birdlime

1 Back and forth they went, gluing the grass to the birdlime until it was covered up.

2 She noticed that the tree trunk was still scarred by foot holes and the birdlime barrier was still intact.

3 Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements.

4 He then put some of the birdlime into their eyes, and fixed their eyelids together, so that they could not open them.

5 For I know not how it is, but these things are like birdlime: a man's soul sticks to them, and will not easily come away; they have grown to be a part of him.

6 He proceeded to hoist a leafless branch, smeared with birdlime, in a conspicuous place, and not far off he deposited a cage, with a bird in it.

7 I felt like a butterfly just newly burst from the chrysalis, with a world of flowers and sunshine all around it, but with one leg unfortunately immersed in birdlime.

8 Others are for always being dragons, but that is sure to scare off the men; and as I say, what's the use of birdlime if you 're always shouting and screaming!

9 Here and there were long birdlime streaks of a ghostly white staining the tower from sea to air, readily accounting for its sail-like look afar.

10 The fools! was birdlime so scarce a thing amongst them?—and were the properties of warm water so unknown to them, that they could not close a pair of eyes and open them?’

11 I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them.

12 He is a citizen's birdlime, and where he holds he hangs.

13 The p. 231fools! was birdlime so scarce a thing amongst them?—and were the properties of warm water so unknown to them, that they could not close a pair of eyes and open them?”

14 Its birdlime gleams in the golden rays like the whitewash of a tall light-house, or the lofty sails of a cruiser.

15 The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering.

16 Everything was plentifully besmeared with birdlime, and basins of the mixture were set in all directions, strewn with rice, maize, and other dainties for bait.

17 Karl and Caspar expected to see their companion once more try his stratagem of the birdlime and the leaves; and such at first was his intention.

18 Moist gum-like tears drop from this mournful tree; And see, it sticks like birdlime; 'twill not part, Sorrow is even such birdlime at my heart.

19 Around the cabin are placed avenues with twisted perches, also covered with birdlime.

20 On the following morning we were early astir; and as soon as breakfast was over, we went regularly to work with the birdlime.

1 黏鸟胶

lime

2 阿谀

buttery candied sycophantic adulatory oleaginous morigeration adulation subservience palaver sycophancy butter flatter jolly soft-soap brownnose

3 圈套

lime-twig plant web catch net pan trap snare pitfall gimmick hooker toil noose cobweb catch-22 weenie trepan

4 甜言蜜语

honey-tongued well-oiled fair spoken sweet talk

5 粘鸟胶

lime