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viscous
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  • The corridor was steeped in viscous darkness, so Root flicked down his infrared filter.†   (source)
  • It left a viscous brown smear.†   (source)
  • It was viscous and cold.†   (source)
  • I kept stirring until the mix turned viscous and milky.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh hurried now into the lab and retrieved the Pyrex jug of Bunsen-burner fuel—a viscous, highly flammable, yet noncombustible oil.†   (source)
  • Bright plastic bags blew across its viscous, weedy surface like subtropical flying-flowers.†   (source)
  • It was slowly flowing, shifting viscously down into his sleeve: it looked as if his fingers were melting.†   (source)
  • Blood from Blackwell's cut throat was spreading across the floor in a viscous red pool.†   (source)
  • From a carton of cigarettes she could extract enough milligrams of the substance and heat it to make a viscous syrup.†   (source)
  • So he walked over to the bar, and ordered the round, making a special trip to carry the brimming, viscous Alexander.†   (source)
  • A love for these animals wells up in me suddenly, a flash flood, and there it is, solid as an obelisk and viscous as water.†   (source)
  • In other places, craters of viscous liquid bubbled and steamed, filling the cave with noxious gas.†   (source)
  • Words like: viscous, impunity, paroxysm, unctuous, nefarious, onanistic, perfidious, lugubrious.†   (source)
  • When the squad took aim, the rage had materialized into a viscous and bitter substance that put his tongue to sleep and made him close his eyes.†   (source)
  • While I pushed the now-viscous blood through her arteries, I watched what he was doing.†   (source)
  • The mud was thick and viscous; halfway to the tree house, Beth's shoe came off, but she didn't stop.†   (source)
  • Two hours later Alba felt a warm viscous liquid between her legs and saw that her slacks were stained with red.†   (source)
  • His viscous eyes bulged with astonishment and he whipped himself around in alarm to see what was taking place behind him.†   (source)
  • Her body felt as if it were floating, as if warm viscous fluid were flowing over her.†   (source)
  • Don't you check out on me, Jupiter," she said, rubbing something viscous on the red spot on my forehead that had led to this nickname.†   (source)
  • Shattered glass and crushed metal accompanied the rising mists of steam from burst cylinders, and the growing fires of viscous fluids underneath that would soon reach a gas tank.†   (source)
  • Some leaves I seeped in slick and viscous oil, some into sharp-smelling spirit, some into plain, clear water.†   (source)
  • She had smashed the bulbous bases together, and a viscous spray of oil had burst from them.†   (source)
  • When he finally removed this from the hearth, it appeared as a viscous ball of molten, glowing glass.†   (source)
  • In this way he was able to convert his viscous long-distance local into the most ethereal express.†   (source)
  • Relatively low melting point compared to iron or nickel but also very viscous and low volatility even in vacuum.†   (source)
  • The sight of sawdust, even pencil shavings, made him wince, his own kind being known to use it for hushing sick transmissions, and though he dieted he could still not as Oedipa did use honey to sweeten his coffee for like all things viscous it distressed him, recalling too poignantly what is often mixed with motor oil to ooze dishonest into gaps between piston and cylinder wall.†   (source)
  • No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.   (source)
  • He says it is a myth that glass as a very, very viscous fluid.
  • He hates that feeling: cold, viscous, like a peeled, refrigerated muscle.†   (source)
  • The viscous oil clung to the skin and seared through the tissue.†   (source)
  • I don't like these shadowy, viscous pictures.†   (source)
  • They were leaking some viscous substance.†   (source)
  • Black blood followed, fanning around the boulder in a great, viscous puddle.†   (source)
  • Clouds of dark viscous fluid—poison, perhaps—curled from his blue skin.†   (source)
  • But he only saw red, viscous red, as the blood poured down his back in tendrils as it had before.†   (source)
  • It was blue and viscous but moved quickly, spreading over the man's head, then down around his ears and face.†   (source)
  • Perfluorocarbons had once been too viscous to be fully breathable, but modern breakthroughs had made breathable liquids almost the consistency of water.†   (source)
  • It skirted the precipice of the deep pit from which laterite had been quarried, and was now a still lake with steep orange banks, the thick, viscous water covered with a luminous film of green scum.†   (source)
  • It howled like ten pigs being gelded, rolling and thrashing in the rain-swollen mud, weeping a black river of itself, viscous fluid pumping over the blades' rusted handle.†   (source)
  • The panic associated with the drowning experience usually made the victim unaware that the liquid he was breathing was slightly more viscous than water.†   (source)
  • It was sticky, viscous.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth began a last, desperate series of convulsive spasms, its serrated jaws clacking together as it thrashed—and then it was gone, only a viscous puddle of green fluid steaming on the cobblestones where it had been.†   (source)
  • — was dripping blood in several trickles, like snow melting on eaves, but viscous and red, already thickening as it dropped.†   (source)
  • The heavier the burden and the closer you get to the end, the more viscous time becomes, and you see, in slow motion, intimations of eternity.†   (source)
  • With the additional thermal energy the already molten glass was becoming less viscous and quickly shifting from a blob to a very definite disk.†   (source)
  • Those in the water were struggling to get out, forgetting in their haste to swim, wailing, walking, held back in their flight by the viscous, clinging sea as though by a biting wind.†   (source)
  • In fifteen minutes his hands were the color of a rose, and in half an hour they had started to bleed, to exude viscous white fluids, and to crack apart.†   (source)
  • …conduct electricity; all four went up in flames almost every night when the water heater exploded and set the two-story wooden house afire; in ghastly, heartless, revolting detail he saw his poor dear wife's trim and fragile body crushed to a viscous pulp against the brick wall of a market building by a half-wined drunken automobile driver and watched his hysterical five-year-old daughter being led away from the grisly scene by a kindly middle-aged gentleman with snow-white hair who…†   (source)
  • For two days he went without anything hot to eat or drink, and used his fuel to melt bookbindings, which he cooked into a viscous fluid by adding sugar, pasta, and kerosene.†   (source)
  • Her cheeks and the top of her chest blazed like a burn, or rouge, and the color spread to her breasts and her shoulders and was only dilute once it had cooled by running, like a viscous waterfall, down the length of her back.†   (source)
  • And from among them rise one or two distinct figures, birds who sang with the rapt egotism of youth by the window; broke their snails on stones, dipped their beaks in sticky, viscous matter; hard, avid, remorseless; Jinny, Susan, Rhoda.†   (source)
  • In a steamer it takes two or three days to cross the North Sea—so many hours of slobbering through the viscous water.†   (source)
  • Beyond all misuse, waste, pain, tragedy, death, confusion, unswerving necessity was on the rails; not a sparrow fell through the air but that its repercussion acted on his life, and the lonely light that fell upon the viscous and interminable seas at dawn awoke sea-changes washing life to him.†   (source)
  • Shall these eyes, drenched with visions yet unseen, stored with the viscous and interminable seas at dawn, with the sad comfort of unfulfilled Arcadias, seal up their cold dead dreams upon a tick, as this, in time, in some hot village of the plains?†   (source)
  • It seemed as if these viscous tentacles grew back like the many heads of Hydra.†   (source)
  • For the stench given off by the impudicus was strikingly like that of a decaying corpse, the odor coming from a greenish, viscous slime that carried its spores and dripped from the bell-shaped cap.†   (source)
  • And under the sinister splendour of that sky the sea, blue and profound, remained still, without a stir, without a ripple, without a wrinkle—viscous, stagnant, dead.†   (source)
  • The moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot.†   (source)
  • The plains of sand were followed by a bed of that viscous slime Americans call "ooze," which is composed exclusively of seashells rich in limestone or silica.†   (source)
  • Emma's head was turned towards her right shoulder, the corner of her mouth, which was open, seemed like a black hole at the lower part of her face; her two thumbs were bent into the palms of her hands; a kind of white dust besprinkled her lashes, and her eyes were beginning to disappear in that viscous pallor that looks like a thin web, as if spiders had spun it over.†   (source)
  • It was outlined on a faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage.†   (source)
  • My feet often slipped on this viscous seaweed carpet, and without my alpenstock I would have fallen more than once.†   (source)
  • Through the lounge windows I could see long creepers and gigantic fucus plants, bulb–bearing seaweed of which the open sea at the pole had revealed a few specimens; with their smooth, viscous filaments, they measured as much as 300 meters long; genuine cables more than an inch thick and very tough, they're often used as mooring lines for ships.†   (source)
  • In English, as in American, it signifies a thick liquid, and hence the viscous cooked opium.†   (source)
  • Relinquishing his symposiarchal right to the moustache cup of imitation Crown Derby presented to him by his only daughter, Millicent (Milly), he substituted a cup identical with that of his guest and served extraordinarily to his guest and, in reduced measure, to himself the viscous cream ordinarily reserved for the breakfast of his wife Marion (Molly).†   (source)
  • Sometimes they would fix upon my nose, or forehead, where they stung me to the quick, smelling very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those creatures to walk with their feet upwards upon a ceiling.†   (source)
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