grated on my nerves.
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His feet slipped in the slimy mud.
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I knew from experience that before you went swimming off a dock for the first time each summer, you needed to check the sides and the ladder carefully for bryozoa, colonies of slimy green critters that grew on hard surfaces underwater think coral, but gelatinous—shudder.
The Boys Next Door
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Upon entering my MIL's house we noticed a huge bowl on her dining room table with unsavory looking brown water and a slimy kind of grayish white thing floating in it.
George Burns Had It Right - SpouseBUZZ
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
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The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
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In fact, the creamy white flesh is barely edible; it's tasteless and slimy.
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You cut off one slimy social, economic or political head and two grow back in its place.
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I mean, there must have been thousands of people in this world biding their time until they could get their own back on that slimy nyaff, and now these four clowns have gone and spoiled it for everybody.
Country of the Blind
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I just got back from a weekend in boston where slimy sarah teatard hero is scheduled to speak on the 14th.
Think Progress » Idaho man fired shotgun into air to intimidate Census worker.
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Using a pestle and mortar keeps the texture grainy and avoids making a slimy emulsion.
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Then she screamed - the first scream of her adult life - as a slimy mixture of grease, muck and dirt poured out over her ankles.
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There is always hope of reform for a dull, uneducated, stolid man, led by accident or temptation into guilt; but where a man of great ability, and highly educated, besots himself in the intoxication of dark and terrible excitements, takes impure delight in tortuous and slimy ways, the good angel abandons him forever.
Lucretia — Complete
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It is limbless, snake-like, slimy and almost impossible to hold.
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish
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The seaweed felt cold and slimy.
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The water flows over slimy rock that tilts the wrong way: down to the canyon.
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He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs.
Songs of Love & Death
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Although snakes look slimy their skin is actually dry to the touch.
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He and I will be having good, clean slimy malacological fun for many years to come.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Larger and deeper lakes, with oxygenated hypolimnions, will also have one or two larger salmonids, usually lake trout or landlocked Atlantic salmon, along with burbot and slimy sculpin.
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And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
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The water was now running in, submerging first one slab of slimy rock and then another, and the four men in the boat -- the workmen, that is, the boatman, and Mr. Fison -- now turned their attention from the bearings off shore to the water beneath the keel.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms.
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On family holidays he crept into caves and hollow trees and played with their slimy interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The thing was so slimy I think the goo will stick to my boots forever.
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Normal urine from the horse may be turbid or cloudy and more or less slimy, because of the presence of mucin.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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a slimy substance covered the rocks
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Bill Murray, as the local undertaker who'd be a slimy salesman if he weren't so existentially exhausted, is there to assist in the proceedings.
Sundance Review: ‘Get Low’ Starring Bill Murray And Robert Duvall » MTV Movies Blog
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And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
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You' re a slimy, pukey piece of shit!
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Only a few stinking, slimy bubbles emerged from its mouth, burst into flames, and dripped downwards in pyric drool.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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They are gooey and slimy and wet and horrible and yucky and revolting.
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It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of _viscus_, It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled parasitical, as being hangers-on or dependants.
Types of Children's Literature
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This is how big ideas are born, with loads of blood and afterbirth and slimy stuff gushing from my man-cooze.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : People say I’m obnoxious and self-centered, but frankly I just don’t see it
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Every auto buying experience I've had involved the worst kind of back-stabbing slimy salesmen until now.
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Iowa City was one of many communities that planted ginkgoes in the 1970s only to discover that after years without problems, some of the trees can begin dropping large seed shells, creating a sticky, slimy, smelly mess.
Laudator Temporis Acti
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The Mariner's conceptuality is resonant in the sliminess of "a million million slimy things" (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), 4.230); a register picked up again in Sartre's disturbingly phobic Being and Nothingness (601-15) .13
'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
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It has also been suggested that it reduces soil mechanical impedance by means of its secretion of slimy mucilage and by the sloughing of border cells.
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The steep, slimy furrows might be an image of the surface of your brain, covered by the infected membrane.
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It felt cold and slimy where the minerals left a residue on the skin.
The Crossing-Place
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Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy.
Robin Lakoff: Cutting to the Chase
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She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips.
We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
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Mr. Mixson went on to tell me the feral pigs were almost swimming in mud that was covered in slimy green algae.
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Before, she had been just as willing as Ashira was to go into the muddy pigpen or the dirty stables or the smelly, slimy swamp.
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Look for seeds rotted in the soil that are soft and slimy to the touch or overgrown with other fungi and bacteria, giving the seed a fuzzy appearance.
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Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes.
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On yonder distant shore blazed the mighty Empire of the Sun in warm and blissful radiance, while on this side, in shadows cold and dark, gloomed the Hither Isles and the hill that once was golden, but now was green and slimy dross; all below was the sad and moaning sea, while between the Here and There flew the severed hand and dripped the bleeding heart.
DARKWATER
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It was nice to shower in a tub he'd cleaned himself, instead of those truck-stop showers, which always felt kind of clammy and slimy and fungusy.
Homebody
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In fact, it took me quite a while to bring myself to eat one and I recall screeching in disgust and saying ‘No, mum, it looks like slimy eyeballs!’
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Here and across Europe it is the same: noisome, slimy things have crawled out of the sewers to oppress liberty and the human spirit.
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The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water.
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A yard offshore, a shelf of slimy green rock lay just beneath the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fail to get the balance of ingredients right and you will end up with a slimy, smelly mess rather than the rich, crumbly mulch that is the sign of good compost.
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March 24th, 2010 at 4: 22 pm linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says: they plan on having slimy sarah creampie palin hitting the campaign trail for the repugnantscum candidates.
Think Progress » Cornyn Flip Flops On Whether He’s ‘Interested In Repealing’ Popular Parts Of Health Reform
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I do not want this adulter man to run our country again and I think it is a terrible thing that we have a woman so close to becoming president and – I can't even respect her for all the times she has let her slimy husband walk all over her.
Campaigning in Kentucky, Clinton hears sermon on infidelity
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Unfortunately as the sun warmed up the ground the nice crunchy surface turned into gloopy mud and when I got over the top of Harbour Hill, I found the downhill slope covered in patches of snow broken up by slimy, slippy glaur.
Cosmonauts Tereshkova and Sharman
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A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside.
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A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces.
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The shade from the lily pads and the maple was sufficient to keep down the slimy blanket weed that was threatening to fill the pond earlier in the season.
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This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
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Now testing of 225 H need not be dependent on these slimy creatures.
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After the hair and fat had been removed, the tanner had to prevent the pelt from stiffening or rotting in one of several ways, as up to this point, it is white and very slimy and should be referred to as raw-hide.
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What I assumed was a horror thriller quickly became a yawner with endless debates about opening a slimy, frozen alien pod, or not opening a slimy, frozen alien pod.
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Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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I couldn't eat hardly a mouthful these days for picterin 'my pretty lyin' in the mud at the bottom of that slimy, smellin 'canal, "whined Perry, wiping her eyes on the corner of a much-betrimmed white apron.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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When she realizes she's in a swamp, instead of digging on the slimy critters with all their crazy ribbits, she freaks out.
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The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
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The walls of the streamway were covered in slimy mud and the water was dark and cloudy with peat.
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He suddenly lost his footing in the slimy mud and fell down to his knees, landing at the feet of the other man.
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He could not claim to be acting on behalf of the Police Judiciaire, and, anyway, who was to know whether anyone in this village surrounded by slimy marshes and stagnant water had even heard the name Maigret?
Maigret's Rival
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I think people are fascinated by these slimy weird monsters of the deep.
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I'll give you one last chance to surrender, you slimy Kylothian invertebrate ," Kay snarled, his voice barely above a whisper.
MEN IN BLACK II©: THE MOVIE NOVEL
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And as I demonstrated when I dropped one into the bucket, a hagfish can exude from its skin a substance so slimy and so plenteous it seems supernatural.
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We crawled forward through the slimy, mucky, mass.
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There were no cockled tin gutters here to catch the moisture trickling down the walls, the floor was green and slimy with two hundred years of it.
Tour de Force
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One may travel for league after league along this slimy water and make head for days and weeks against its current -- which glides everlastingly past the dahabiya, in little hurrying waves -- without seeing this warm, fecundating river, compared with which our rivers of France are mere negligible streams, either diminish or increase or hasten.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
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And if you carry the peel with you, you've got to deal with a slippery, slimy wet thing.
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Many human beings are under the deplorable mistake of supposing we live on slimy water and dirty insects – ha, ha, ha! whereas our cuisine is astounding in variety and delicacy of material and flavour.
The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance
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I was still sniggering quietly when something slimy hit me in the head.
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It's the same in the bilges and engine room, the chain locker, the staterooms, bridge and captain's quarters, just mounds of slimy, grey-green mud.
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The dull grey concrete of the flats was coated in a layer of thick slimy mould and the windows were encrusted with smog fumes.
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They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion.
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In the animal cell there are many things the instruction manuel is the DNA protein factory is the ribosome recycling center is the lysosome gift wrapping and shipping center is the golgi complex DNA is stored and maintains in the nucleus (x) the mitochondria converts glucose into usable energy tokens tubes and fibers make the cytoskeleton the flexible outer skin is the cell membrane the smooth endoplasmic reticulum is where lipids are made vesicle delivers the proteins the cytosol is the slimy filling the rough endoplasmic reticulum helps ribosomes make and fold proteins those are the parts of the animals cell hope you like our song, ciao farewell!!!!!!!!!!!
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A present for a the slimy midget "hizzoner" thief-in-chief: arbooz ( "Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
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Every auto buying experience I've had involved the worst kind of back-stabbing slimy salesmen until now.
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And not just any fish, mind you, but tasty ones, like flying fish, yellowtail and blowfish - the forbidden fugu - plus spiny, slimy things like ebi, abalone and crawfish.
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The source of the odor - enough to send even the most ardent picnickers packing - is the slimy, greenish brown matrix (seen here on the arms of the stinkhorn), which houses the spores.
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Without warning, she smartly conked him on the back of the head, the slimy gum flinging out of his mouth and into her opposite hand.
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Imagine a cart full of whitish mud, filled with the minutest shells, poured all wet and sticky and slimy onto some clean planks and you may have some faint idea of what globigerina mud is like.
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The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.
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They're rather grotesque in that their body is very, very watery and slimy and when you get very large bags of them they tend to sort of slime up the net.
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
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We can no longer mention as belonging to the bridges which are said to lead from the organic world to the inorganic, the often-named _bathybius_, discovered by Huxley, and so strongly relied upon for the mechanical explanation of life -- a slimy net-like growth, which covers the rocks in the great depths of the ocean.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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All liberals are slimy, but Leahy and Boxer are among the slimiest, bottom dwellers on earth.
Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics'
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In fact, the creamy white flesh is barely edible; it's tasteless and slimy.
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He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
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The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
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We grasped kelp to anchor us, so as not to be taken out in the backwash, and clambered over its slimy fronds to the jumble of boulders that constituted the beach.
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Rhasis and [1360] Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Now the Hither Isles are flat and cold and swampy, with drear-drab light and all manner of slimy, creeping things, and piles of dirt and clouds of flying dust and sordid scraping and feeding and noise.
DARKWATER
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And, next I knew, he was donning his outdoor boots and slipping out of the door to carry out a wild summer night dance, sploshing along a crunchy path of snails and over a slimy carpet of slugs.
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Kids take metaphors literally, which mean that a frog in your throat will be slimy, living and likely to hop out onto the kitchen floor.
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Though not all Paini have muscular forearms combined with keratinous spines, like coarse sandpaper, on their chests and forearms, those who live in fast-flowing streams do, evidently to prevent the slimy female from being whisked away during the sometimes hours-long amplexus required for the female to ovulate.
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Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
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Fish species are lake trout, Arctic grayling, round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum), burbot, and slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus), which feed on benthic chironomid larvae and snails, the latter controlling epilithic algae in the lake.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic
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The small group then began to clamber up the stepsnearly 500 of them, the lower few rows of massive foot-high granite setts muddy and slimy with the daily rise and fall of the river; the upper ones hot and dusty, and alive with hawkers and beggars and confidence men eager to trick any newcomers panting up from the riverside. next »
Excerpt: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
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A phobia of these gloopy, slimy garden creatures is not uncommon among the green-fingered population, and a fear of slime even has a name - blennophobia.
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Even washing with water makes it go all yucky and slimy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
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and she cleared her throat with a loud hawking sound and gobbed into the cup, a huge slimy gob.
COME TO MECCA
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The hook had fouled among a bunch of strawberries, red on one side and white on the other -- perfect reproductions of the land fruit, except that there were no leaves, and the stem was all pipy and slimy.
Captains Courageous
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On family holidays he crept into caves and hollow trees and played with their slimy interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The original script called for Bossk to be a "slimy, tentacled monster with two huge, bloodshot eyes in a soft baggy face.
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By mid - summer, most stream sections contain primarily YOY grayling, along with slimy sculpin and burbot.
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The worst was a hot, wet, slimy splat in my ear that made it burn.
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There are many packets of pumpkin seeds, sticky bottles of flax oil, dehydrating apricots and slimy salad in kitchens up and down the land.
