1 Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually born again from the social ooze.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 2 One fancied that one had touched the sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's finger nails.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 3 The dislocated bottom had sunk into the ooze.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 4 The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he had now reached.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 5 He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and five or six large sous.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 6 Little Wade had to be held up time and again, so that ladies who ventured as far through the ooze as their carriage blocks could exclaim over him.
7 Scarlett felt her courage and self-confidence ooze from her as she realized that the sword which had flashed between her and the world was sheathed forever.
8 That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
9 In men of his class, vigor and resolution are entirely a physical matter, and ooze out with the flowing of the blood; and the gigantic fellow really looked piteous in his helplessness.
10 I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII. 11 His hat had rolled a few yards away and his clothes were smeared with the filth and ooze of the floor on which he had lain, face downwards.
12 As he crossed the dam Prince Andrew smelled the ooze and freshness of the pond.
13 At length prophetess and prince are landed unscathed on the ugly ooze and livid sedge.
14 Turning, she saw that Melly was standing with her hands clasped to her breast, her eyes closed, and tiny tears oozing from the corners.
15 Suellen and Careen had cried themselves to sleep, as they did at least twice a day when they thought of Ellen, tears of grief and weakness oozing down their sunken cheeks.