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Definition of Squirming
1. squirm [v] - See also: squirm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squirming
Literary usage of Squirming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"They're squirming Again "—A Contented Tinker — Waiting for the River to Dry up—"
For the Love of God, Bring me a Coffin "—A ({hold in the Dead-House — An ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"They're squirming Again" — A Contented Tinker — Waiting for the River to Dry
up — "For the Love of God, Bring me a Coffin" — A Ghoul in the Dead-House — An ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1900)
"They're squirming Again"— A Contented Tinker — Waiting for the River to Dry up — "
For the Love of God. Bring me a Coffin "— A Ghoul in the ..."
4. Autobiography of a Baby by Thomas Lindsley Bradford (1912)
"In the night I awoke with a feeling in my little inside as though a number of
snakes were squirming about each other. I had my hands outside the covers and ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1839 That denial was by a squirming from under the responsibility of ... 1845 We
care no more for the report than to show up the squirming of ungodly men. ..."
6. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1899)
"In each case the posterior half (one- eighth of the whole worm) immediately begins
the jerking and squirming motions, while the corresponding anterior half ..."
7. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"On the Movements of the Earthworm. touched on the tail-end, it crawls forward at
once, squirming actively at the same time. A drop of ether on a glass rod ..."
8. The History of Manchester, Formerly Derryfield, in New Hampshire: Including by Chandler Eastman Potter (1856)
"Fora gentle thing is the squirming eel. When attacked by foes, not a blow he
deals, But away alone in his glory steals; Not an angry thought to disturb his ..."
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