leech

Perhaps he knows better how deep his hurts are than does this leech.

He clung like a leech, dragging her closer in spite of all she 224 could do.

She knew both from Stephen and from the leech that this was far from being his condition.

Everything was food for the leech, but there was always the possibility of choking.

Everyone within two hundred miles of the leech was evacuated.

"We gotta get it out of the road," Flynn said, walking truculently up to the leech.

It hovered over the leech until, rising to the bait, it had followed.

Have you come to any conclusions about the nature of the leech?

The leech looked like a field of lava now, a blasted spot on the green Earth.

It was anthropomorphic of O'Donnell to see the leech as an enemy.