slime-blooded

Updated: May 20, 2025

Dealing with any but Normans, he had never had his six days. But the Norman people, as Abbot Milo says, 'slime-blooded, slow-bellies, are withal great eaters of beef, which breeds in them, as well as a heaviness of motion, a certain slumbrous rage very dangerous to mankind.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay