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    1. I also reasoned that if I could get local politics on board that this would give the Gardai and my worm of a boss Peter Dooley pause for thought before they tried to shut me down


    2. A fly hovered above the disordered tresses, analysing and collating the data flooding the atmosphere, another joined it, debated landing but was deterred by a worm of hair borne on the cooler breeze crossing from the nearby seashore


    3. bones lay amid the worm tilted stones


    4. behind me in the worm cast and the split timber


    5. He got the rock worm chopped in the pan with the mooliuk


    6. Helen Roach rapidly became a recluse, a shambolic, unkempt creature living a half-life of darkness in her bedroom, where she filled her ears with cotton wool buds when sober enough to remember that the worm was turning in her poor, throbbing skull


    7. buds when sober enough to remember that the worm was turning in


    8. worm in her head was tuned to a permanent loop that played the


    9. worm in her head, anyone that is apart from Alan, who stayed with


    10. there was little comfort in that and there was no escaping the worm

    11. Chas watched as the worm of an idea worked its way through Ozzie’s consciousness


    12. Billy can feel the imprint of gravel on his cheek, can taste worm earth on his teeth


    13. This seems unlikely considering what I know about her husband … gradually, I worm the whole story out of her


    14. worm on a dance floor—his feet hi the ground sending the rest of his body to a


    15. On the ground at his side the Graelic sat smoldering, totally black and shriveled like a worm caught in the baking sun


    16. men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither


    17. We often saw them flitting in and out of tree branches, falling to earth to pick up a seed or a worm, then back into the foliage


    18. explorers bought cysts of a stomach worm in


    19. Once they were infested with this special worm,


    20. harmless worm had its own defences that killed

    21. ” I could have screamed when I realised how easy it was for the little shit to worm his way in Rosie continued


    22. Terese stared at him as if he were a worm that needed to crawl back into that tiny crack in the wall, while Lydia’s gaze held a little more kindness


    23. SO, YOU HAVE COME TO FACE YOUR DOOM, SON OF ODIN, I LAUGH AT YOUR FEEBLE FLESH, I SNEER AT YOUR TINY BONES, I COULD CRUSH YOU LIKE A WORM UNDER A ROCK, YOU ARE WITHOUT HOPE, YOU SHALL SUFFER ETERNALLY BEFORE YOUR DEATH!


    24. Grey passed Darkburst a worm


    25. Scrabbling about at the base of a bush, Brock was eventually rewarded with a plump worm, but no sooner had he put it in his mouth than he was violently sick


    26. Grindel sucked at a worm for a moment, then discarding the empty skin, he beckoned the badger nearer


    27. Then his sense of smell, and the sweet scent of crushed grass and the earthy aroma of fresh worm casts


    28. On the third moon he tried eating a shiny fat worm, but vomited so violently that his abused senses made the stars spin wildly about his head


    29. "It's ring worm," I shouted back with a satisfied smirk


    30. "You've caught bloody ring worm

    31. Less than ten minutes later, there was a faintly glowing worm on the horizon, and as I got near, tiny pin-pricks of light


    32. “The early bird gets the worm,” Hastings informed us confidently


    33. “Get your hands off me, you worm!” she commanded


    34. I then wondered if the worm on the hook is calculating the angles the same way when it is dropped in the water


    35. Couldn’t the man let her get at him once more, just once? She screamed her hatred, stretching her grasp towards the worm, fists and clawing fingernails flailing the air futilely


    36. "We're staying at Glow Worm Backpackers in Cron Street


    37. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as; Knowing when to come in out of the rain, Why the early bird gets the worm


    38. Isa 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh


    39. 14 I have said to corruption, you are my father, to the worm; you are my mother, and my sister


    40. 24 And they shall go out, and look on the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me, for their worm shall not die, neither

    41. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it struck the


    42. heard was the faint plop of the cigarette butt as it hit the soft dirt below, audible only to a worm that happened to be passing


    43. There can be nothing more destructive of decency and civil order than the idea that a worm on a fishing line has the same natural right to claim integrity or even to exist


    44. Forbes Magazine writer Peter Brimlow, in his book The Worm in the Apple, details how teacher unions, primarily the National Education Association, spend millions of dollars of their members’ dues to defeat efforts to implement school choice


