The enemy were on the hills and looked mightier, for they were revealed among red flashes of their guns, and stood partly visible above clouds of hostile smoke and through clouds of their own, which grasped viscously by the skirts of the hills.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
And this applies, not only to a fluid, but to a body which will yield viscously to an impressed force.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly
The downward movement viscously slowed; then the metal, suddenly alive with the capacity to defy gravity, circled upward.
"The Junkmakers"
Albert R. Teichner