| 单词 | oozy |
| 例句 | I almost lose it right there, taking that first step, because it's a gunky pond and the mud is really oozy and deep and it sucks right up to my knees. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought maybe her leg was bothering her, as it seemed to be redder and oozier than ever. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She points to her wound, which is oozy, and clearly needs redressing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Cracked his lip so it swelled up like an earthworm struck with a shovel—all purple and oozy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Make sure you tell whoever’s looking after him tonight to rub his belly. It seems to help. And to change the dressing on his blisters. One of them is oozy.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Nausea began to spread through his stomach, warm and oozy and evil. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For the sake of your own taste buds, I hope you don't scoff at ricotta or turn your nose up at an oozy burrata. Cottage cheese isn't tasteless — you just need to buy the good stuff 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It is at its best serving up casual, likable fare: sweet-and-sour wings, oozy mac and cheese, a burger that gets a kick of spice from a chipotle aioli. Roofers Union review: ‘Top Chef’ puts the spotlight on Marjorie Meek-Bradley 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Before we know it, women are baring their souls and are then taught to swing their hips in an oozy "S walk." Netflix's pole dance therapy film "Strip Down, Rise Up" exploits trauma & is fixated on male gaze 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Garlicky yogurt gets drizzled in peppery oil and delicate, oozy eggs, a combination that's somehow incredibly bold and incredibly comforting. Çılbır is a garlic lover's dream 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Then roughly a decade ago, serious west coast stoners started experimenting with various concentrates with oozy textures like honey and butter, or budder”. Wanna get really high? Take a dab in the world of concentrates 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Sunday, as if in recompense, the same network premieres The Strain, an oozy, disgusting vampire drama that is just as ridiculous as it should be. REVIEW: The Strain on FX 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z This recipe is case in point, as a mixture of roasted red peppers, green olives, fresh basil and mozzarella add punchy antipasto flavors and oozy, melted-cheese appeal to a simple chicken-and-greens meal. These chicken breasts are delightfully stuffed, but they won’t leave you feeling that way 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z One, for example, like Spacey’s Frank Underwood from “House of Cards” — an oozy reptile whom viewers nevertheless root for. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes, a basic grilled cheese — you know, the standby white bread and oozy American cheese variety — hits just right. The secret ingredient in this magical grilled cheese is pumpkin butter 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z In New York, we must salute it as a small miracle: The meld of nuts and butter is half crunch, half cream, the sugar near-liquid and oozy. Small Miracles, Wrapped in Pancakes, at Let’s Makan 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Some of his sculptures look like things that were fished from tidal pools: extravagant crustaceans, tangles of kelp and a variety of oozy, amphibious eel-ish critters. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z Do watch the time: You want your eggs just set and a little oozy. A Christmas Morning Casserole That Can Dress Up for a Party 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Over a murky, oozy track with synthesizer chords that climb patiently only to fall back to where they started, Masego sings about “Looking like you’re in disguise every day/Breathing my own breath.” Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z “Sleeping Boy I” is an oversize youth whose body was fashioned from viscous oozy material like wet clay or plaster before being cast in bronze; it evokes ancient Greek sculpture via Rodin. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z After a boozy, oozy lunch, vengeful Don rigs it so that Roger is forced to climb a skyscraper's worth of stairs in a rush to meet important clients back at the office. Rogue male 2013-04-07T17:00:01Z As a tart, it is a little self-contained bit of oozy, syrupy, sugary heaven in a bite-sized shell that you have to eat all up at once before it runs out. Where Has This Treat Been All Your Life? Canada 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Its songs are smoke thick and oozy, and while Ms. Adu never appears to be working very hard, her voice is lustrous, spreading out smoothly over the band’s trancelike R&B and stoic rock. Music Review: A Singer in No Rush, Deploying Her Big Gestures Carefully 2011-06-22T22:19:04Z Lakshmi takes a moment to describe it:, oozy cheese, creamy beans, savory mushrooms. Padma Lakshmi's political "Taste the Nation" food series could not have debuted at a better time 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There's a curative element to pizza: the warm, quasi-sodden cardboard box, the oozy cheese, the dependable crust. Formaggio! An Italian-American's guide to choosing the best cheese for your pizza 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s all about pustules that smell and are oozy! Style Invitational Week 1129: Cut up with Scherenschnitte 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And of course, oozy, gooey, and melted is cheese in its highest form. Is cheese actually addictive? Here's the real science 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Getting that optimal level of crisply toasted bread and oozy filling is a delicate art. The secret to the perfect grilled cheese, revealed 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z And hands, pulling apart that cheesy spinach dip mozzarella stick for the oozy money shot. Hands and bowls and melty cheese! Why does every Web recipe video look the same? 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s a high viscosity show, oozy and murky, spreading itself along unexpected paths. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z I drooled a little watching Machado and Mark take bites of the face-sized empanadas, which were perfectly golden brown, bubbly in the right spots and oozy, not greasy. In ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ the Empanadas Are to Die For 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Based on marine forms — shells, starfish, squids — these pieces, with their oozy, light-reflective glazes, look to be squeezed from ocean-bed muck and tinted with primal slime. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The best way to eat it is with your hands, ripping off the sides of the boat and dipping them into the oozy cheese. Plate Lab: Khachapuri is Georgian bread with cheese, eggs, butter. What’s not to like? For that grilled cheese, for example, “you’re only going to get that rainbow with the cheese pull, and it’s really hard to do a perfect pull,” said Somers, referring to the just-melted, oozy strands. This is your food on acid: Why edible rainbows have taken over the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Ultimately, she compromised and made a round of pizza dough, fried and smeared with oozy chocolate-hazelnut spread. When does pizza stop being pizza? 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He’s a young star not as beholden to the expectations of genre elders, but with a rich, oozy voice that would have been as resonant two or four or six decades ago. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Roughly half the eggs revealed off-center yolks that turned stiff and chalky at the edge while the whites remained oozy at the center. