First it turns the shell upside down; then it scoops out the sand from beneath it, and smears the surface of the hollow with slime from its own body; and then it piles loose sand over the shell, so as to keep it in position.
The fact is that the worm is always pouring out from its skin a sticky slime which quickly becomes quite hard and firm.
When winter draws near all the snails go into hiding, and they have a most curious way of closing the entrances to their shells by making little doors across them, composed partly of slime and partly of very small fragments of earth.
And there am I struggling through slime to reach you--not MY face, of course.
And everywhere amongst this sea of men and women could be seen their shadows, meandering like streaks of grey slime stirred up from the lower depths by some huge, never-ceasing finger.
I am that man, the sum of him, the all of him, the hairless biped who struggled upward from the slime and created love and law out of the anarchy of fecund life that screamed and squalled in the jungle.
Oh, I abused them, called them sons of toads, hell's scullions, slime of the pit.
Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.
And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar: 11:4.
What vermin bred of putrefacted slime Shall dare to expostulate with thy decrees!
Go to, Castilio, Clap him into the palace dungeon; 271 Lap him in rags, and let him feed on slime That smears the dungeon' cheek.
Where the river-bed isslime and mud, the channel has to be kept clear by dredgers at the expense of the Conservancy, and no delightful rents accrue from the process.
Nor is it half so greedy of men's bodies As they of soul and all; nor does it wallow In slime as they in simony and lies And close lusts of the flesh.
But when search was made in the evening of the same day Phillips and his son were found dead in the marsh, covered with black slime and pondweed.
It is impossible for civil France to reconstruct itself; as impossible as it would be to build a Notre Dame of Paris, or a St. Peter's of Rome out of the slime of the streets or the dust of the highways.
The moisture and slime that were about them became flesh; the stony part became bones; the veins remained veins, retaining their name, only changing their use.
Peripatus capensis dissected so as to shew the alimentary canal, slime glands, and salivary glands; x 3.
Two days before they are put into pickle, rub the hams well with salt, to draw away all slime and blood.
In the Newfoundland fishery they are taken out previous to incipient putrefaction, washed from their slime and salted for exportation.
She first slipped her tongue into my bottom-hole, then spit upon her clitoris, and then anointed my aperture with the delicious slime of her well-fucked cunt, and then with the utmost ease pushed the dear thing up to its utmost limits.
Mrs. Benson lay for a few minutes longer all exposed, her quim more open than before, and I could see a whiteslime oozing from it.
Should it be taken to one or other of the blue islands in the broad bay, sooner or later it will be discovered nestling cosily in the grotto in which the dyed slime smears it as with pale blood.
The tawny slime defeated irresolute efforts, and my slipping hands bestowed a baptismal splash.
The sun concentrated its rays on my head through a rift in the jungle, and the stone, stained dull red, lay in its cell, while rootlets fringed with tawny slime wavered over it.
As he tramped off through the inky slime I squatted down on a mud-bank, with my rifle across my knees.
Separating, in accordance with this plan, Corker and I squelched off through the fœtid slime toward the upper end of the delta.
He strains his strength their knots to tear, While gore and slime his fillets smear, And to the unregardful skies Sends up his agonizing cries.
Among other deeds done for men was the slaying of the monster serpent Python, born from the slime and stagnant waters which remained upon the surface of the earth after the Deluge.
There they found a dreary expanse of bogland where scummy pools of stagnant water and festering slime heaved sluggishly with oily bubbles of marsh gas that burst audibly in the hanging silence.
She was gaunt and filthy, plastered with slime from head to foot, and in her hands she held the half-eaten body of a larger crustacean that obviously had died of natural causes and not too recently, at that.
A dusky forerunner of darkness settled like a tangible cloud, softening the drab outlines of bramble thickets and slime pools.
The air was very cold, and was laden with the indescribable smell of dried slime which belongs to deep wells which have long been almost quite dry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
