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slowworm
[ sloh-wurm ]
slowworm
/ ˈsləʊˌwɜːm /
noun
- a Eurasian legless lizard, Anguis fragilis, with a brownish-grey snakelike body: family Anguidae Also calledblindworm
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A silvery creature like a slowworm came crawling out from among them, slowly crossed the clay floor, and crept into the fire.
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Since then a large silvery slowworm was killed just there—a great pity, for they are perfectly harmless.
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But the blindworm, or slowworm, as this creature is called, is perfectly harmless.
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They are wrong; and they must be told that they are wrong, and scolded if they kill a slowworm.
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