    45. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein


    46. With Eke in the lead, they began to worm their


    47. cannot watch, without crying, the struggle of a worm


    48. neither was there any worm therein


    49. worm as it crawls on dry gravel searching for moist, rich earth


    50. Emanating from the mouth of a so-called black (worm) hole













































    1. A tiny, arcing, charge came off the command chair and wormed and noodled its way into the back of Tig’s hand, making him let go


    2. that wormed away from the consecrated into fire


    3. Tom rapidly wormed his way through the crowded bar, purchased


    4. She had never cared for Enrique and, as a person who wormed his way around every dirty deal in San José, he was forever in need of someone to sacrifice


    5. “Do you have any recording devices of any type operating in this room?” He wormed in his seat like a chastised schoolboy


    6. the mole that wormed its way into the Democratic Party and now


    7. They wormed their way through the weeds and bushes and saplings that had sprouted in the fields over the last several years, and up the wooded hillside to the north, finding paths made by stray dogs or deer but often trampling out their own


    8. Ceder stopped short of what she was about to say as the fisherman’s idea wormed its way inside her head


    9. If her words had wormed


    10. On leaving the following morning, two choices wormed their way into our affections: carry on along the main Black Sea road to Trabzon, or turn off inland towards Gumushane and Bayburt

    11. She waited until the truck had gone out of sight and wormed her way to the new position


    12. More precisely, they wormed out the technique of meditations through deceit


    13. Ruma opened her heart and home to her people who had shunned her when she needed them the most and as they wormed their way into her affections, she lost her sense of proportion; given her snobbishness as my people paid no more than courtesy calls, I too developed a distorted vision of relationships in the ingratiating company of her relatives


    14. A sliver of guilt wormed its way in when he agreed whole-heartedly that it was a good idea


    15. While he loved being around all the security teams, and Gerry and Jack in particular, it was Nick Zach had latched onto as a mentor, and he’d soon wormed his way into that man’s heart


    16. That tiny wiggle wormed itself a little further into my soul


    17. Eventually he worked out this sound must have come from Nigger, who had, apparently, wormed her way through the sparse wooden fence to dine on her master's sick


    18. thoughts of the potential horror wormed through his consciousness


    19. How the hell had she wormed her way into the Degaud manor? She didn't intend to harm any of them, but it was way too easy


    20. Justine had wormed her way into his affections and stolen it from him

    21. A deep-seated resolve wormed its way up, a resolve that couldn’t be held in check by failure alone


    22. And then in one concerted movement they all slithered and wriggled and wormed off into


    23. respective parts of my body, kneading and pressing and stroking as they slowly wormed


    24. arm which wormed through the valley to the base of the two mountains


    25. The word wormed its way inside her


    26. before she wormed out, without much art, the secret of our having


    27. For the first time since before that night in the hotel, when those words had wormed their malevolent way into her head, she looked at herself in the mirror and felt uncomplicated pleasure


    28. He was a liar who had wormed his way into the confidence of the villagers with the intention of stealing


    29. Holmes, and I should have wormed out the whole story under their very noses


    30. Merlin had introduced the concept of sock puppets to Alahnah before she could walk, and somehow it had trickled out of the imperial nursery and wormed its way into the Charisian branch of Safehold’s venerable traditions of puppet theater

    31. Her hand was concealed in the folds of her dress and he cautiously wormed his hand to it and squeezed it, overwhelmed at his own boldness and at her acquiescence


    32. She wormed her way into Jack’s affections when he was grieving for his first wife


    33. ” Kyle Craig’s unmistakable voice wormed into my ear


    34. Stalin had wormed his way into power in Russia in the 1920s by the simple method of appointing most of the membership of the Russian Communist Party and then keeping them loyal to him (Chapter 4 has all the details)


    35. “Shut up and listen,” said Douglas, aggrieved that central intelligence had almost been wormed away from him


    36. Its apples wormed with man and gravity,


    37. Sammy by now had wormed his way up to the third rung, where he was floundering and panting breathlessly


    38. Descended from a race of meat eaters, never in his life, he thought, had he once satisfied his appetite for animal food; and so now his agile little body wormed its way far into the mass of struggling, rending apes in an endeavor to obtain a share which his strength would have been unequal to the task of winning for him


    39. To begin with, I hoped to have it out with him, and besides, what waa there in Lambert's having wormed his way in to him, and having talked to him of something ? But what rejoiced me most was an extraordinary sensation : it came from the thought


    40. He went away, came back again, was again turned out with ignominy, then wormed his way into Semyon Ivanovitch's good graces, robbed him incidentally of his new breeches, and now it appeared he had led Semyon Ivanovitch astray

    1. “This time I’m not,” Yellelle and began worming her way backwards thru the window til she was hanging from the windowsill


    2. The melody repeats over and over again, worming through the verse towards the heart of the chorus


    3. She’s so excited! I think her next excuse for worming her way out of going to the center is going to be that she doesn’t want to leave the house: she’s probably even going to want to sleep in it tonight


    4. my tongue, I prodded her tentatively at first, worming around the edges of her folds,


    5. “I was stil in the process of worming out information from him,


    6. More women joined them, worming their way to the fore or stretching in attempts to see over the men's shoulders


    7. Somehow he was worming into his mind and causing havoc


    8. western world and had been worming his way into the east with greater and


    9. " According to my father, I'm like Eve in the Bible story of creation and all men are apples of worming temptation


    10. Is that his home? she wondered, nerves worming in her belly

    11. It took them several minutes to finally work up the courage to lift the man into the wagon, and they did it only because the doctor warned them that with each passing moment the disease was worming its insidious, relentless way into the flesh and bones of their bodies and only his medicine in town could save them


    12. stuck here worming their way through the undergrowth as if intruders themselves, they


    13. Slime-covered octopus tentacles probed through his abdomen, worming between the steaming loops of his intestines


    14. For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his


    15. "I little like that smoke, which you may see worming up along the rock above the canoe," interrupted the abstracted scout


    16. Worming his way into everyone’s affections until you all preferred Ted to me


    17. ‘And what does she come worming herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind


    18. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head


    19. “And what does she come worming herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind


    1. You can also bury the kitchen wastes into your garden allowing the worms a meal


    2. Was the brush he was sitting in infecting him with poison or disease? Were there deadly diseases in the water? Much of the water had splashed over his foot, would the wound be full of worms if he survived til daylight?


    3. have you ever seen worms this big?”


    4. Forward and backward across the deck they pushed and pulled like giant inch worms, rubbing the thinned varnish into the grain of the wood, being careful not to step on the deck planks already coated


    5. He tries to think, tries to imagine how he could have given any cause for this to happen, but his head is full of worms


    6. Instead of eating them, Roman placed the worms one by one in


    7. The Worms Turn


    8. than helpless worms dangling on the end of a hook


    9. You have seen people eating creatures from their own sewage, creatures bred from intestinal worms by their ungodly science," coming at you in a wave as seen from Alfred's eyes


    10. According to scientists our ascendants, at a certain stage of development, were mono-cellular worms

    11. Galloping Gopher, on the other hand, was a devout omnivore, fully dedicated to and focused on her daily searching for a variety of grasses, seeds, nuts, berries, grains, and worms and insects (protein primers!) that might be found innocently and naively hanging out in her territorial domain


    12. Other Bible verses mention "worms" in connection with


    13. They had to eat a lot to feed their worms, but they didn't get stomach problems


    14. “And you… WORMS!” he shouted


    15. Stimulates digestion, heals wounds, and expels worms


    16. For just these few moments, I was in pure country bliss — the smell of the spring lilies sweeping through the air, the sun dancing through the early leaves and flowers of the blooming trees, the sounds of the morning robins looking for those worms, the excitement of our four legged fur-babies as I snuck them extra dog treats while Grandpa had his back turned (I was their favorite) — this was true joy for any young child born to be wild


    17. The trio stopped for a rest beside a small pool of water and Soffen ate the worms she'd gathered


    18. Hunting up some worms he sat and ate them in a despondent mood


    19. Later that moon, Brokin ate a good meal of worms, and set out on the long journey to the Brockenhurst Mountains, well satisfied with the way things were turning out for him


    20. Darkburst rested beneath a gnarled elder eating the worms he'd gathered earlier

    21. As she listened to this strange badger, Brightness slowly overcame her fear of him, and while he continued with his tale, she uncovered a store of worms at which Darkburst took quick impulsive bites, swallowing rapidly so that he could continue his narration


    22. The guard at the vent had joined the one searching for worms and together were now digging in the loose soil at the base of a nearby tree


    23. If the badger guarding the rock pile above him would just keep his attention focused on the two boars gathering worms for a while longer, Brokin knew that he would reach his objective with no problem


    24. Grindel picked over a pile of fat worms collected for him earlier, choosing the most succulent


    25. “They probably haven’t even seen their dicks in twenty years, but they’re still slaves to the little shriveled worms drooling like a pack of hungry dogs over these whores!”


