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  • It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • This would have been honed and polished by that slimy-looking creep of a deputy head.

    Teacher Sacked for Saying "Most Suicide Bombers are Muslims" 2007

  • Sighing, Reivan took the fork and skewered one of the slimy-looking fish.

    The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006

  • First a thing with the head of a frog, a long, pronged, snakelike tail and slimy-looking leathery wings darted across their path, spraying a noxious liquid that dripped down the web of the net.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • All but the commodore and one rather slimy-looking individual in plain black coveralls left.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • They looked like deformed, shell-less lobsters, horribly pale and slimy-looking, with legs sticking out in very odd places and no visible heads.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water ...

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • All she could see was the faint outline of dead, barren trees in all directions, dripping with slimy-looking ivy and covered with ugly molds.

    Bedlam Boyz Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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