| Text | Length |
| Slippery | 8 |
| Hard to hold | 12 |
| Slithery | 8 |
| Wriggling | 9 |
| Elusive | 7 |
| Slippery and slithery | 21 |
| Sinuous | 7 |
| Serpentine | 10 |
| Hard to catch | 13 |
| Slippery and snaky | 18 |
| Hard to handle | 14 |
| Difficult to grasp | 18 |
| Congerlike | 10 |
| Slimy and serpentine | 20 |
| Wriggly and slippery | 20 |
| Snakelike | 9 |
| Like a conger | 13 |
| Wriggly | 7 |
| Wet and snakelike | 17 |
| Slimy | 5 |
| Like a long, slithery fish | 26 |
| Hard to keep hold of | 20 |
| Hard to hold on to | 18 |
| Hard to hang on to | 18 |
| Challenging to corner | 21 |
| Wriggly, slippery and serpentine | 32 |
| Squirming | 9 |
| Sorta fishy, sorta snaky | 24 |
| Slithering | 10 |
| Lampreylike | 11 |
| Wriggly and hard to grasp | 25 |
| Squiggly | 8 |
| Slippery like a fish | 20 |
| Slippery and slimy | 18 |
| Prone to wriggling | 18 |
| Long and slimy | 14 |
| Like elvers | 11 |
| Like a greased pig | 18 |
| Lamprey-like | 12 |
| Hard to catch, in a way | 23 |
| Elusive, slippery | 17 |
| Elusive, in a way | 17 |
| Elusive and slippery | 20 |
| Wriggly and slippery, e.g. | 26 |
| Wriggly and slimy | 17 |
| Wet and wriggly | 15 |
| Very slippery | 13 |
| Very hard to handle | 19 |
| Tough to tackle | 15 |
| Tough to hold | 13 |
| Tough to get hold of | 20 |
| Tough to catch | 14 |
| Too slippery and slimy to grasp | 31 |
| Squiggly and wriggly | 20 |
| Smooth and slippery | 19 |
| Slippery in a fishy way | 23 |
| Slippery and hard to catch | 26 |
| Serpentlike | 11 |
| Really wiggly | 13 |
| Not easy to hang onto | 21 |
| Not easily held | 15 |
| Moray-like | 10 |
| Long, wet, and snakelike | 24 |
| Long and squirmy | 16 |
| Like a snipefish | 16 |
| Like a moray | 12 |
| Hard to hold down | 17 |
| Hard to get hold of | 19 |
| Hard to capture | 15 |
| Electric? | 9 |
| Difficult to hold | 17 |
| Anguilliform | 12 |
| Poetic contraction | 18 |
| Poetic word | 11 |
| Quaint contraction | 18 |
| Bard's nightfall | 20 |
| Poetic time | 11 |
| Poet's word | 15 |
| Poetic time of day | 18 |
| Still, in verse | 15 |
| Poet's contraction | 22 |
| Dusk, to Donne | 14 |
| Velvet finish? | 14 |
| Suffix for "velvet" | 29 |
| Poetic dusk | 11 |
| Morn's opposite | 19 |
| Harold of comics | 16 |
| Suffix with velvet | 18 |
| Poetic nightfall | 16 |
| Twilight, to Tennyson | 21 |
| Poet's adverb | 17 |
| Twilight time, to Tennyson | 26 |
| Tennyson's twilight | 23 |
| Suffix for velvet | 17 |
| Night of poetry | 15 |
| Hallow ending | 13 |
| Tennyson's dusk | 19 |
| Poetic period | 13 |
| Nighttime, poetically | 21 |
| After dark, poetically | 22 |
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