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Examples
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There is always in his tracke or path left a glutinous and slimie matter
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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With my watchfull and attentiue eares, listning if the horrible monster with hir slimie and filthie poyson and stinking sauour were drawing towards mee.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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860: Crept forth like wormes out of her slimie nature.
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-- “Boiled in water, or wine, and drunken doth cut and consume the thicke toughnesse of grosse, and slimie flegme, and naughtie humours.
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770
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