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Daniel Ortel had caught a catfish like that before evacuating with the National Guard, and when Daniel touched it, the fish’s skin sloughed off like pudding.

Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II (Chapter 5) – Brian Keene 2008

At the time we were living in Campeche (I think) and were vaguely aware that Tamps had changed plates, but kind of sloughed it off, in no small part due to the difficulty in renewing plates in a state so far from where we lived.

what else? cars. 2006

But you kind of sloughed over the prettiest face here outside of Margaret Scrivener.

The Olympics and Toronto 1989

"I kind of sloughed off in high school my first couple of years," the Northfield High School alumnus says.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV 2009

Good question, but I'm not sure I agree 100% -- Quasar the cultist sloughed off his old life to be free from the responsibility of free will -- sort of brushing off the fruit of forbidden knowledge and trying to hang it on the tree.

David Mitchell discusses his first novel, Ghostwritten 2010

Most people, staked in things as they are, aren't eager to grasp what seems so clear to youths who aren't yet "settled down," to underdogs and eccentrics who've never been integrated, to the newly dispossessed, and to oldsters who've sloughed off the harness of convention and conventional wisdom.

Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011

The itching was so bad a coworker said Seaman would scrub his feet with a wire brush until his skin sloughed off like scales of a fish.

Rocky Kistner: As Dolphins Die, Gulf Residents Ask What About Us? Rocky Kistner 2011

Most people, staked in things as they are, aren't eager to grasp what seems so clear to youths who aren't yet "settled down," to underdogs and eccentrics who've never been integrated, to the newly dispossessed, and to oldsters who've sloughed off the harness of convention and conventional wisdom.

Jim Sleeper: Markets, New Media, the Occupiers, and the Next Step Jim Sleeper 2011

I sloughed through it this time, finally rewarded with a few actions scenes, and some very interesting plot.

“Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, 2004) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

I sloughed through it this time, finally rewarded with a few actions scenes, and some very interesting plot.

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