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z A buzz picked up around her: killer voice, that cherubic face and unapologetic size-14-ness, her oozy sass. The girl with the mighty mouth 2011-03-27T00:02:01Z To scroll through Erewhon’s tagged photos on Instagram is to behold a cornucopia of oozy, colorful açaí bowls, cross-section shots of vibrant lunch wraps and a staggering collection of hands holding juice-filled containers. How Erewhon Became L.A.’s Hottest Hangout 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Some pastry chefs disagree, preferring neater, prettier products without any oozy over-spill. How to transform a bakery croissant into something marvelous 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In the center was a sliver of portobello mushroom, and an oozy shot of molten cheese that explodes onto your face if you bite too quick. Chain Reaction: Mushroom burger edition 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In the middle of a Twix bar is a buttery, crisp strip of shortbread, which is decked in oozy caramel and mild milk chocolate. Treat yourself to fancy versions of your favorite childhood Halloween candies 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Beck begins by exclaiming "Giddy up" four times, before moving into a slow, oozy funk beat over which he repeatedly croons, "It's like wow/ It's like right now." Beck's Colors Finds Joy In Its Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I opt for the jalapeño-popper-inspired one topped with an oozy medley of jalapeño cream cheese and cheddar. On the search for antiques in small Upstate New York towns Del Rey excels at a kind of rumbling, oozy stasis — it’s like the ecstasy of being caught in a spider’s web — but Swift’s vocals are a mite too cheery to achieve the same effect. Taylor Swift, Caught Between Yesterday and Tomorrow on ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The sandwich’s crackly pressed exterior gave way to juicy roast pork and sliced ham topped with thin sliced pickles, oozy Swiss American cheese and a tangy mustard. Take the fast ferry to Des Moines for lunch — there might be orcas en route 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The pupusas are pancake thin, a crispy, crunchy exterior giving way to a creamy inside with just the right amount of oozy cheese and filling. Find artful charcuterie, red corn tacos and pupusas in West Seattle 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “They just exactly fit the description — upper body, big red welts, very itchy, clear oozy bit at the center.” Oak mites making D.C.-area residents itchy; tiny bugs feed on cicadas 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Rudy Giuliani held one news conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, and another where something dark and oozy — melting hair dye? — trickled down his cheek. Opinion | Trump came in promising so much winning. He’s going out with so much whining. 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “Oil is voluminous and oozy and poisonous and flammable and smelly,” Mr. Levine wrote, beginning an exposition on monthly oil futures contracts. A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Street Like None Other (See Footnote) 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Buttery puff pastry, oozy cheese and layered potatoes, this pie elevates comfort food to be a vegetarian main worthy of a Christmas feast. The 20 best Christmas baking recipes 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Enjoy the meld of crispy chicken, hearty waffle, oozy maple syrup and the vegan’s nightmare: bacon butter. Four Hours: Manhattan Beach offers surfside places to relax and recharge 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The burgers look smaller here, a little neater and more compact, less oozy and glistening. Welcome to Special Rich Guest Hamburger, the China edition of Fatburger 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Anyone who spends more than 30 seconds scrolling through pictures of food will know what whets a snapper’s appetite: avocado toast, oozy eggs, neon bagels and slabs of vaguely sinister raw meat. Unicorn lollies and six million avocados: our insatiable appetite for Instafood 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Kaul has an oozy, aspirated voice, and smears it tactfully atop Mr. Lam’s euphoric, quick-stepping production, which bridges fiery garage and joyous disco. The Playlist: Nine Inch Nails and Shabazz Palaces Issue Retorts for Anxious Times 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z This dinner-party favourite takes an update, hiding nuggets of a favourite Christmas sweet in its oozy centre. The 20 best Christmas baking recipes 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Her work includes lovely descriptions of the physical realities of being a person, of having a body “soft and porous, receptive of fluid and sticky, womanlike in its oozy sliminess.” The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The final touches are a steam punk look with rivets, textured fabrics and a patterned, oozy and highly mesmerizing multi- color light show. Buy this giant, flame-shooting scorpion truck from Burning Man 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “So oozy, hypocritical, praise-mad, canting, envious, concupiscent,” Samuel Coleridge described him in his notebooks. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z I choreographed dances to "Raspberry Beret," strutted to Sheila E’s "Glamorous Life," collected B-side tapes, and backtracked to discover the oozy funk of "Dirty Mind." Dearly beloved: The Verge staff reflects on Prince's life and music 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z They say your brain chews on it, but it’s more like picking at a scab, not thinking it’ll come off and then it does and your scrape is all gross and oozy again. How to be human: why do I obsess over my cheating ex? 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z In this recipe, Mr. Shaya’s second Slow Food Fast contribution, he tops fried haloumi, crisp on the outside and oozy at the center, with earthy figs, watercress and a lemon vinaigrette. Alon Shaya’s Recipe for Pan-Fried Haloumi with Figs and Watercress 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z You are probably going to want a piece of the flaky, oozy slab pie for dessert. Lobster rolls and 'HoJo-style' clams at Catch & Release 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Bone marrow is apparently still banned in Japan, but the taste for the oozy offal lingers. At Kinjiro in Little Tokyo, ride the izakaya range with a Cowboy 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Throughout the study, I could feel the band oozily creeping up the back of my skull, like an ill-fitting graduation cap. Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z He cleaves to what we ask of our monsters, that they be both amorphous and acute: oozily hard to pin down, but manifestly there, like a knife against the throat. “The Imitation Game” and “The Babadook” Reviews 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z A serving of Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper, to take one oozy example, adds 110 calories to a 310-calorie serving of the final product. Is Renewable Energy Just 'Hamburger Helper'? 2013-07-18T17:17:00Z No matter how icky and oozy a poison ivy rash looks, the rash itself is not contagious, Vreeman says. Summer myths, such as one shouldn’t swim for 30 minutes after eating, are bunk 2012-06-18T19:45:17Z He first of all sows his seed in a plot of land that is full of water, and they fall into the soft oozy mud at the bottom and take root. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z The mountains fall away, and low bottoms, sometimes oozy with the inflowing river or the creeks from the forests, stretch away in the lazy, hazy distance. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z “Near Gravesend several ships drove on shore below Tilbury Fort, and among them five bound for the West Indies; but as the shore is oozy and soft, the vessels sat upright and easy.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z They were these: We're the soft putty crew, Dripping the oozy glue, Squeezing our resins through Cranny and crack. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z Many a gallant gentleman, many a nobleman of France, trod the black mould and oozy mosses of the forest with feet that had pressed the carpets of Versailles. