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Its banks were marshy with a wide spread of oozy soil, and miry reeds grew in abundance. The trail cut well away from the bed of the creek, mounting the higher land where the soil, in curious contrast, was sandy, and the surface deep in a silvery dust. To an observer the curiosity of the contrast must have been striking, but Wild Bill was not in an observant mood.
That oozy Morell Brook issues on Browne's side of Lobositz, cutting Browne in two; but is otherwise all in Browne's favor. Browne extends through Lobositz; and beyond it, curves up to Welhoten on the River-brink; at Lobositz are visible considerable redoubts, cannon-batteries and much regular infantry.
In "Plug Street" and other lines of trenches they stood in water with walls of oozy mud about them, until their legs rotted and became black with a false frostbite, until many of them were carried away with bronchitis and pneumonia, and until all of them, however many comforters they tied about their necks, or however many body-belts they used, were shivering, sodden scarecrows, plastered with slime.
"It was a pleasant end," she said, for he was a godly, patient man; and we were both sorely grieved, though it was a thing for which we had been long prepared; and indeed, to his family and connexions, except for the loss of the stipend, it was a very gentle dispensation, for he had been long a heavy handful, having been for years but, as it were, a breathing lump of mortality, groosy, and oozy, and doozy, his faculties being shut up and locked in by a dumb palsy.
It floated at the end of a tether but the bow of the canoe pressed the stern under and tipped it until the water rushed in. Listed far over, the sea-chest slid a trifle and this was enough to push the gunwale clear under. The boat filled and capsized, what with the weight of the chest and the pressure of the canoe's fore part. Down to the oozy bed sank Blackbeard's treasure.
I think they fell dead, so I oughtn't to have much trouble," replied Frank. "Beware the oozy spots along the border of the marsh. I've had no end of trouble getting stuck instead of duck," called out Bones, as the other moved away, carrying his gun along with him as a wise hunter always does.
The walls were oozy, and little rivulets trickled through, and went rippling over the floor of the passage. 'A short distance from the dwelling, Nancy explained, 'a dam has been put before this stream, and it runs through a channel which they cut for it into Silent Lake. The two explorers now reached a point well lighted, and turning up his eyes Roland observed a number of holes in the roofing.
'Oh yes; a year and three days. We're quite used to it. 'Us'n be in h-ll in a minute, wench! exclaimed Dan, calmly changing the topic, as Harold swung the car within an inch of a brewer's dray, and skidded slightly in the process. No anti-skidding device would operate in that generous, oozy mud.
Captain Kneebone, his cheeks white and suddenly old beneath the untidy stubble of his beard, had taken charge. In momentary danger of being cut off downstream, or overtaken from above, he kept the boat waiting along the oozy shore.
He saw the coral insects at their work of building, and of entrancing beauty growing in the oozy bed of the ocean. "I wonder," said Alexander, "if I dare venture forth and take some of these beautiful gems back with me. The ring will protect me." Alexander was one of the bravest men that ever lived, and he immediately set about trying to open the bell.
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