He stepped carefully off into the oozy slime and allowed himself to sink.
The ground beyond was lower than the saw-grass land and seemed to be composed of oozy slime.
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.
We were lying on wet, oozy clay, thinly covered with wisps of soaked grass and decaying straw--there had been a cornfield here a year ago.
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.
In this position, they had seventy fathoms, and an oozy bottom with black and grey sand.
Boucalt Bay on the continent side, in eighteen fathom, having an oozy bottom.
It was not till eleven o'clock next morning that they succeeded in this, when they got to a bay named by him Duclos Bay, after the second in command, where they cast anchor in eight and a half fathom, and an oozy bottom.
Cape we found a bay, in which we anchored about two miles from the shore, in four fathom water with an oozy bottom.
The breeze then freshened, and enabled them with some difficulty and tacking, to return to Port Gallant, where they anchored in twenty fathom, and anoozy bottom.
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.
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.
She pulled it up in handfuls, with trailing oozy stalks.
That oozy Morell Brook issues on Browne's side of Lobositz, cutting Browne in two; but is otherwise all in Browne's favor.
In thick woodlands, where a stream that lazily creeps through the mossy, oozy ground attracts myriads of insects to its humid neighborhood, this tiny hunter loves to hide in the denser foliage of the upper branches.
In oozy pastures where a brook lazily finds its way through the farm is the ideal pleasure ground of this "bird of society.
Not far from this spot lay an old, leaky punt, drawn up on the oozy river-side, and generally half full of water.
Then there was a fine old cheese, in which you could almost discern the mites; and some sardines, on a small plate, very richly done, and looking as if oozy with the oil in which they had been smothered.
The miracle was perhaps the more easily wrought, inasmuch as Jugurtha had found the floor of the dungeon oozy with wet.
As we have seen, the explorer will, at first, experience failure in his endeavour to find, with any satisfactory clearness, either old Father Thames or his oozy bed.
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.
I sunk up to my neck in deep holes in the Stygian ooze caused by elephants, and had to tramp through the oozy beds of the Rungwa sources with any clothes wet and black with mud and slime.
At length onoozy ground his galleys moor; Their heads are turn'd to sea, their sterns to shore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The feet of the horses made a sucking sound on the oozy ground.
And then, all at once and without warning, Catia had swept in and dominated him completely, dominated him with her oozy layer cake, and her two sorts of lemonade, and with her Princeton grenadier of a hat.
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.
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.
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.
Running her ashore on the soft oozy ground, we rested under a great hawthorn bush that grew at the very edge, and, looking upwards, could see in the canopy above the black interlaced twigs of a dove's nest.
Above there is a thin crust of snow, but under the leaves the oozy ground is still soft.
To these on the soft oozy mud succeed acres of sedge and rush and great turfs of greyish grass.
