"(James) Garfield has shown that he is not possessed of the backbone of an angleworm," said Ulysses S. From Wordnik.com. [Fiery Attacks Dominate 2010 Midterm Elections] Reference
A man could even exhibit an angleworm in a bottle and call it the infant anaconda, and escape being lynched. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Joe climbed in, sat with his thighs stretched wide, knees over the rests, heels braced-not too comfortable as he was not angleworm-limber the way she was. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
"If we only had a canoe up here what a great time we'd have fishing," said Josh, who was particularly fond of casting a fly for a trout or bass, and scorned to use the humble angleworm, as ordinary fishermen do. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
Each hair is about the thickness of a large angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [Thuvia, Maid of Mars] Reference
"(James) Garfield has shown that he is not possessed of the backbone of an angleworm," said. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Sarasota Herald-Tribune] Reference
He didn't need to wait -- as the birds did -- until an angleworm stuck his head above ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
"Don't waste your valuable time looking for the biggest angleworm in the garden!" he told her. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
Instead, he stood on the limb a little distance away from them and showed them a plump angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Jolly Robin] Reference
SOMEHOW Grandfather Mole heard that Mrs. Robin hoped to capture the biggest angleworm in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
"A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angleworm in halves, And ate the fellow, raw.". From Wordnik.com. [The Albert Lea Tribune] Reference
It was only the hens looking for something to eat -- a bit of grain amid the straw, or perhaps an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Chirpy Cricket] Reference
Orestes was already tucked away in bed, having dined early on three grasshoppers and an angleworm for dessert. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade on Mystery Trail] Reference
We are in the A, B, C class in powers of repair by comparison with the angleworm, the lobster, or the salamander. From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
Grumpy Weasel was quick to see that fat Mrs. Hen swallowed every word he said as greedily as if it had been an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grumpy Weasel Sleepy-Time Tales] Reference
And poking his drill-like snout into the earth, he drew forth a huge angleworm, which quickly disappeared down his throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
After Jolly Robin had gulped down the fat angleworm with which his father had coaxed him to leave the nest, he clung desperately to the limb. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Jolly Robin] Reference
His pretty speeches pleased Mrs. Hen so much that she actually let a fat angleworm get away from her because she hadn't her mind on what she was doing. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grumpy Weasel Sleepy-Time Tales] Reference
To the gods in Olympus it would have appeared to have all the characteristic color and shape of an angleworm, without, however, enjoying that reptile's excellent good health. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference
"Stranger," broke in Windy Bill, with great emphasis, "as to that snake, I want you to understand this: yereafter in my estimation that snake is nothin 'but an ornery angleworm!". From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
And when he added that he hadn't seen an angleworm for two days there were a few of his bird companions that began to think perhaps there was some reason in his remarks, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
These at any rate were uncivilized-trout, and it was only when we took the advice of the young McGregor and baited our hooks with the angleworm, that the fish joined in our day's sport. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
Elzbieta was one of the primitive creatures: like the angleworm, which goes on living though cut in half; like a hen, which, deprived of her chickens one by one, will mother the last that is left her. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
He evidently believed that Balaam carried the celestial thunderbolts concealed about his person -- that when he turned them loose those on whom they alighted frizzled up like a fat angleworm on a sea-coal fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference
More than once, when Grandfather Mole had advised her to "try a smaller one," Mrs. Robin had declared afterward that she wished she could catch the biggest angleworm in the whole garden, just to spite old Grandfather. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
"He isn't an angleworm, I know that much, but just what sort he is I don't know. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Stuffed Elephant] Reference
Call that a snake! "cried Russ, as he picked up a rather large and squirming angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
I know!), and that blessed boy is tread under foot as if he warn't no better 'n an angleworm!. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
The children will like him, if I can ever pull him loose! "you may know at once that the speaker is talking about an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Grandfather Mole] Reference
Trout, and it was only when we took the advice of the young McGregor and baited our hooks with the angleworm, that the fish joined in our day's sport. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
"I ain't lookin 'for him to come back this last time," remarked Hiram, with much conviction; "unless there's an inch drain-pipe there and he comes up it like an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
A rolling hen never catches the early angleworm. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883] Reference
A June bug married an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
He hadn't the backbone of an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
He hasn't got the backbone of an angleworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoilers] Reference
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