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He talks to proprietors, examines the fresher, blueish-white cloudy carbuncles selling for $1.45 per pound and the ashier, aging ones, a few hours older, discounted to sell quickly for $1.18 per pound before they get slimy.
Corn Smut Delicacy Huitlacoche Is Good For You
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I'll say I can-and I would love to, the big, slimy, stinking skinker!
First Lensman
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The freezing water, oozy and slimy with horse saliva, encompassed her body like a gooey envelope.
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To those who have rowed only clumsy country-boats, with their awkward row-locks and wretched oars, slimy, dirty, and leaking, trailing behind tags and streamers of pond-weed, or who have only experimented with that most uncivilized style of digging up the water called paddling, the real pleasure of rowing is unknown.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
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A good taleggio, Gorgonzola or Brie might be described as sweaty or slimy.
You Eat That?
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A newt -- aka a hellbender or mud puppy -- is a slimy amphibian with an uncanny ability to reinvent itself by regenerating limbs, eyes, jaws, a spinal cord, even its heart.
Michael Sigman: The Newtiness of Newt
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It has a very deep, narrow body with a forked tailfin and is very slimy.
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His orange suit was soiled by slimy machine oil, but he didn't mind the mess.
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The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe the sight of watching a box-faced BBC news presenter and a slimy 1980s soul funkster trying to belt out a country a western number despite an obvious lack of capability did it for us.
Just The Two Of Us Betting Odds – First Night, Who’ll Win?
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Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
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The cells of rhodophytes are commonly covered by a slimy outer sheath.
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The frogs are important because many scientists think that our slimy green pond brethren can tell the future by being susceptible to diseases that will bedevil us bipeds down the line.
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Rhasis and [1360] Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I once used an illustration about snakes and referred to them as "slimy, poisonous creatures.
Christianity Today
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His skin was patchy and faded, and there seemed to be a faint coating of some sort of slimy gel covering most of his body.
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Then, while he was still listening to the unfamiliar echo of his own voice, he heard just behind him a _splash, splash, splash_, and his left arm jerked itself spasmodically from beneath his breast, the hand simultaneously touching a substance that was hard, cold, and slimy.
Adventures in Many Lands
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She stared at him in a moment of shock, then grabbed handful of slimy mud and shoved it into his face.
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His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.
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Its soul is too complex to adjust itself to the slimy woof of our social fabric.
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And it was freezing cold and slimy.
Times, Sunday Times
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No swamp should be drained, no stream covered with concrete and turned into a green slimy drain.
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Getting up is bad enough but when it comes after rolling over onto something cold and slimy it's just all kinds of bad.
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They smell fishy and feel a bit slimy, but the whole scene is so surreal that the physical sensation is the least of my worries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first night he rode the blender to produce a vegetable soup garnished with cauliflower, a pea and gratineed potato dish and a dessert of babaco, a sweet, slimy fruit garnished with broken cinnamon sticks.
Cooking Without Electricity - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
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His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick.
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Instead of freeing slimy sculpin from predation, the population of burbot rapidly expanded and burbot became an effective predator, restricting slimy sculpin to rocky littoral habitats, and allowing the density of its prey, chironomid larvae, to remain high.
Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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On family holidays he crept into caves and hollow trees and played with their slimy interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The lindworm, with its flat head and duck's beak, darted after fish, and crept up to the surface of the earth through the slimy ways of mire and marsh.
Weird Tales from Northern Seas
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Wulf is imprisoned, condemned to die for supposedly leading a troop of men to their deaths against The Slimy Ones, cthulhoid horrors from the Terrible East.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Between the hummocks was a slimy, black ooze that covered the bones of more than one unfortunate animal.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
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Its teeth, rotting and yellow, were complemented by a long snake-like tongue that flicked around inside of a slimy, saliva filled mouth.
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The collective culture of Capitalism created Madoff, celebrated people like him in pop-culture, - created millions * just like him* and/or aspired to BE him and now the MSM is running out of bad-apples to distract us with so that Americans don't see the slimy, rotted trunk of the Free Market tree that's falling in the yard.
Dan Solin: The Scam That Outscams "The Scam"
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Not killing, mind you ... but in there nonetheless, all slimy and sickening, so intwined with what makes this place simply exist, that it's supremely difficult to remove.
Archive 2008-10-01
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While the slimy snail, finding its proper nutriment in the decomposing vegetable matter and minute confervoid growth, prevents their accumulation by removing them; and by its vital powers converts what would otherwise act as a poison into
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852
