vermicular
Example Sentences
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Whedell paused, for effect, and contemplated the vermicular work in the carpet.
From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell
The etched scene of Sikes's desperation on the roof of a house in Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, is in essence Misery itself, vermicular as well as violent.
From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.
A peculiar vermicular movement, beginning at his feet and ending at his head, was the precursor of a slow, vacant guffaw that expressed the most intense delight of which he was capable.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.
Nobody went around in that day to explain the vermicular motion of the stomach or the upward action of nerve-force, or the psychopathic value of animal magnetism.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward
