Scummed

Clutching the woodwork of the galley for support, — and I confess the grease with which it was scummed put my teeth on edge, — I reached across a hot cooking-range to the offending utensil, unhooked it, and wedged it securely into the coal-box. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zig-zagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We found him, when we went to search for him, face downward in a little green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Presently, however, I came upon a very strange and unsettling dream; for I dreamed that I had been left alone on the island, and was sitting very desolate upon the edge of the brown-scummed pit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was not easy to take a bath either; maybe once a week, and then you might have to bath in excessively dirty and heavy scummed water. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

He indicated the roaring brown water, scummed with white. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

The sound might be a trickle, but it came from a green-scummed liquid that glistened some seven or eight feet below. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)

Eyes that had become pools of scummed-over sewer seepage focused on the handful. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

Bappoo went back to the beleaguered Outer Fort while the Killadar slunk back to the hilltop palace above its green-scummed lake. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The parched prisoners threw themselves at the green-scummed water and some, seeing that the sepoy guards were few in number, slipped away northwards. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

He stood and walked to the pavilion's edge where he spat onto the green-scummed bank before turning back to Beny Singh. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The flame stabbed bright as a lance from the walls, its glare momentarily lighting all the rocky isthmus and the green-scummed surface of the tank, before it was blotted out by the rolling smoke. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The green-scummed bones of some large animal were tangled in the rocks. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1999)

Sergeant Green shouted and about half the Light Company jumped into the green-scummed water. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1997)

The machinery within the corrugated refinery shack was burnt and twisted and scummed with pink fire foam. ❋ Niven, Larry (1995)

The books to be packed for donation to the Society for the Preservation of Antiquities lay spilling out of their carton, the Reverend's ancient flatbed lorry sat in the drive with its bonnet up, halfway through a motor check, and a cup of tea sat half-drunk and milk-scummed at his elbow as he gazed blankly out at the falling rain of early evening. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The Mages 'Yard was a narrow court of eight or nine shabby houses, brooding in the raw brown mists over scummed and uneven cobblestones. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)

Kelida turned up the last chair and dropped the floor mop into a wooden bucket of dirt-scummed water. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)

The dark stone walls wept with moisture, the floor beneath his feet was slick with green-scummed puddles. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1987)