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z We cross over the bridges that span salty channels, oozy and redolent of ocean and sea-weed during the hours of ebb. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Both men were still wet from head to foot and literally covered with the thick, oozy mud when the Auto Boys reached them. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z The outlying cottages bore the stamp of squalor and ague, standing in oozy sludge. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The Rambler lay in a bed of soft, oozy mud, with harder ground between her and the “tow-head.” The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z He stretched his wings to fly away, But round his feet the oozy clay Gripped fast, and held him to the ground. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z If there's anything he hates, it is that kind of oozy writing. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The traveler describes the cayman, which is of enormous size—the whale of the oozy lagoon. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z A very meaty moussaka, wafting nutmeg, was layered with vegetables and oozy, thick béchamel, which also anchored pastitsio, a heavy but tasty macaroni and meat dish. | Thornwood: Mythos in Thornwood Offers Authentic Greek Dishes 2011-10-01T02:08:38Z At last, with a whoop and a yell and a groan, it was hoisted out of its oozy prison and drawn onto the veldt, when the oxen were outspanned and breakfast was eaten. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z In preparing these we trampled a strip of oozy ground until, in the darkness, it had the appearance of a narrow plash of water. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z For in November the ten might have been four times ten fat and lusty, lazy fellows, boring the oozy margins of these same pools where the frogs are croaking and the toads are singing to-day. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z He fell into a pit of slime, sinking to the waist, and lost precious time floundering in its oozy grip before he dragged himself out. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z They climb through oozy weeds and moss; They swarm its rotting sides and toss Their firefly torches o'er its edge Or hang them in the tangled sedge. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z A cloud of wheeling, soaring vultures, a few piles of charred and shattered wreckage, and many an oozy, shining pool of gore. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z And it wasn't unusual to find us sitting around the kitchen table with our hands coated in a green, oozy cornstarch-and-water mixture, wondering at its weird properties. Welcome to 'Bring Science Home' 2011-05-02T11:15:02.457Z It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy—all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified Strawberry. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z In time: twoeight! —rivers are tunneled: trestles cross oozy swampland: wheels repeating the same gesture remain relatively stationary: rails forever parallel return on themselves infinitely. Sour Grapes A Book of Poems 2011-03-25T02:00:10.780Z Leeches bred by the millions, and the oozy corruption exuded a thin, luminous vapor that was warm and clammy and reeked of decayed matter. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z All symptoms of scurvy left him,—the livid spots under the skin and the oozy spongy gums disappeared. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Not thine the breath of the salt marsh below Where, when the tide is out, the mowers go Shearing the oozy plain, that reeks with brine More tonic than the incense of the pine. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z As I leaned over the hole I saw her disappearing among a confusion of oozy piles; and shuddering with the chill of the mephitic air that came pouring up, I drew back. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z However, it had lowered during the night, leaving a rim of oozy mud to mark the office walls. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z Here and there the floor was wet, and the roof showed an oozy deposit as if some surface spring were forcing itself through the strata of the rock. The School by the Sea Between and around the tents was a wretched slough of sticky, oozy mud nearly a foot deep, with streams of surface water flowing over it in places into the bay. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers Pigs and pariah dogs are nosing about in black oozy mud. The Unveiling of Lhasa Where sodden soil, you scarce have trod, Fills oozy footprints—but the blind Night there, tho' like the frown of God, Presents no phantoms to the mind, Like these that have o'erawed.— One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue There is no beach inside Barange, only the mangrove roots that writhe down to the water's edge like tangled pythons through the oozy bank of salt marsh. Where the Pavement Ends On the opposite side of the oozy valley to that on which they stood, there was some cultivation, and in a circular jungle they descried a few huts, probably a village. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa “What lovely forget-me-nots!” cried her blonde companion, hurrying to her side, the oozy ground bending beneath her weight, as she pressed forward. The Sapphire Cross In hard fact it was safe enough, being indeed a gigantic natural stairway thickly coated with oozy moss, while the sides were festooned with masses of beautiful maidenhair fern. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising And still with his oozy stick of Ummuz clutched between his fingers, he fell asleep. The Three Mulla-mulgars Endeavoring to reach the canoe, and walking backward with his eye still fixed on his pursuers, he sunk to his waist in an oozy creek, and his savage with him. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Here is a rocky chamber, but without a roof; here a bed of moss, but oozy with wet; here an arm-chair, but one of hard stone. Toilers of the Sea Water-lilies and oozy leaves— Lazy bubbles that bulge and stare Up at the moon through the gloom it weaves Out of the willows waving there! The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches If the wild beasts pressed the wanderers too hard, they sometimes had recourse to huts erected upon rough stone heaps in the midst of an oozy swamp. Women of England Too many flags and willows lie over the colony for a glimpse of the tell-tale wriggling trail across the water; but from the wet tangle of grass and moss comes an oozy pattering. The Story of the Trapper "Uptorn reluctant from its oozy cave, The ponderous anchor rises o'er the wave." Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia The eager men—British riflemen, Bengal fusiliers, Panjab infantry—sprang to their feet with a cheer, and followed Nicholson amid a storm of shot over the oozy swamp that divided them from the enemy. Barclay of the Guides A lake of juicy pottage Under a cream of oozy lard Lay 'twixt it and the sea. Ancient Irish Poetry The oozy lilies lie asleep On glist'ring beds of welt'ring leaves; The starlight through the trees doth peep, And fairy garments weaves. Blooms of the Berry From the oozy slime below the mid-floor to the topmost wall will not measure more than two or three feet. The Story of the Trapper They were walking through the rushes, sinking into the warm and oozy bottom of the lagoon formed by the overflow of the tide. Sónnica I could feel something warm, oozy and clammy, making its way from my hair, down the back of my neck. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia The Gulfport Channel is dredged through very soft material, a grayish-blue mud of oozy consistency, into which the sounding pole penetrates six feet with very little exertion. The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce Her decks were piled high with it, and where there wasn't coal there was mud, black oozy mud, and ashes and ropes and soppy hatches. Aliens All about the deserted house are runways, tiny channels across oozy peninsulas and islands of the musk-rat's diminutive world such as a very small beaver might make. The Story of the Trapper With tea before her she could face even marriage and that drearily-flowing river and the hideous mud, so thick and so oozily sinister. Coquette Indeed, just in that particular place the earth looked unusually grimy and moist and oozy, a fact that struck Toby as surprising. Jack Winters' Campmates The roads were hidden under inches of slush, the gutters were miniature brooks, and the ground seemed to be completely covered by a thick coating of red, oozy mud. Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School Fifteen feet at least of oozy, slimy wall would stand up between the boat and the foot of the doorway; twenty feet to the nearest row of windows. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Chicken Little squashed him down gently into some two inches of oozy mud and water. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Once we crossed a patch of oozy turf from which arose a score of jack-snipe; again we skirted a drying pond whose boggy edges were the hunting ground of marsh hens. Wings of the Wind And at the last they brought him well to bay, Within an oozy space amidst the wood, About the which a ring of alders stood. The Earthly Paradise A Poem "Piggie" stuffed one hole with his bonnet, and Bauldie the second with his; Jock spread his jacket over an oozy part. Young Barbarians When it was almost as deep as his boot tops he got stuck in the oozy, mucky mud. My Father's Dragon Pausing for a moment to scrutinize 245 the oozy expanse, she thrust the little animal furiously along to the left, searching for a safe passage. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories On one of the many islands of firmer soil abounding in this oozy region the monks constructed their monastery, but had little space for cultivation, and brought their food from remoter possessions. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel When the lawn's nice and oozy and slippery from super-saturation, "Rus" turns the water on the football and gets it just as wet as though it had fallen in a lake. Interference and Other Football Stories None of the men who flounder through these oozy roads, under the inclement sky, will ever forget the "Muddy March." Three Years in the Federal Cavalry Its banks were marshy with a wide spread of oozy soil, and miry reeds grew in abundance. The Twins of Suffering Creek There were savoury blue-shelled mussels clinging under the tips of the rocks; plump, 239 spiral whelks between the oozy tresses of the seaweed; orange starfish and bristly sea-urchins in the shallow pools. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Passing down the oozy Odiel, we soon saw a watering place on the beach outside just where Columbus put to sea. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose She pulled it up in handfuls, with trailing oozy stalks. The Madcap of the School It led down the north slope, and was oozy and slippery with the melting snow. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse And his way lay across the oozy claim of Scipio. The Twins of Suffering Creek Then, indifferent to the oozy, chilly mud, they crept forward like minks stealing on their prey; and at last, gaining the fir thicket without mishap, they lay prone on the dry needles to rest. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories The oozy slime of fish and smoke mingles with the green mould of the rocks; barnacles cover the walls, and puddles make a soft carpeting for the floors. The Land of Thor At the far end, instead of a hedge, lay the moat, a shallow stagnant pool, bordered with drooping willows, tall reeds, and rushes that reared their spear-like stems from the dark oozy water. The Madcap of the School At a little distance it appeared like a green meadow; having water-grass, and other amphibious vegetables, growing from its oozy bottom, and floating upon its surface. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe One swift glance again at the distant hill, and then he turned from it and sat gazing at the dank, oozy prospect of the low-lying flat he was just entering with no sort of friendliness. The Twins of Suffering Creek But it was win or go to smash now, and personally I have always preferred a tremendous smash to a slow and oozy fizzle. The Maids of Paradise The tanning of hides is extensively carried on along the banks of the Tiber, whose classic "gold" is not unfrequently streaked with oozy streams of a dirty white. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge While we young people were venturing on a short canter, my saddle turned completely, and I landed on my feet in an oozy place, fortunately unhurt. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California It was made through a clammy stone that became oozier and wetter as I went down. Mugby Junction The base of it lay in a definite hollow, reed-grown and oozy. The Twins of Suffering Creek The bottom on which I now lay was of soft, oozy silt; about me were rocks, slippery and covered with a coating of grey-green slime. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation The fen soil is a mass of decayed vegetation, chiefly moss, interlarded with silt, deposited by the sea, which formerly made its oozy way as far as Lincoln. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Presently they came to a spot where the oozy mud extended at least eight or ten feet before the next tuft of grass. Two Little Confederates He saw the coral insects at their work of building, and of entrancing beauty growing in the oozy bed of the ocean. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends For several hundred yards the ground of this flat was rankly spongy, with an oozy surface. The Twins of Suffering Creek As I flowed forward, the sticky fluid substance of my body sucked into the oozy bottom. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation After reaching a wall, the stones of which felt damp and oozy to the touch, Ned ventured to light a match. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam He spent the whole day in a young oak plantation, ankle-deep in oozy mud, moss, and dead fern, making havoc among the innocent birds. Vixen, Volume II. He made such a plunge that poor Hans was thrown over his head, to land full length in an oozy, sticky bog. The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch The latter grow in water four or five feet deep, their leaves and long stems are thick and fleshy, and their roots, which fill the oozy mud, are often several inches in diameter. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel An anchor is said to be shod when, in breaking it from its bed, a quantity of clayey or oozy soil adheres to the fluke and shank. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was sprinkled with little ponds, and banded here and there with belts of stunted trees, small birches and willows, and ragged cedars that hid the oozy muskegs under them. The Long Portage The words sent a shudder through the frame of Somers, as he again thought of Owen Raynes, cold and dead in his oozy grave in the swamp. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer "Hellup! safe me!" roared Hans, trying in vain to extricate himself from the oozy bog, while his horse did the same. The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch Into this forbidding region they penetrated, forcing their way through the tangled reeds and over weary miles of oozy mud, into which they sank almost to the knees at every step. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 An oozy vegetable substance which grows on ships' bottoms. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Here she clawed up from the oozy bottom and devoured almost enough clams to make a meal for a full-grown man. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The man had sure a palate cover’d o’er With brass or steel, that on the rocky shore First broke the oozy oyster’s pearly coat, And risk’d the living morsel down his throat. A Poetical Cook-Book There, near a spring where the cows had trampled the ground until it was oozy and the water stood in tiny pools in their hoof prints, the swallows stopped. Bird Stories Down to the oozy bed sank Blackbeard's treasure. