If that slug had been a little deeper, Maxie could have kissed his arm goodbye.
Maxie's out of the way, because I put a slug in his elbow when he tried that ambush on the Sky High trail.
It seems like a big brown slug covered with bristles and is not very pleasant to handle; but you needn't be afraid of it, and you mustn't be squeamish.
Then the black slug is very common in many parts of the country.
When the weather is cold, this slug makes a kind of cocoon of earth and slime, and lies fast asleep inside it, often for many months at a time.
THE SEA-MOUSE Looking far more like a hairy slug than a worm, the sea-mouse also belongs to the class of the annelids.
He has been found holding a buttercup under the mouth of a slug "to see if he likes butter.
Once in the Sudan I was dozing on the sand when I opened my eyes and there was a horrid creature like a big slug with horns, short and thick, about a foot long, moving away in front of me.
The line justified, a plunger in the metal-pot forces a quantity of metal into the mold and against the line of matrices, forming a metal strip or slug with the letters in relief on one edge.
After the cast is made, a turn of the mold-wheel and other mechanism shaves off the surplus metal on the foot of the slug and pushes it between knife-edges, where it is trimmed on the sides, and is then pushed on to a galley.
After we had to some extent relieved our feelings we changed my gold slug into dust--I purchased a buckskin bag--and went to find McGlynn.
He's the man I was to leave change for my gold slug with.
These folk ran away from us at first, but when they found that we did them no harm, became friendly and brought us offerings of milk, also of a kind of slug or caterpillar which they seemed to eat.
He is going to fetch his supper from the Laird of Bradwardine's braes, but I 'll send a slug after him.
Why, if a poor fellow does happen to fire a slug of a morning, I am sure you were never the lady to bring him to harm.
Instinct tells me to slugyou in the teeth," Aron said, "but apathy forbids me.
Couldn't it be that you refuse to slug me because you want me to keep talking?
This slug reaches a length when outstretched of 12 inches.
At the same instant she saw a slug creeping upon her frock, and she now screamed in such a frantic manner that her cries reached the house.
It was soon known that the sight of a frog and a slug was all that ailed Miss Mary, and then how angrily and scornfully did every one look at her, to think that her folly had been the cause of such a terrible disaster.
The currant-worm, rose-slug and pear-slug are all members of this family, and farmers are not on friendly terms with these insects.
In each case, the ancestral sea-slug has been modified for a free-swimming life.
Professor Herdman found in a rock-pool on the west coast of Scotland "a peculiarly coloured specimen of the common sea-slug (Doris tuberculata).
But don't you dare to slug back at him; understand?
He didn't slug once, but he pushed and hauled and upset Jones until that gentleman was thoroughly exasperated.
But each time they roared and missed, a heavy slug tore into his body.
Desperately he raised himself and fired again, then when another slug tore through his neck, he slumped back and lay still.
A slug whipped his hat from his head, and he dived for cover behind his dead horse.
Just as I sank down again behind the boulder his musket flashed, and I heard the slug strike with a thud against the rock.
But of course his taking aim had given me time to slip away, and the slug passed clean through the hut, doing no damage, but merely striking the wall on the other side, and setting Little John barking furiously.
That's what he done and Joe didn't have time to think twice after thatslug hit him.
Fourth Officer Olmstead has the authority and the orders to put a half-ounce slug through the guts of any or all of you that don't jump, and jump fast, to do what he tells you.
I've got the guts and the inclination to stand up and slug it out, toe to toe, with man, beast, or devil.
There must be at least twenty-five dollars' worth of pure gold in thatslug if there's a penny--let alone its curio value.
The murderer neither paused nor turned aside, but held straight on, hewing steadily and silently, until the weapons bristled thick about him and he went down at last like a malignant slug under a tumble of stinging wasps.
Watch for fast balls, and when you see one coming, slug it!
Maybe we've got a good battery ourselves, and a man or two who can slug the ball!
All right," said Captain Charley, "You have a fine flag ready when I get back and the slug will be yours.
For a few days I kept my precious slug and looked at it and thought how much money it was.
When brother returned it was our turn to be astonished to see these beautiful decanter stands, fit to grace the sideboard of any mansion in the land, and they were mine, and also the slug which brother tossed into my lap.
A slug whined off a ventilator cowl a foot from Rick's head, but he forced himself to wait.
Pete Torres had a neat bandage on his arm; apparently the Filipino Naval medico had removed the pirate rifle slug easily enough.
In the same instant a rifleslug splintered wood on the cabin roof overhead.
The pirate's stock splintered and the force of the slug smashed the barrel across his face.
He wondered if the guard on duty last night had seen him slug the pirate, and he decided it didn't make much difference.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
