Which preposition to use with slimy
The path, if it was a path, was slimy with mud, and about every third step I'd slip and go sprawling.
So Beltane followed him from the battlements, down winding stairs, through halls that whispered in the dark; down more stairs, down and ever down 'twixt walls slimy to the touch, through a gloom heavy with mildew and decay.
[Illustration: "Oily" Abel Suave and slimy as a snake; without any of the kindlier traits of nature, W.H. Abel, sounded the gamut of rottenness in his efforts to convict the accused men without the semblance of a fair trial.
The waters, turned to so much liquid clay, lashed red and slimy against the buttresses of the bridges.
And slimy under foot!
I felt it warm and slimy on my hands, and I rained my blows on him, madly and blindly, but with cruel effect after all.
Here and there, along the face of this rocky palisade, tiny streams of water leaked through and came down in a never-ending spray, leaving the rocks cool and slimy from its touch.
The feathery roots matted across his chest, the mass of them felt slimy like the hide of a drowned brute.