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Greasily

adverb
1.
In a greasy manner.






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"Greasily" Quotes from Famous Books



... hunched and nosed a space in the line fence, and slithered greasily through, Lad's work was cut out for him. It looked simple enough. But it was not simple. Nor ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune

... her temerity a most astounding thing happened. The man dropped the frying pan and it clattered to the floor, its contents spilling out greasily. While they looked he seemed to crumple, shrivel, and his eyes stared at them glassily out of his white mask of ...
— The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle - Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run • Laura Lee Hope

... immigrant parents, filled with the old Texas traditions, greasily shook hands with Wemple and Davies as well, saying "Howdy," as only the ...
— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London

... door, and opened it enough to take a greasily odorous candle from a dusky hand outside. As the sickly glimmer awakened the shadows, she called the woman back in sudden dismay. "My trunk, senora, kindly have it sent up at once. No," she added, catching a fluffy garment from a chair, ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... the top he understood, and recognised the metallic bars to which he clung. He was in the cage under the ball of St. Paul's. The dome rose but a little way above the general contour of the city, into the still twilight, and sloped away, shining greasily under a few distant lights, into ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... compromise, And, last, had bidden all the Arch-priest's troop To come and banquet with him in his house, Where they did wassail high by night and day And Father Pope sat at the board and carved Midst jokes that flowed full greasily, And priest and soldier trolled good songs for mass, And all the prayers the Priests made were, 'pray, drink,' And all the oaths the Soldiers swore were, 'drink!' Till Mirth sat like a jaunty postillon Upon the back of Time and urged him on With piquant spur, ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier



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