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The air was warm and damp, as if laden with pleurisy and ague; the ground soft and oozy, seemed a sure thing for rheumatism and influenza. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy They little dreamed that a pot-hunting rustic from the village on the hills, flat on his belly in the oozy grass, was noiselessly worming his way toward them. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life O Heavens, that they were living both in Naples, The King and Queen there! that they were, I wish Myself were mudded in that oozy bed Where my son lies. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Again and again he struggled furiously to escape from the oozy quagmire. The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger The anchor reluctantly leaves its oozy bed; but the chinking of the cable, as it steadily ascends, reveals no change, until it swings at the bow. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 The sun was just rising, as a man stepped from his slender dug-out and drew half its length out upon the oozy bank of a pretty bayou. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana But the uselessness of this soon appearing to him, he gave it up, and sought to ease his despair by diving and guttering with his bill among the roots of the oozy bottom. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Here Lord Viscount Stormont, in desperate imitation of Milton, did his best to teach "The mimic Nymph that haunts the winding Verge And oozy current of Parisian Seine" to weep for Frederick. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II We saw no corpses, however, as fatigue parties had been burying the slain, and the whole wood was dotted with heaps of clay, where the dead slept below in the oozy trenches. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War She waded in cautiously, for the bottom was soft and oozy and there were little patches of green floating on the surface that she did not so much like the looks of. The Dude Wrangler Presently he stopped, and stood slowly and softly shifting his footing about on the oozy soil, at a little point of shore only some fifty yards away from his cabin. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Even the tall rushes wore an unsteady look; and the few oysters upon its surface evidently required all their balancing powers to lie upon their flat sides and avoid sinking edgewise into the oozy depths. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 And now that Paris, with his effeminate crew, his chin and oozy hair swathed in the turban of Maeonia, takes and keeps her; since to thy temples we bear oblation, and hallow an empty name.' The Aeneid of Virgil The muskrat now bestirred himself and began a leisurely journey downstream, stopping when an unusually succulent root showed itself above the oozy bed. Followers of the Trail The bottom was rather oozy, and there were green patches floating on the surface, otherwise it was ideal. The Dude Wrangler She stepped over the grass so lightly and quickly that she had gone some steps before her feet began to sink in the black, oozy bog. Three Margarets But suddenly, as I pulled, the creature sprang violently forward against me, a clammy, oozy mass, as it seemed to me, heavy and wet, yet endowed with a sort of supernatural strength. The Upper Berth A strong arm, press'd Round a maiden's waist On the doleful morrow is seen, And her oozy hair Laves his forehead bare With the waft of the wavy stream. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century To lillies trickling oozy scent into gold bowls laid ready to receive it? More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme There were oozy bottoms, rankly speared with rush-grass. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He must struggle alone through his deep waters: waters of the soul, wherein float neither life-preserver nor raft, rope or even light; neither coral reef nor oozy grave, for such as he. The Genius Aside from gowns, the reception was chiefly notable for its cake; not cakes, but solid loaves made up in layers with oozy sweetnesses sandwiched in between. The Brentons “Yes, I heard him say it was a little short of two miles deep, so it has got a long way to sink before it reaches its oozy bed.” The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables Flint stood gloomily gazing down at his boots covered with the oozy brown fluid. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes No more trickling feebly from snowbanks; no more boring devious channels in oozy clay, no more stagnating in sullen dams. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance There were dead cats, and bad eggs, and old bones lying about the oozy gutters, and people shouted disagreeable things at us from their doorways. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon We had managed to lift it out of its oozy bed, when we heard a shout, and looking up we saw the three natives rushing through the forest. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco Just as the boat’s bows touched the oozy bank a loud rustling was heard, and they fully expected that a jaguar was about to spring upon them. The Three Lieutenants Pursuer and pursued both stuck in the oozy bottom of a stream, and when Wells and Miller came up, they were threatening each other with knife and tomahawk. Stories Of Ohio He was stretched face downward on the black, oozy soil with his arm buried in a hole at the foot of a tree. The Four Pools Mystery Lazy bears went ambling through the rocky places; wolves rushed madly over the oozy marshlands; and timid deer ran and leaped among the trees. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Here was scope for a leader; the track was so overgrown as to be almost indistinguishable, and ran across boggy land, where it was only too easy to plunge over one's boot-tops in oozy peat. For the Sake of the School But the blood was just the ordinary oozy kind, and so we let it come, to clean the wound well. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies For instance, my good man, caneton à la bigarade, or duckling garnished with the oozy, saliva-provoking sauce of the peel of bitter oranges. Europe After 8:15 He gained the edge of the landing-front, slipped on an oozy stone, and fell back with a cry of horror right beneath the toppling mass of logs. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories It was a lump of soft, oozy blackness. Invaders from the Infinite The clanking chains brought up bunches of seaweed and river grass which fell with an oozy thud upon the deck. For the Sake of the School She looked up; and he followed her glance—one great undulation swayed above them—surging in oozy motion—curving down; just higher than their faces—a broad flat head—thin lateral lips—stark lidless eyes. Son of Power Slimy reptiles bask in the warm sun and glide lazily over the black, oozy soil. The Statesmen Snowbound In dry, the oozy wretches are weeping among the slippery weeds, infested with eels and powheads. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 An oozy green paste dripped from his hand; one of the pink wings intermittently concealed his injured expression. While Caroline Was Growing She stepped in an oozy place and wet one foot, but she did not mind it. Young Lucretia and Other Stories Once his leg sank to the knee in the oozy undergrowth. Tom Slade's Double Dare The ground beyond was lower than the saw-grass land and seemed to be composed of oozy slime. The Plunderer The plain, clad with a drab grass, stretched to where the low-lying Sacramento slipped between oozy banks. The Emigrant Trail Silently they took their way homeward, choosing a shorter route; and coming upon an oozy place in the woods, Jim said to Louise: "I'm going to carry you in my arms." An Arkansas Planter "And don't forget your helmet and gas-mask," he called, as I stepped from the car into a foot of oozy mire. Italy at War and the Allies in the West He was back at the edge of that oozy, clinging, all devouring trap. Tom Slade's Double Dare He stepped carefully off into the oozy slime and allowed himself to sink. The Plunderer He rose, oozy and dripping, took a long breath, and the welkin shuddered as it rang. The Terrible Twins And, before he had gone to bed that night, he had seen a straggling stream which a little further on ran across the morrow's trail, making shallow ponds in the grass, the banks oozy mud. Wolf Breed Whilst, louder yet, the cannon's roar Resounds along the Nile's affrighted shore, Where, from his oozy bed, The cowering crocodile hath raised his head! