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It becomes softened as the result of congestion, and the glands are more active, secreting a thick glairy mucus.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
He had a remittent chronic intestinal catarrh, with—noticeably during the periods of exacerbation—abundant discharge of a glairy mucus.
From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig
If they had visited Mr. Anthony's upper rooms, they would have seen a row of young women before certain broad, shallow pans filled with the glairy albumen which once enveloped those potential fowls.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
The fangs are enclosed in a soft, pulpy sheath, the inner surface of which is commonly coated with a thin glairy secretion.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
They leave a glairy trail everywhere they go.
From The Romantic by May Sinclair
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