mud-oozing

Updated: May 14, 2025

Towards the sky-line, across the level country, stumbling and crawling over the deep-hewn dikes, wading sometimes through the mud-oozing swamp, Tavernake, who had left the small railway terminus on foot, made his way that night steadily seawards, as one pursued by some relentless and indefatigable enemy.

E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim - The Tempting of Tavernake