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.

Chapter 2 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.

Sole Music 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.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 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.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 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.

Non-Hollywood Compos Mentis The Daily Growler 2006

He indicated the roaring brown water, scummed with white.

The Falcons of Montabard 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.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Eyes that had become pools of scummed-over sewer seepage focused on the handful.

Carnivores of Light and Darkness 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.

Sharpe's Fortress 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.

Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999