Crossword-Solution: SLIMING 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This is only a covert fear, the apprehensive timidity of indolent slugs, who guard, by sliming it over, the snug place, which they consider in the light of an hereditary estate; and eat, drink, and enjoy themselves, instead of fulfilling the duties, excepting a few empty forms, for which it was endowed.

The worms crawl over his heart, boring and bleeding it as they writhe; the fireflies would burn out the black congested gore, and cure the festering wounds, but new swarms of reptiles are forever sliming into life, and ever deeper and more gangrened are the wounds they make.

From the sour earth, sliming his hands and knees, arose an overpowering stench of decay and disturbed mold.

From the baking of bread To the breaking a head, From rhyming a ballad To sliming a salad, From mending of ditches To spending of riches, Follow the rule to the uttermost letter: "Better!" Of course you may say but a few Can do Better; And you're going to strive So that all may thrive Better.

Wollstonecraft was alive to this weakness in Fuseli's character, and on one occasion emphatically exclaimed, "I hate to see that reptile Vanity sliming over the noble qualities of your heart." This feeling with regard to several of the artists,--for he esteemed the acquirements of others,--was not given in reference to their powers as painters, for he had a high opinion of the English school of art in some of its branches.