A 12th century treatise, the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, described the effects of excess choler thusly, "Your tongue will seem all rough, and oftentimes cause vomits, unaccustomed and hateful, great thirst, your excrements are full of slime, the stomach squeamish, sustenance ungrateful, your appetite will seem in nought delighting".Sources: Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary.
— Standing in the living room of their house, now full of mud, slime and debris, Helen and Peter Kelly cannot believe that Congress is bickering over disaster aid to people like them.
It's also quite Spielberg-esque in the tension stakes: the player has control over the character's movement, but the rhetorical effect of being stuck in a moving carriage going into a bunker-like lab full of radioactive slime and automated robots is that you become terrified of the prospect of your own role at the end.
It wasn't easy: Hagfish, for instance, produce copious amounts of slime, and Sansom had to empty a suitcase full of goop while returning by train from a collecting trip to Sweden.
Lyrically, it's full of schnitzels, nymphomaniacs, pink slime, "blow jobs of death", dreams, American primitives, assassins and G-spots.
I see evidence of the invasion in the crossroads of slime trails, tunnels of eaten iris and hostas full of holes.
Heaney's poems were full of finds, unlikely retrievals from the slime of the ground or the murk of history and memory.
I can guarantee that jails from the East to the West are full of convicts spreading and spraying the slime around.
Some consider the increasing number of jellies as evidence of the "rise of slime"; the dumbing down of complex ocean food webs into simplistic ecosystems full of microbes, algal blooms and jellyfish.
There are two groups of slime molds: the cellular slime molds and the acellular slime molds.
It was like surveying the evolution of slime.