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan The oozy mass sucked it in, closed over it. Tom Slade's Double Dare Chant in melody musical Hymns of bridal; on earth a foot Beating, hands to the winds above 15 Torches oozily swinging. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Long had he journeyed among bushes and trees, over logs and across streams and oozy marshes; now he deemed he was nearing the Mississippi. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Having once penetrated this outer curtain, Ralph saw they were close to a rude landing made of logs sunk endways into the oozy bottom, and floored with large canes similar to bamboo. Ralph Granger's Fortunes Just below the shadow of the beech there is a sandy, oozy shore, where the footprints of moorhens are often traceable. Nature Near London Ingred splashed ankle deep in oozy mud as she scrambled on board, but that was a trifle compared with the relief of being ferried over the river. A Popular Schoolgirl Bladud awoke with the first beams of morning, and discovered his grunting charge still actively wallowing in the oozy bed in which they had taken such unaccountable delight on the preceding day. The Children's Portion The pasture land was soft and oozy, but as every boy wore either rubber boots or storm rubbers, they did not mind the mud. Sunny Boy and His Playmates Each drop, like a bullet, drove a little hole in the oozy bottom, which slowly closed up again. Pee-Wee Harris Adrift One sees a plant growing beneath the water, and in the soft, oozy bottom, near the edge, are the deep prints made by the fore feet of a big buffalo bull. The Extermination of the American Bison Probably these hairy, oozy creatures have their joys and pleasures, and their woes, just as every other of God's creatures, but of what their happiness consists who can tell? Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles Several times Francis could feel, by the dragging pace, that she was touching the oozy bottom; but each time she passed over without coming to a standstill. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century Here was pleasanter walking than the thawing clay, but now and then one felt the threat of an infinite oozy softness beneath the stiff frozen leaves. Certain Personal Matters “You can call this fairyland, if you want,” Laura remarked, gazing around her; “I call it a nasty, damp, oozy spot.” The Black Box I was sure to pick out spongy, oozy, slippery grass to stand upon, in marshy land, or was yet more likely to slump through over shoes in black mud. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse The soft, vivid turf was oozy there, and the long-rooted stones were clothed with wet, rusted moss. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax See the purple of his lip 'N' the red 'n' oozy drip! 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse "It's not as bad as it looks!" said Mrs. Carteret, plunging in her hands and heroically smearing her face with a mass of black oozy matter believed to =97= be a sponge. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The watercress grows thick against either oozy bank, leaving a clear of only a foot. The Killer He was weak from loss of blood, and he was bleeding yet, in oozy streams,—face, hands, shoulders, knees, wherever those lance-edged shells had raked his flesh. Poor Man's Rock It was made through a clammy stone that became oozier and wetter as I went down. Stories of Mystery He bowed and smiled and moved off, a stiff figure deliberately picking its way up the oozy steps to the crowded street overhead. The King's Achievement Then, with an effort of the will I suppressed the strong temptation, and squeezing through the tent-opening, I stepped out into the oozy mud. Combed Out There are more creepy, oozy things in that cypress swamp over there than a man can afford to meet in the dark. Diane of the Green Van These we donned, the negro showing me how to fasten mine, and then we stepped on to the morass, the oozy red soil squelching beneath our feet. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow But the stream went completely over the cannon, which also sank deeper and deeper in the oozy bottom. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad On sounding, we struck the ground with 32 fathoms, over an oozy bottom. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island From our last anchorage to this, we found every where an oozy bottom, the water first regularly decreasing to five fathoms, and then increasing to seven, after which we had five and six fathoms alternately. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Snorting March came as if blown in off the icy lake, and oozy April fell from the clouds. The Colossus A Novel He washed every clean white piece of it in his oozy tub before tasting it, coating the bits over with mud as you do the lumps of fondant with chocolate in making "chocolate creams." Roof and Meadow But his coadjutors were inexperienced, and perhaps his own courage was of that saccharine character that gets oozy and slushy in moist perils. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Here we anchored in ten fathoms water, over a bottom of oozy sand, distant from the shore one-third of a mile. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time On Friday the 15th of March, about ten o'clock in the morning, we anchored off the Cape of Good Hope, in seven fathom, with an oozy bottom. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 He mixed it thoroughly and then with his hands formed balls of the oozy mass, from which he squeezed the juice into another tanoa glazed a deep, rich blue by its frequent saturation in kava. White Shadows in the South Seas Rent bodies of men in once gaudy uniforms, now flattened and bruised in warm, oozy death, were piled in a mass where but a moment before the wondering vanguard of troopers had clustered. Truxton King A Story of Graustark There exhales from this oozy mass so fatal a vapour that no animal can endure it. After London Or, Wild England To these on the soft oozy mud succeed acres of sedge and rush and great turfs of greyish grass. The Amateur Poacher In this position, they had seventy fathoms, and an oozy bottom with black and grey sand. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 The feet of the horses made a sucking sound on the oozy ground. White Shadows in the South Seas And herein, fed by oozy loam, and kindly dew from heaven, and bitter sweat from men, grew as in hot-beds the nutritious Taro. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Beside these, there is nothing approximating the natural meadows of New England, the fenny, oozy flats of nearly all inhabited countries. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Above there is a thin crust of snow, but under the leaves the oozy ground is still soft. The Amateur Poacher The breeze then freshened, and enabled them with some difficulty and tacking, to return to Port Gallant, where they anchored in twenty fathom, and an oozy bottom. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 While the tide was low two stakes were driven deep into the oozy sand, one close to the water, the other nearer the shore. Sketches of the Covenanters I waded three inches deeper into the mud puddle and flattened myself against a wall of oozy rock with an utterly unfeminine disregard of consequences. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Thou to eastward carriest The keen savour of the foam,— Thou dost bear unto the west Fragrance from thy woody home, Where perchance a house is thine Odorous of the oozy pine. The Poems of William Watson The once soft, oozy ground is now firm; the rushes are frozen stiff, and the ice for some distance out is darkened by the aquatic weeds frozen in it. The Amateur Poacher The anchoring ground all along the north side of Java, from Madura to Batavia, is a fine oozy bottom, free from rocks. