In her despair she would have sunk down where she stood had not the sliminess of the water repelled her.
"Into the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet
Before I could detain her, even had I sought to do so, she stepped into the filthy water, struggled to recover her foothold, and sank above her waist into its sliminess.
"The Quest of the Sacred Slipper"
Sax Rohmer
Their Gums are in a bad State, and as though they had been gnawed or corroded: they have often the Hickup, a small and irregular Pulse, Ravings, and, what is one of the least doubtful Symptoms, frequently a small dry Cough; and not seldom a Mucosity or sliminess in their Stools: sometimes very long and violent Cholics, which terminate in an Abscess on the Outside of the Belly, from whence Worms issue.
"Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health"
Samuel Auguste David Tissot