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Bits of Gragelouth drifted by, the sloth's uncommitted mouth bemoaning its fate in a gurgling litany.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Sizable, hairless, naked ears stuck out of the top of his head, whereas Buncan had acquired the sloth's ears: comparatively small, gray-furred flaps of skin.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Acedia might be the monk's noontime demon - the desert heat baking the life of out his prayers, the day now stretching emptily before him, moving with syrupy slowness - but in my life sloth's succubus stamps in the door in February, and is nowise as gentle.

Soup and Psalmody Michelle 2008

Acedia might be the monk's noontime demon - the desert heat baking the life of out his prayers, the day now stretching emptily before him, moving with syrupy slowness - but in my life sloth's succubus stamps in the door in February, and is nowise as gentle.

Archive 2008-02-01 Michelle 2008

It is a palliative for the passive, sloth's lover.

Archive 2004-08-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

It is a palliative for the passive, sloth's lover.

sloth's lover Dean Francis Alfar 2004

A sloth's hairs shelter an algae that is brown during the dry season and green during the wet season, so the animal blends in with the surrounding moss and foliage and looks like a nest of white ants or of squirrels, or like nothing at all but part of a tree.

Excerpt: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2002

And the sloth's slightly better sense of smell should not be overestimated.

Excerpt: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2002

On a scale of 2 to 10, where 2 represents unusual dullness and 10 extreme acuity, Beebe (1926) gave the sloth's senses of taste, touch, sight and hearing a rating of 2, and its sense of smell a rating of 3.

Excerpt: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2002

Jon-Tom spun the staff, touched the hidden switch set in the wood, and six inches of steel emerged from the back end of the shaft to slide into the sloth's throat.

The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984