"Oozing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bitten her tongue. She opened her mouth wide with the pain, and I saw the beast lying across her tongue, and out of its body, which was almost bitten in two, came a hideous white-looking substance, oozing out into Norma's mouth; it was of the consistency of a crushed black-beetle just then I awoke and the prince entered ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... ground, he hastily unfastened and turned down his legging. There, sure enough, was a tiny red spot, with a single drop of blood oozing from it. ...
— Two Boys in Wyoming - A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) • Edward S. Ellis
... full of the wounded. Man after man was taken off, brought on his litter and laid beside other men, and something given him to keep the little life in his body that seemed fast oozing out. All night it went on. It grew cold—for naked men bitter cold—before morning. We had no blankets, nothing to cover them, only the strips ...
— A Story of the Red Cross - Glimpses of Field Work • Clara Barton
... who have had children the womb does not as a rule contract down as firmly as after the first confinement. This condition permits of slight relaxation of the muscular wall, at which times there is a slight oozing of blood. This blood collects and forms clots in the uterine cavity which acts as irritants, exciting contractions in the effort to expel them. These contractions cause what are commonly known as "after-pains." These pains last until the womb is free from blood-clots. ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague, M.D.
... boats have to be tested at a depth of two hundred feet before they are accepted by the government from the builders," replied Bill. "But you can bet your life we don't often go down that far. When we do, the water is oozing through the thin steel hull and dropping in globules from the sides and top of the vessel. From sixty to a hundred feet ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll
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