à ‚  While poaching in the Florida Everglades, Lem Sawyer [George Cisar] fires five shots into a giant leechlike creature, but none of the old boys lolling around in Dave Walkerâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s [Bruno VeSota] General Store will buy that it was anything other than one too many swigs on Lemâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s jug of moonshine. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Instead, I felt an enormous pressure as, by means of its rubbery lips, it affixed itself with leechlike determination, and then there was the slap of its body against my chest, for it had pulled free from my hand. ❋ William James Henry (2010)
The main Martian life-forms-the "roving stones" browsing on the mineral deserts, the leechlike predators that hunted them in the desperate battle for existence, the yet fiercer parasites that preyed on them-showed only the dimmest flickers of intelligence. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So I won't actually be gnawing my wrists open to rid the world of my leechlike presence once I finish this review. ❋ Hawkwing_lb (2007)
Finding somewhat fishy the way aliens and extraterrestrials in sci-fi always seem to speak in perfect (usually British-accented) English, Adams introduced a strange character in his novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- a tiny linguistic deus ex machina in the form of a miraculous fish: "The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe," Adams wrote. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Surely this neo-imperialist, fascist, leechlike commodity originates from the predatory capitalist vulture nation of America, which is run by the foolish, stupid Bush cabal funded by exploitative Zionist monopoly capital. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It sucked, leechlike, at Sidroc's boots, trying to pull them off his feet. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2002)
It was that misguiding, leechlike parasite called hope. ❋ Francine Pascal (2001)
Clinging leechlike to the rocking sideboard, he struggled to peer over the side. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
Where Pompey the dreamer differed from all others of that sort was in the quality of his contact with reality-he saw the actual world with hard and sharp acuity, never missed possibility or probability, fastened his mind leechlike upon facts the size of mountains, facts as diminutive as one drop of clearest water. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
I wriggled my leg harder, trying to shake off the leechlike grip. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
The gold his father had received from the fifth King Mithridates in return for the cession of most of Phrygia to Pontus had long gone, yet the odium of that deed continued to cling leechlike to the son. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
There was an abomination fastened leechlike to the cow. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1986)
Amelia or Bella or Cinderella been clinging leechlike to my consciousness through all the years of my training? ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Dust and soot had fastened leechlike upon the glistening stuff. ❋ Van Vogt, A. E. (1946)
The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
