Meanings of oozy bed in English

So the three worked themselves over the oozy bed of fire.

It was soon discovered by the retainers, and dragged from its oozy bed, grinning worse than ever.

A huge saurian dragged his mail-clad body out of the water, and settled quietly in his oozy bed.

For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies.

This one, they say, shifts continually and sometimes reaches so low a level that rich crops are planted in its oozy bed.

The muskrat now bestirred himself and began a leisurely journey downstream, stopping when an unusually succulent root showed itself above the oozy bed.

Now the numerous inhabitants of the waters come forth from their oozy beds and play and flounce in the beams of the moon.