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. This hole is only about three feet by two, and the narrow outlet to the basin is but four inches deep, and loses itself within fifty yards in an oozy bog. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 We instantly let go our anchor, being in a rapid current or tide-way, in seventeen fathoms upon oozy ground. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time They had now reached a desolate region of oozy moss and dead trees; here they camped for the second night. The Lady of Big Shanty It has drifted till each plank Is oozy as the oyster-bank: Drifted, drifted, night by night, Craft that never shows a light; Nor ever, to prevent worse knell, Tolls in fog the warning bell. John Marr and Other Poems San Francisco, now a hectic, riotous metropolis of 25,000 inhabitants, was like a muddy Venice, for heavy rains had made its unpaved streets canals of oozy mud. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts There the soft, oozy earth, which can never dry under the trees, is poached into a slough through which even timber carriages cannot be drawn. Hodge and His Masters At six this evening, we again anchored our boat in sixty-eight f. on oozy sand, and found a slight current to the southwards. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose From the bare rock, or oozy beach, Who from each barren weed that grows, Expects the grape, or blushing peach. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 The damp air, freshened by contact with trickling drops and oozy bogs, and perfumed with spicy cedar, soothes and cools. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 Clouds of yellow mud boiled up from the bottom of the oozy harbor as the Hatteras dropped her hook; and the sharks moved about, all the more shuddery in their tameness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel The poor scholars in the mouldering garrets of Clare, looking over waste land to the oozy Cam, no doubt wished that their foundress had been less Spartan. Gossip in a Library Thou pale visitant of the spirit land, why dost thou hover ever round the shades of time, and ever ply thy bark on yonder sluggish stream, whose oozy waters bear thee on its bosom? Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland The ground was now soft and miry and was covered with tussocks of coarse grass, between which the soil was black and oozy. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War The ocean shook to its oozy bed, As the swelling sound to the canopy went, And the splintered fires like meteors shed Their light o'er the tossing element. Poems Water-fowls, such as ducks, have at their feet large skins that stretch, somewhat like rackets, to keep them from sinking on the oozy and miry banks of rivers. The Existence of God It fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields. Martin Chuzzlewit There the voice of troubled torrents, hidden in unfathomed deeps, Known to moss and faint green sunlight, wanders down the oozy steeps. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Staggering to his feet, the ape-man groped about the reeking, oozy den. Beasts of Tarzan And so, when smooth The bodies of the oozy flavour, then Delightfully they touch, delightfully They treat all spots, around the wet and trickling Enclosures of the tongue. On the Nature of Things With the oozy mud dripping from his features he looked like some very witch just raised from the grave. Myths and Legends of the Sioux It swooped like a dropping stone, and I swerved and drove in the lance at its oozy eye. The Lost Continent At length on oozy ground his galleys moor; Their heads are turn'd to sea, their sterns to shore. The Aeneid English Presently the ground gave rich and oozy under my feet; but I was desperate and went headlong into it, struggled through kneedeep, and so came to a winding path among tall canes. The Island of Doctor Moreau There was that oozy green hole, with the thick scum broke, and two or three big bubbles slowly rising that were the breath of his body. A Girl of the Limberlost They soon reached a spot where the oozy saturated soil quaked beneath their tread. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 A rider, advancing slowly, had noticed this and with a jerk of his rein, directed his horse to the oozy grass along the side. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Then he took the buoy in both hands, held it straight out, thrust it edge down into the oozy substance, used it as a kind of anchor and drew it to him. The Cruise of the Dry Dock I caught a pike out of a footman's hand, and probed into the black oozy mud, standing myself up to the waist in it, and holding Covenant's bridle in my left hand. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Now the numerous inhabitants of the waters come forth from their oozy beds and play and flounce in the beams of the moon. Imogen A Pastoral Romance He came to the shore of the old salt sea— Yellow sands with frost-like tinge; The bones of the dead on the edge of its bed, Lay lapped in its oozy fringe. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 This looped at a right angle, shone with a sudden glaze of sun, slipped into shadow and, rounding a point, an island with a bare, oozy edge came into view. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California So the three worked themselves over the oozy bed of fire. The Cruise of the Dry Dock I made my way as best I could through the oozy clinging mud to the margin, and hastened back to where Reuben was lying. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 And lucid vigour marked the general style: As Nile's proud waves, swoln from their oozy bed. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 She scooped up some water from a hallow puddle with a battered tin can, and began the formation of an oozy little pocket in the middle of the mortar-bed. With the Procession Take the following lines, for instance:— Up-torn reluctant from its oozy cave, The ponderous anchor rises o'er the wave. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes The horses began to sink into the oozy soil: only a very practised eye could tell where the surface was firmest, and even this knowledge was but slight advantage. The Story of Kennett No, but one of the nymphs of the Thames, or rather, for they are somewhat oozy hereabouts, a dryad of the Richmond woods, indeed as beautiful a person as ever I saw in my life. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty At present a north wind is blowing, which makes the walls oozy with damp and the atmosphere very steamy. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha We might have heard, with thee, the voice of the deep; have seen the oozy rock. Fragments of Ancient Poetry The oozy soil afforded no support for buildings, except when strengthened by piles; there was scarcely any land fit for farming or cattle-raising; and the only drinking water had to be stored from the rainfall. Early European History This plain is about four hundred miles wide and sixteen hundred long, and there are no currents to disturb the mass of broken shells and unknown fishes that lie on its oozy surface. Steam, Steel and Electricity Before my feet there rose a stair Of oozy stone, of giant size, On which the gray moon flung its glare. Poems The houses are built of sun-baked mud bricks, kneaded by mares that splash and trample through the oozy substance for hours to mix it well. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America This one, they say, shifts continually and sometimes reaches so low a level that rich crops are planted in its oozy bed. Alone The ground in general was an oozy, mossy bog on a foundation of jagged rocks, full of concealed pit-holes. Travels in Alaska Every reach of coastline now traversed was like a cable, long buried in the deep of time, at length hauled into daylight, with its oozy deposits of seaweed, shell and mud lying thick upon it. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Over the hills, and 'mongst the brier, And through the oozy swamp, Her weary steps must never tire Ere burns the firefly's lamp. