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c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies iii. v. sig. E2 Floud with red-growne slime bankes.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 241 Here is also..a muddy bath. [margin] Slime bath.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 370 Each joyful sailor..with firm tugs the rollers from the brine, Reluctant dragg'd, the slime-brown'd anchors raise.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. ix. 148 I saw the boat..waiting for them at the slime-washed stairs.

1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest i. ii. 23 The crocodile,..slime-begotten of old.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 338 More specimens of those awful slime lagoons.