What you see are the scum of nations drawn here by the scent of gold, as vultures are to a battlefield.
A third of these were Kaffir women, and the majority of the rest, the vilest and most foul-mouthed scum in Johannesburg.
In about twenty-four hours it is run off into large flat vessels, and stirred about until a blue scum appears, when additional water is added, and the blue flakes sink to the bottom.
It rises in the mash tubs and is found in the scum at the surface, being separated either by the fermentation or the action of heat.
The froth or scum diffuses itself spontaneously into separate minute particles, that move about the surface of the liquor, which are marks of an excessive fermentation.
The fermentation is at this time violent, the fluid is in constant commotion, apparently boiling, innumerable bubbles mount to the surface, and a copper colored dense scum covers the whole.
The ocean had but an hour ago cast him like its scum on the beach.
Frail outcast--the very scum of a blacks' camp, its repulsiveness was tragic.
The breakers roll in unbroken or with a muddy, froth, for the scum acts as oil, calming even troubled water.
Underneath the scum floating on the surface of politics, Madeleine felt that there was a sort of healthy ocean current of honest purpose, which swept the scum before it, and kept the mass pure.
Well, you scum of your respective nations, let there be no misunderstanding; I am going on just the same.
Here, the soil was mapped out in squares of unequal size and shape, all encased with enormous ridges or embankments of gray earth and filled with water, to the surface of which the salt scum rises.
Put it into plenty of cold water, and carefully catch the scum as soon as it rises: let it boil till all the scum is removed, and then put the boiler on one side of the fire, to keep simmering slowly till it is done.
Put the head into a saucepan, with plenty of cold water: when it is coming to a boil, and the scum rises, carefully remove it.
If any scum rises, take it off; season with a little salt.
Such is the foul scum which, both in front and in the rear, rolls along with the popular tide; whatever is done to stem the torrent, it widens out and will leave its mark at every stage of its overflow.
Meanwhile, the scum has been bubbling up around the chateau; and the abandoned women subsidized in Paris are pursuing their calling.
But all these are only the scum upon the outside of a great upward movement in mankind, and are not to be taken as the incontestable proof of the vicious condition of the whole mass.
All scum in a boiling pot rises to the top, and makes itself seen, concealing the pure liquid beneath, until it is skimmed off.
The scum of the bottomless pit," was how he put it.
It being Saturday, the scum of the North Woods was gathering at the Star Pond resort.
All the scum of the wilderness gathers here," went on Lannis.
There is a street, deeply sunk in mire; for there is no sewerage, and a sickening green scum has gathered in front of every house.
What can you expect of our country with this scum of the earth coming in by the million?
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
She hath wearied Me with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her; her scum shall be in the fire.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it, bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
The scum descended unbroken on the surface of the liquor; and when the copper was nearly empty the tap was closed, and the scum and what little liquor remained was taken out.
It required many hours' boiling to effect this, any scum which rose to the surface being carefully taken off with a skimmer.
It was full of a greasy, watery soup with a thick, yellow scum on the top, through which chunks of pork and potato bobbed up here and there.
I tried other songs with my artist's ears and found them all much like the first, the music like the very stars, the words like the grease and scum on the water.
The crowd consisted of the scum and off-scouring of the whole city: there was a company from Southwark.
They were all her friends--every one of these officers, hardened by years of daily contact with the scum of the people.
Rolph came nearer and nearer, his way leading him so close to where his cousin crouched that it seemed impossible that he could go by without seeing her, held there by a man whom he would look upon as the scum of the earth.
Marjorie looked at him sharply, and then pointed down at something covered partially by the dried scum of the pool.
What I said I now state to the House, that the men of the South were Englishmen, but that the army of the North was composed of the scum of Europe.
We found the spring without difficulty; it contained about forty gallons of muddy water, over which a thick greenscum had gathered, and it was simply moving with animal life.
I didn't mean the few Kentuckians who are espousing the Union cause, but the riff-raff andscum of the North.
Should the spices come away with the scum in large quantities, pick them out and return to the kettle.
Boil the water and sugar together until the scumceases to rise; put in the fruit, cover the kettle, and simmer until the apples are a clear red, and tender.
Chop the oysters and boil in their own liquor with a teacupful of vinegar, skimming the scum as it rises.
Monarchs in minds, and gods in high conceits, That scorn you English as the scum of men, Whom I ne dare without their licence name, 'Fore whom thy duties all are few and base.
