That love should be capable of ending in such vermiculate results as too often appear, is no more against the loveliness of the divine idea, than that the forms of man and woman, the spirit gone from them, should degenerate to such things as may not be looked upon.
"Malcolm"
George MacDonald
My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.
"Wilfrid Cumbermede"
George MacDonald
What a breeding nest of vermiculate cares and pains was this human heart of ours!
"Thomas Wingfold, Curate"
George MacDonald