1 The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 2 His lungs dilated and sank as if he were inhaling a warm moist unsustaining air and he smelt again the moist warm air which hung in the bath in Clongowes above the sluggish turf-coloured water.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 3 A crude grey light, mirrored in the sluggish water and a smell of wet branches over their heads seemed to war against the course of Stephen's thought.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 4 The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish.
5 The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish.
6 He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish ice.
7 It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
8 In her thought she traced its course as it ran down the hill to the sluggish Flint River, through the tangled swampy bottoms and up the next hill to Twelve Oaks where Ashley lived.
9 "I must have been over-tired last night; I think I had a nervous attack in the carriage," she said, as the drink brought clearness to her sluggish thoughts.
10 Some are blacker than the sluggish bear.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 11 It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 12 The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible.
13 A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
14 They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 15 Holmes's face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles