My trivial faults base slander's slime Distorted into foulest crime, And men me worthless deem.

Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime?" Am I unduly pessimistic?

To become something better than a wilderness of dust and slime it needs engineering on the grand scale and a mighty populationimmense forces working for immense returns.

And now up runs Baptiste, covered with slime, and prepares to cast his projectiles.

It is separated from the mainland by a scarcely perceptible creek, oozing its way through a wilderness of reeds and slime, a favorite resort of the marsh-hen.

The coasts consisted only of sand-banks or slime, alternately overflowed or left imperfectly dry.

hight 105 Shall die in darknesse, and lie hid in slime!

Why should weake Nature tire her selfe in vaine In such a peice, to dash it straight againe? Why should she take such worke beyond her skill, Which when she cannot perfect, she must kill? Alas, what is't to temper slime or mire?

It was currently believed that our valuable garden toad is venomous and that frogs are bred from slime.

Now, I came clear of the darkness and the slime and the stinking in about twelve hours after the time that I did think the mountains to be a roof unto the Gorge; and the air was now free and did seem as that some life and health did abound in it; and the fires did be more plentiful, and burned very bright and clean, and threw all their fumings upward, so that there was no more any bitter pain of sulphur within my throat.

But truly, when I was come to look upon myself, I was utter soiled and did seem as that I stank with the slime and disgust of the dark part of the Gorge, where I had gone upon my hands, and upon my belly.

légamo, m., mud, slime. legión, f., legion.

We tied our horses to the trees, and prepared to follow their example, which was necessary, if only to wash off the iniquitous slime of the Dead Sea.

Slime they used instead of Mortar.

The Italians themselves were merged in the slime of despairing satisfaction, and he watched them creeping, "crouching, and crab-like," along their streets.

When the frog was got in it hopped at once half the length of the boat; and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with odious slime.

He says, when they first rose out of the water upon the dry board, they rested a littlewhich seemed to be till their slime was thrown out, and sufficiently glutinousand then they rose up the perpendicular ascent with the same facility as if they had been moving on a plane surface.

that spit venom all round you like a toad, and leave the very ground upon which you crawl infected with your slime.

Gold glitters on the pallid brow, And glassy eye-balls stare Through glossy ringlets, clustering bright, Of silken, raven hair. All, all had bow'd to Fashion's shrine, To deck the living form, Through which will drag its length'ned slime, The crawling coffin worm.

In "Plug Street" and other lines of trenches they stood in water with walls of oozy mud about them, until their legs rotted and became black with a false frostbite, until many of them were carried away with bronchitis and pneumonia, and until all of them, however many comforters they tied about their necks, or however many body-belts they used, were shivering, sodden scarecrows, plastered with slime.

Who was that young officer, a mere boy, who came toiling up through the slime and mud, and who at the crest halted and gave a quick salute to the two generals?

Her gunwales rubbed and squeaked along the straining piles green with sea slime; deck chains clinked, cog-wheels clattered, the stifling smell of dock water gave place to the fresher odour of the streets.

This statement admits of an easy illustration: for example, from some water containing aquatic plants, collected from a pond on Clapham Common, I select a small twig, to which are attached a few delicate flakes, apparently of slime or jelly; some minute fibres, standing erect here and there on the twig, are also dimly visible to the naked eye.

"What a pity," I thought, "that the peasant must depart from these beautiful mountains and valleys to die in the slime of the trenches.

There was no slime on stone or sun-dried brick.