1 It was, he supposed more of a force or a radiance, controlling the thrush and the worm; the tulip and the hound; and himself, too, an old man with swollen veins.
2 She touched her bony forehead upon which a blue vein wriggled like a blue worm.
3 Where the worm weaves its winding sheet.
4 She was kind to Connie, and tried to worm into her woman's soul with the sharp gimlet of her well-born observations.
5 He would only squirm softer and softer, like a worm, and become more dislocated.
6 The worm does not work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.
7 The first sting inflicted by this cruel worm will be the memory of past pleasures.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 8 They will repent indeed: and this is the second sting of the worm of conscience, a late and fruitless sorrow for sins committed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 9 This is the last and deepest and most cruel sting of the worm of conscience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 Beyond the river he saw a goods train winding out of Kingsbridge Station, like a worm with a fiery head winding through the darkness, obstinately and laboriously.
11 What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
12 I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale 13 He stopped on it to look for a worm.
14 Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice tha... 15 But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation.