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• When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.
• A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm meshes with a worm gear.
• The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
• Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath.
• Ropes[...]are generally wormed before they are served.
• Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
• He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" ¶ "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. ¶ "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid."
• They[...]wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
• They find themselves wormed out of all power.
• He wormed his way into the organization
• ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
• We wormed our way through the underbrush.
• The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
• When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, / His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks.
• 'Tis slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
• There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer.
• The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms.
• I am a worm, and no man.
• Don't try to run away, you little worm!