The blindworm coils where Queens have slept, nor asks. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
"He might have had some kind of herb, or maybe some juice from a blindworm, to make us blind.". From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
It was a greenly weaving ribbon of light, a snakelike stream of glowing, phosphorescent particles that moved like a blindworm over and across the vast rocky shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Of Dreams]
He waited at the station until an underground train snaked its way in like a giant blindworm, and went with it to the Temple and so to the quiet hotel he had chosen in Lincoln's Inn Fields. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
"I can understand the reasons why Andy is being spoken about because he is different," he revealed, adding "Apart from his size he is also a left-footed player" lest we might conclude that this difference involved living in a fridge, communicating only via the lyrics of The Carpenters and slithering around on his belly after dark like a blindworm. From Wordnik.com. [Will Andy Carroll prove the difference that destroys the planet?] Reference
The blindworm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet!. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blindworm battens on the root. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Then the face disappeared with the swiftness of a blindworm popping into its burrow, and the next thing that I remember is my own voice in my own ears, saying gravely to the mainmast, 'But the air-bladder ought to have been forced out of its mouth, you know.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference
Nevertheless we have a blindworm, to be found under logs, in woods and timber that hath lain long in a place, which some also do call (and upon better ground) by the name of slow-worms, and they are known easily by their more or less variety of striped colours, drawn long-ways from their heads, their whole bodies little exceeding a foot in length, and yet is their venom deadly. From Wordnik.com. [Of Savage Beasts and Vermin. Chapter XIV. [1577, Book III., Chapters 7 and 12; 1587, Book III., Chapters 4 and 6] Reference
The blindworm stretched him, drunk of sun. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The instinct of the blindworm has its part. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons] Reference
Idolatry of a blindworm, 16th c. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
Worms, blindworm of England, 45; 48, 50, 53, 81; nervous mechanism of, 205, 206; nervous system of, 256, 257. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
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