Slinks

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of slink form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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creepretreatskulksneakwithdraw

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"As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay."

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