"Scummy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... astir with life in that scummy little corner. There was frog spawn adrift, tremulous with tadpoles just bursting their gelatinous envelopes; there were little pond snails creeping out into life, and under the green skin of the rush stems the larvae of a big Water Beetle ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... said that the Mafulu name for these things is idagafe. The natives have no knowledge of their origin or past use, the only explanation of the latter which was suggested being that they were used as looking-glasses by looking into the scummy surface of the water inside ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson |
