They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water.

The lantern's light gleamed on something else under the scummy water.

I was looking at the scummy water, thinking, I will not go into that.

The oily, scummy water lay still in front of them, an occasional ripple breaking languidly on the pebbles.

Near by a boot with a human foot inside emerged from the black scummy water at the bottom of a shell-hole.

Clare screams and runs barefoot across the shingle and the debris of glass and tin and into the scummy water, looking for Rose.

His hand went into the front of his jacket, and John remembered the dead girl in the alley, blood splashing in the scummy water.

Scummy water swirled round the stone supports of raised wooden buildings, seeping up through the floorboards.