    26. But they shifted constantly, as though the perspex skylight was covered with countless small fat worms wriggling across its surface


    27. In the infantry, a can of worms is grounds for mutiny


    28. Did she want to mention Leon and open that can of worms or lie? He glared at her for an answer


    29. “He feeds the crows, the foxes, the worms and the vultures


    30. Hilderich nodded silently and appreciatively before heading off to a nearby log of wood half of it rotting away, creeping with maggots and worms, what he had been taught was the basis of a healthy and fertile ground

    31. I knew that would be like opening up a big old can of worms at seven thirty in the morning and I didn’t feel like opening up that can


    32. In sightless worms, the many parts of the body transmit input to the brain concerning the immediate environment that surrounds it


    33. But it is not for us poor worms to nourish such thoughts


    34. His nerves twisted like worms in his stomach


    35. joy of this time is turning to worms and corruption,16 And every clamour of the pride of this time is turning into dust and stillness


    36. I asked how they had smuggled the silk worms out of lands of the Hanjen, but he didn’t seem to know


    37. He sees fish biting at the worms on the pole floating to the lake bottom


    38. There are giant glowing worms on the ocean floor the size of a big screen television


    39. And there I saw One who had the head of days; And His head was white like wool; And with Him was another being, whose countenance had the appearance of a man; And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels; And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and where he was, and why he went with the Head of Days? And he answered and said to me: This is the Son of Man, who has righteousness with whom dwells righteousness, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden; Because the Lord of Spirits has chosen him, and whose lot has the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness forever; And this Son of Man whom you have seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats, and the strong from their thrones; And shall loosen the reins of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners; And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms; Because they do not extol and praise Him; Nor humbly acknowledge from where the kingdom was bestowed on them; And he shall put down the countenance of the strong, and shall fill them with shame; And darkness shall be their dwelling; And worms shall be their bed, and they shall have no hope of rising from their beds, because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits; And these are those who judge the stars of Heaven, and raise their hands against the Most High, and tread on the Earth and dwell on it; And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness, and their power rests on their riches; And their faith is in the gods who they have made with their hands, and they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and they persecute the houses of His congregations, and the faithful, who hang onto the name of the Lord of Spirits


    40. 20 Notwithstanding they listened not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them

    41. My explanations that a) she had a good job as a lab technician with the USDA and b) was eight months pregnant, and, c) hence should not be flying just opened another can of worms


    42. 39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them


    43. it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with


    44. And there I saw One who had the head of days; And His head was white like wool; And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man; And his face was full of graciousness like one of the holy angels; And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things concerning that Son of Man who he was and where he was and why he went with the Head of Days? And he answered and said to me: This is the Son of Man who has righteousness with whom dwells righteousness and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden; Because the Lord of Spirits has chosen him and whose lot has the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness forever; And this Son of Man whom you have seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats and the strong from their thrones; And shall loosen the reins of the strong and break the teeth of the sinners; And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms; Because they do not extol and praise Him; Nor humbly acknowledge from where the kingdom was bestowed on them; And he shall put down the countenance of the strong and shall fill them with shame; And darkness shall be their dwelling; And worms shall be their bed and they shall have no hope of rising from their beds because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits; And these are those who judge the stars of Heaven and raise their hands against the Most High and tread on the Earth and dwell on it; And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness and their power rests on their riches; And their faith is in the gods who they have made with their hands and they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits and they persecute the houses of His congregations and the faithful who hang onto the name of the Lord of Spirits


    45. therapy, I had very effectively taken that can of worms and put it up


    46. response; my worn-out and overused lame excuses of worms,


    47. twin, or human teeth, or a colony of worms), so that's that


    48. to find worms to put into the beaks of its small and constantly hungry


    49. We were only paper worms, and a little better than that,


    50. 62 Fear not then the words of a sinful man for his glory shall be dung and worms














































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    Synonyms for "worm"

    worm dirt ball insect louse squirm twist wrestle wriggle writhe wretch reprobate creep brute scoundrel snake grub caterpillar maggot parasite crawl slither inch insinuate oneself sneak

    "worm" definitions

    any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae


    a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect


    a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network


    screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack


    to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)