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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Using a pestle and mortar keeps the texture grainy and avoids making a slimy emulsion. |
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There was a twenty foot long trap door that led to a pit filled with muddy, slimy water. |
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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 pulled her fist back and saw that it was covered in a slimy clear residue of some sort. |
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The floor, tables, and several unlucky humans were covered in slimy green webbing. |
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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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She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind. |
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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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I risked a peek, then hugged the dirt again, mud and slimy leaves rubbing against me. |
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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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And if you carry the peel with you, you've got to deal with a slippery, slimy wet thing. |
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The windows were cracked and covered in cobwebs, dirt, and various other slimy materials. |
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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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That was Ishmael's job, but he had that wild-eyed look fishermen get in the presence of slimy dead animals with gaping mouths. |
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The freezing water, oozy and slimy with horse saliva, encompassed her body like a gooey envelope. |
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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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Lars is slippery and slimy, but he still runs into doors sometimes when he's not paying attention. |
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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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Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder. |
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He looked for all the world like a little boy who had just brought a slimy frog to his Mother and couldn't understand why she wasn't excited too. |
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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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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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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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The steep, slimy furrows might be an image of the surface of your brain, covered by the infected membrane. |
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I tell you, if they were green and slimy instead of warm and cuddly, you'd never tolerate cats in the house. |
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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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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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That when push comes to shove, the bureau will take the perjurious word of her slimy psychotic husband. |
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They walked at a wearisome pace across the trembling peat bog, knee deep in flowering ling, bog cotton and black slimy mud. |
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The rock was also a little slimy, which was the result of much salt encrusting the facets of every feature. |
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Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes. |
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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 wasn't slimy or anything, just had an attitude that grated on my nerves. |
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You're trying to appeal to his finer feelings, and people who write for that slimy rag don't have any. |
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Remember to mix grass clippings with other garden wastes in the compost heap to avoid them becoming slimy, stagnant and smelly. |
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Arven wiped his slimy hands, which were now beginning to get disgustingly sticky. |
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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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His orange suit was soiled by slimy machine oil, but he didn't mind the mess. |
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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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When both of them are set after the same slimy car thief who has jumped bail things get out of hand. |
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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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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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Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff. |
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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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It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer. |
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She began to shiver in the freezing air and the cold, slimy water, and Nick sloshed his way over to take her in his arms. |
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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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All that was around her was Michael Milano, his oily, slimy, greasy demeanor was overpowering her. |
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails sport a soft and slimy foot. |
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It was fine until I lifted the bag, which then spilled its contents all over the floor and all over me in a slimy, sickly-sweet smelling deluge. |
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The weatherfish most often lives in slimy waters, in old river beds and in ditches. |
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One of the men across from us reminds me of a fish, his lips and something slimy they do when he looks at me. |
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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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The vegetable dumplings, in contrast, were almost inedible, with a slimy exterior and no discernible flavour. |
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It may not be a plasma ray gun, but it will still put a hole in that nasty, slimy, green head of yours. |
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The worst was a hot, wet, slimy splat in my ear that made it burn. |
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The slimy, childish, petulant Viserys starts off as a symbol of everything about Targaryen rule Westeros has rejected. |
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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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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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The thing was so slimy I think the goo will stick to my boots forever. |
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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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They are gooey and slimy and wet and horrible and yucky and revolting. |
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The cells of rhodophytes are commonly covered by a slimy outer sheath. |
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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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Some are too bright, in terms of fire, and some are full of wet, slimy, nasty stuff. |
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Greg Smith woke up one morning this month, covered from head to toe in icky, slimy Vampire-Squid ink. |
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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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It has a very deep, narrow body with a forked tailfin and is very slimy. |
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Or, if tortoises, skinks and toads are perhaps a bit too slimy for you, its waters are home to the minute Aphanius iberus, the killifish or Spanish toothcarp. |
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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 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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I would never have the audacity to fall for such a slimy two-timer! |
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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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I think people are fascinated by these slimy weird monsters of the deep. |
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Suddenly a piece of slimy seaweed wraps itself around his leg. |
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She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers. |
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The broken-down, slimy, clammy and cold basement was my refuge from them. |
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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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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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A bloodied, slimy ball of a pig, mistakenly corralled amidst the curs, dislodged itself from the slaughter, squealing and stinking, and made straight for the sketch artist. |
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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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Two weeks ago, we took the frog to the doctor's as she had been unable to shake off an infection and her production of slimy, yellow, globulous mucus had gone into overdrive. |
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And Neil Hamilton, the slimy MP at the centre of the cash-for-questions scandal, has been exposed as a liar as well as a money-grubber. |
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At left, another snorkeler is down in the trench for world competition in a slimy sport. |
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Said chef then proceeds to cough slimy phlegm all over the veal before it is breadcrumbed. |
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Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job. |
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The fertile portion of the Gasteromycetes, called a gleba, may become powdery as in the puffballs or slimy as in the stinkhorns. |
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Happy Alien Day, everyone! Did Father Xenomorphmas bring you any pulsating, slimy sacks of goodness? Have you face-hugged someone today? |
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The garbageman plunges a white-gloved hand into the filth, fishes out a slimy plastic bag and slings it into the red basket he's towing. |
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In such cases, we waded out, un-stuck our arrows, and hoisted our slimy prizes ashore before they could slip off the unbarbed tips. |
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I do not shy away from the sinister horseshoe crab, nor do I shrink from the slimy foot of the moon snail. |
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The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue. |
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Yes he may be ludicrous, yes he may be vile, yes he may be slimier than Slimy the slimy slug. |
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He is starring in the children's drama Fungus The Bogeyman, a celebration of all things slimy and revolting, which begins at teatime on Sunday. |
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When a very tired ant named DreddieLocks visits the very slimy home of three banana slugs, a very sticky situation ensues. |
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A history of uterine prolapse or retroversion is often noted in these instances and there may be a yellowish, slimy, viscid. |
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The wheels do spin a lot when encountering the slimy residue on the rail tracks from leaves, greatly slowing down trains. |
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He twisted the slimy umbilical around his hand and waited until the afterbirth came away. |
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Molluscs' mouths also contain glands that secrete slimy mucus, to which the food sticks. |
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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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Contrary to the popular notion of snakes being slimy because of possible confusion of snakes with worms, snakeskin has a smooth, dry texture. |
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Fan-ficcers are used to being treated as the pondscum of the nerd world, a few slimy feet below the table-top roleplayers and historical re-enacters. |
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A Ukrainian teen watching NEPTUNE's online webcams glimpsed the snout of a mysterious creature slurping up a slimy hagfish on the seafloor, at a depth of nearly 900 meters. |
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While slimy usually means don't eat it, he recently grilled a king bolete whose cap, once cooked, reminded him of a slug in texture, but which tasted delicious. |
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His shame at what she might on the other hand perceive as his slimy phallocentric conduct toward her made it easier for him to avoid her, as well. |
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This level shows that there are some commonalties that human and animal minds share because we are living on the same planet and descended from the same slimy ancestors. |
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I hated cooking okra because it was so slimy when you first start. |
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The American eel has a slender snakelike body that is covered with a mucous layer, which makes the eel appear to be naked and slimy despite the presence of minute scales. |
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Wormcast butties, tubes of glue, Pans of slugs in slimy stew, Bogey burgers, brown rat roast, Fat Black tadpoles squashed on toast, Washed down with a cup of string. |
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