And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel keep. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
GRIFFIN: Disgusting and oozy and disgusting and bruised. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008] Reference
To the oozy shore he paddled, clinging to my Funny's nose. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
And stuff was bubbling up from the core and it was warm and oozy. From Wordnik.com. [bomb] Reference
To lillies trickling oozy scent into gold bowls laid ready to receive it?. From Wordnik.com. [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference
The sacs rested on the bottom of the glasses, opaque, oozy, and loathsome. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
Look closely -- because this is where Joey's big, oozy, generous heart breaks. From Wordnik.com. [Jane McGivney: Top Chef: The Loneliest Clone] Reference
Slimy reptiles bask in the warm sun and glide lazily over the black, oozy soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
Flint stood gloomily gazing down at his boots covered with the oozy brown fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Its adherents are too often filled with an oozy glow devoid of any corresponding action. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Greenberg: Gratitude: The Smuggest Sentiment or the World's Second Most Selfish Act?] Reference
Its as though someone took George Galloway and disguised him with an oozy exterior of charm. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McNichol: Great Moments in Literature Presented by Twitter (Limit 140 Characters Including Spaces)] Reference
It was soon discovered by the retainers, and dragged from its oozy bed, grinning worse than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
He mixed the plaster of Paris and the kids watched fascinated as she stood in the cool oozy white. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Crandell: A is for Amy & Adonis: Double Post -- Chapters U and V] Reference
I guess that happens to everyone, especially in moments of condescention and oozy child psychology. From Wordnik.com. [golddustgrrl Diary Entry] Reference
He left an oozy channel drying (like a glanderous sponge) in August; and virulent fever came into his tent. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
But it wasn't like a normal twitch spasm, it was more oozy and radiating and I could barely stand up or walk. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
There are more creepy, oozy things in that cypress swamp over there than a man can afford to meet in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
It was a plate of thinly fried potatoes, covered in a ratatouille-like sauce and topped with an oozy fried egg. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Romesco, the Sauce of Summer] Reference
He saw the coral insects at their work of building, and of entrancing beauty growing in the oozy bed of the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
It fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
He did it again, leaving Izzie to wonder how long it would take before the shell broke and the oozy cream filled her. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
The miracle was perhaps the more easily wrought, inasmuch as Jugurtha had found the floor of the dungeon oozy with wet. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
While the tide was low two stakes were driven deep into the oozy sand, one close to the water, the other nearer the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
Dip a pail into the sand and you may very likely pull up a black, oozy oleo of sand and oil (watch a video of such an exercise). From Wordnik.com. [Bill Chameides: Exxon Valdez 20 Years Later] Reference
Beside these, there is nothing approximating the natural meadows of New England, the fenny, oozy flats of nearly all inhabited countries. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
In New York State, the GOP's establishment candidate, the oozy Rick Lazio, was whipped by an upstate real estate tycoon named Carl Paladino. From Wordnik.com. [The GOP's primary-night putsch] Reference
Suddenly the bundle left his shoulder; something rolled along the ground under my horse's hoofs -- and I was standing on my head in a soft, oozy place. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
The muskrat now bestirred himself and began a leisurely journey downstream, stopping when an unusually succulent root showed itself above the oozy bed. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The shore has a narrow, pebbly strand, which it was worth a day's journey to look at, for the sake of the contrast between it and the weedy, oozy margin of the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
"Hold fast! we'll soon have you out of that muck!" called Phil, after he and Tony McGee arrived at the edge of the quagmire, where poor Larry was up to his waist in the oozy mud. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
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