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Their nutriment for their brief existence is the intellectual atmosphere of the bystanders: or this last, is the fine slime of Nilusthe melior Lutis,whose maternal recipiency is as necessary as the sol pater to their equivocal generation.
"Take off that dressthat slime on there's enough to kill a hundred mentake it right off.
He got up, but his clothes gathered some slime from the rock and his skin was stained by soil and moss.
The lowest of each flight are planted in deep morasses, and could only be settled by removing vast masses of estuary slime to a depth of 80 feet below sea-level.
As the sun sank behind the field of orchids that grew on the matted summit of the jungle, the river monsters came wallowing out of the slime in which they had reclined during the heat of the day, and the great beasts of the jungle came down to drink.
While the cold inward heat of cruelty Warms what was once your heart, now crusted o'er With duty and slimed with poisonous drip of tongues.
It was a strange and rather sickening thing, Alan Massey thought, to hear him talk like this after having lived the rottenest kind of a life, sunk in slime for years.
It is frequently of a red colour, and charged with slime like the Nile at the period of its inundations.
And so the work of a bridge builder, whether it is creating out of a mere jumble of facts and figures a giant structure, the shaping of glowing metal to exact measurements, the delving in the slime under water for firm foundations, or the throwing of webs of steel across yawning chasms or over roaring streams, is never monotonous, is often adventurous, and in many, many instances is a great civilising influence.
[Illustration: O] One evening I was sitting, coiled up in the slime at the bottom of my dug-out, toying with the mud enveloping my boots, when a head appeared at a gap in my mackintosh doorway and said, "The Colonel wants to see you, sir."