Pond covering

Usage examples of scum.

Even a pinchful of salt hitting a Fetcher started a chain reaction that in a matter of seconds reduced the creature to a bubbling pile of nasty-looking scum.

He took off great sheets of this scum and tested it and weighed it and fussed with it, and at last he told an audience of vinegar-makers and their wives and families that the microbes which change wine to vinegar actually eat up and turn into vinegar ten thousand times their own weight of alcohol in a few days.

And in this way, spite of all remonstrance, was I dragged through the lane and enlisted with the rest of my companions into a corps of university men who were just forming themselves in the High-street to repel the daring attack of the very scum of the city, who had ill-treated and beaten some gownsmen in the neighbourhood of St.

Kord was still the jong, and Mephis shrunk in his presence to the insignificant scum he had been born.

Neither Orsine nor anyone like him is going to move into the city until the Day Oners and all the scum have worn themselves down to nothing.

Rains had left a stagnant scum in the orichalc basins, but the bronze statues from which water had once played were twists of verdigris which gave no hint of their former shapes.

There was a site not that far from her home in Claremore where that had happened, where a band of mixed Heavy Eyebrows scum, renegade Cherokee, and rejects from other tribes had overrun an Osage village, killing, torturing, and raping the women, old men, and children left behind.

I kept staring back astern into the darkness but never ceasing to puple that filthy scum, striking at it and switching it from side to side until I sweated.

I was in the bows of the boat, pupling the scum from side to side, and trying to break up the viscid, clinging muck.

A couple of drunken scum from the gutters of Darzan Og Rith could have done better than you two.

Hutt like sleaks on swamp scum, nosing around, building a case, and Filba was on the verge of being arrested, and he had taken the poison to avoid be ing court-martialed and executed .

The unmagic vanished, leaving only a faint scum on the floorboards where it had been.

He could point to the chief creative minds of the country for generations, as beginning their survey genially, ending venomously, because of an exasperating unreason and scum in the bubble of the scenes, called social, around them.

The cavern floor was scummed with mud and beslimed with the calcareous drippings of the mineral growths above.

Honey that is nine times sweeter than the honey of the virgin swarm, without scum and bees, do I require to make bragget for the feast.