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Definition of Slowworms
1. slowworm [n] - See also: slowworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowworms
Literary usage of Slowworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Madam How and Lady Why; Or by Charles Kingsley (1885)
"But are not poor people often very silly about animals and plants ? The boys at
the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; is not that silly? ..."
2. Stepping Stones to Literature by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1897)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know
that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."
3. Flood, Field and Forest by George Rooper (1869)
"Snakes, slowworms. and adders were very numerous, and we captured them with as
... slowworms we generally killed; why, I cannot say, except that the fact ..."
4. A Fifth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1910)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know
that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."
5. A Fifth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert, California State Text-book Committee, California State Board of Education (1914)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know
that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."
6. Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action by George Perkins Marsh (1864)
"... I watched their proceedings, and found every day lying near the tower numbers
of dead or dying slowworms, and, in a few cases, small lizards, which had, ..."
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