This gelatinous layer is thick and also viscid, and when the plants are placed on paper to dry, it Glues them firmly to the sheet.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
As he did not perhaps succeed in painting with perfection, he was at least anxious to know the peculiarities of the colours, the temperas, the Glues and of chalks, and what colours one ought to avoid mixing as injurious, and in short many other hints which I need not dilate upon, since all these matters, which he then considered very great secrets, are now universally known.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari
But, once down, a boat is scarcely ever raised again; because, you see, the mud silts up round it and over it, and Glues it, as it were, to the bottom of the river.
"Over the Sliprails"
Henry Lawson