Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. |
The high big suns and hot big colours of Nigeria are replaced by a grim wash of grey clouds, a sky as cheerful as the inside of an eggbox and the greasily unlovely streets of Peckham. |
I do remember one memorable year when the turkey slipped off the pan as my grandmother was taking it out of the oven and slid greasily across the kitchen floor. |
He plunges the pellet into the night-light, where it swells and fumes greasily. |
To the south the flat expanse of Lake Dokan shone greasily in the low evening light like fish scales. |
A side order of courgette fritters might have been more delicately and less greasily battered but this too was enjoyable in a chipshop way. |