He gave up and lay still, but his mind fastened, leechlike, on the name word.

The important thing was to stay calm, and to stick leechlike to this one tremendous subject.

At the front she saw no eyes, only a cluster of leechlike sucking mouths.

It sucked, leechlike, at Sidroc's boots, trying to pull them off his feet.

I wriggled my leg harder, trying to shake off the leechlike grip.

Dust and soot had fastened leechlike upon the glistening stuff.

Marty leaned forward across the table, trying to blot out Somervale's leechlike presence.

There was an abomination fastened leechlike to the cow.

The jewel melts and turns into a writhing blob with a leechlike mouth.

It was as if they possessed a life of their own, whirling upon themselves, breaking into pieces and attaching themselves, leechlike, onto others.

It was ominous how religious fanatics like Aquila so often fastened themselves, leechlike, to wives of the wealthy.

And then it began to dawn on him: There were not merely enough similarities; for the big leechlike creatures, there were too many.

Dig: Sweaty swarms of tattered toddlers tackling tourists and latching onto them leechlike.

It was a repulsive creature, like a squashed frog with a furry tail and a sort of leechlike sucker where the head should be.

Her jump ended two paces in front of the flat rock, Dierna, and the thing fastened leechlike to Dierna's cheek.

The Branchiobdellida are leechlike clitellates that were formerly included in the Hirudinea, but are just really close relatives.

Extinction of the master race was preferable to its subjugation under mongrel species that would fasten leechlike on the body of the people and drain off their vitality.

This creature he'd called Abelove, after a lawyer he'd known briefly in the Fifth, who'd been as leechlike as this scrap of malice, and almost as foul smelling.

Not only do these worms have the most leechlike DNA of any animal, but they also grow the same sucker on the base of their tail that leeches use for crawling.

Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage.

Not so much fear of death, or pain, as of the unknown terror of the moment-this loathsome beast that he could not see, this great leechlike nightmare attached and sucking and squeezing at his body.

I detached her gently from her twig and she writhed in anger, exposing her paler stomach and all her spiky little paws that clung leechlike to the branch to which I returned her.

The main Martian life-forms-the "roving stones" browsing on the mineral deserts, the leechlike predators that hunted them in the desperate battle for existence, the yet fiercer parasites that preyed on them-showed only the dimmest flickers of intelligence.

The gold his father had received from the fifth King Mithridates in return for the cession of most of Phrygia to Pontus had long gone, yet the odium of that deed continued to cling leechlike to the son.

Where Pompey the dreamer differed from all others of that sort was in the quality of his contact with reality-he saw the actual world with hard and sharp acuity, never missed possibility or probability, fastened his mind leechlike upon facts the size of mountains, facts as diminutive as one drop of clearest water.