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. But now there was only a little oozy gloss from the gleam of the sun upon some lees of marshy brine left among the rushes by the last high tide. Erema — My Father's Sin And all sin is linked together in a slimy tangle, like a field of seaweed, so that the man once caught in its oozy fingers is almost sure to be drowned. Expositions of Holy Scripture The sleepy kine move round me in desire And press their oozy lips upon my hair, Toads kiss my feet and creatures of the mire, The snails will leave their shells to watch me there. English Poems The quivering darkness under the banyan blotted everything: death had dispersed the black minnows there, in oozy wriggles of shadow; but next moment the fish-tail stripes chased in a more lively shoal. Dragon's blood The ground became soft and oozy, and now and again gave way beneath me in a sickening kind of way. Dracula's Guest The air was particularly bright and clear, even for that pure climate, and I could even see the blue-winged flies darting in and out of the oozy floats. Erema — My Father's Sin Around Sainte Marie the forests were gray and bare, and, in the cornfields, the oozy, half-thawed soil, studded with the sodden stalks of the last autumn's harvest, showed itself in patches through the melting snow. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Beware the oozy spots along the border of the marsh. The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup In momentary danger of being cut off downstream, or overtaken from above, he kept the boat waiting along the oozy shore. Dragon's blood In fact the smell that simply swirled up from its oozy bottom left no doubt that the boat had been used for that purpose. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island In some places, the bottom is oozy and sandy, where vessels may get aground. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 The walls were oozy, and little rivulets trickled through, and went rippling over the floor of the passage. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp It was soon discovered by the retainers, and dragged from its oozy bed, grinning worse than ever. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers They walked up the oozy path with hearts about as chill and empty as the unfurnished cottage before them. What Can She Do? Come forth from thy oozy couch, O Ornithorhynchus dear! Following the Equator — Part 1 A huge saurian dragged his mail-clad body out of the water, and settled quietly in his oozy bed. Four Months in a Sneak-Box You now have roads and walks that will be dry and hard even in oozy March, and you can stroll about your place the moment the heaviest shower is over. The Home Acre About half way across we came to a sluice of stagnant water which, directly in the road of the caravan, had settled down into an oozy pond. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Inasmuch as no crops whatever had been moved over the road during the past season, it was now little more than an oozy, sticky rut. Rainbow's End Yet by quoting passages, like this, from his second-rate plays alone, we might make a volume 'rich with his praise', As is the oozy bottom of the sea With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays I think the hotel is too near the river,—there is an oozy smell from the Nile that I hate, and the heat is perfectly sulphureous. Ziska Then one day a heavy rain came that made the street one slough of soft oozy clay which no one could cross. Vignettes of San Francisco Instead of this, however, they had simply acted as "catch-pits," which had accumulated soft oozy mud to the depth of several feet, and a few dead oyster shells were the only result. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken The interim is mud—oozy, brown, malevolent mud. Simon the Jester I paddle under cypress trees; All fearfully I peer Through oozy channels when the breeze Comes rustling at my ear. Rolling Stones The dull dank morn stare in, Like a dim drowned face with oozy eyes. The Judgment House Therefore they lay waiting till the fourth of December; when the frost came, bridged the lakes and streams, and made the oozy marsh as firm as granite. Pioneers of France in the New World The water was knee-deep and the bottom soft and oozy. The Dragon and the Raven Splosh! went another man ahead, recovering from a side-slip in the oozy mud and clinging desperately to some bunches of yarrow growing up the side of the trench. Now It Can Be Told And to this day no Blackfoot will dare to pass through this black-walled, oozy, glistening canyon after the moon has passed the western lip. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Then he commenced to paw and impel and project and cram the mixture into his mouth, and between each mouthful he sighed a contented sigh, and during every mouthful he gurgled an oozy gurgle. Irish Fairy Tales The snow thawed at last, and as patches of the black and oozy soil began to appear, they saw the grain of their last autumn's sowing already piercing the mould. Pioneers of France in the New World We anchored in thirty-eight fathom water, good oozy ground. Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier He stooped, and waving his torch along the ground he moved to the far angle of the chateau, examining the soft, oozy clay. Saint Martin's Summer From many an oozy nook the dainty clematis and columbine shook out their bells, and, lower down, from beds of many-colored moss the late wind-flower and maiden-hair and tiny violet lifted up brave, sweet faces. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Let the oozy marge be forgotten, and the sandy bed where the shades dance all in green and gloom, and the brown flood sings along.' Irish Fairy Tales Low in the valley lies the conquered rout Of man's poor trivial turmoil, lost and drowned Under the mist, in gleaming rivers rolled, Where oozy marsh contends with frothing main. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 At seven o’clock in the evening we anchored in thirty-five fathom, about two leagues from an island, good soft oozy ground. Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier Low in the valley lies the conquered rout Of man's poor, trivial turmoil, lost and drowned Under the mist, in gleaming rivers rolled, Where oozy marsh contends with frothing main. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets At last the sound of horses' feet were heard on the wet, oozy ground without. He Fell in Love with His Wife But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man's head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground. Irish Fairy Tales There was a crash and a clatter as the white gunboat's nose took the shoal, and the brown mud boiled up in oozy circles under her forefoot. Soldiers Three - Part 2 That oozy Morell Brook issues on Browne's side of Lobositz, cutting Browne in two; but is otherwise all in Browne's favor. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 Not far from this spot lay an old, leaky punt, drawn up on the oozy river-side, and generally half full of water. The Blithedale Romance His pipe had begun to bubble oozily every time he pulled at it. Crome Yellow I never dream such things, And when I jump and wake As an oozy ogre clutches me— It's just a stomach ache! Songs for Parents By day he was a clerk in a cotton broker's office in one of those cold, rancid mountains of oozy brick, down near the levee in New Orleans. Roads of Destiny That they were, I wish Myself were mudded in that oozy bed Where my son lies. The Tempest He rose to his feet, sinking almost to the top of his boots in the oozy slime. Mistress Wilding The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and oily swell. Crome Yellow Thick and scented daisies spread Where with surface dull like lead Arabian pools of slime invite Manticors down from neighbouring height To dip heads, to cool fiery blood In oozy depths of sucking mud. Country Sentiment It was often impossible to judge whether fairly solid soil or oozy murk lay before them. The Scouts of the Valley Tall grass flourished by the roadside in place of the tender shoots just peeping from the warm and oozy soil. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life The horses were turned to feed among the scattered bushes of a low oozy meadow. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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