The dog howled and leaped up, knocking its nearest comrade into the nest of thorns opposite the scummy pond.

Brains aside, Clare is a cold fish, chilly company for the warmblooded life-forms thrashing around in this scummy pond.

Beyond the thorny barrier, the scummy pond seemed to possess a geometric essence, both liquid and uncannily corrugated.

At the bottom of the low hill he was curling his way down, there was a copse of scrubby trees and beyond that a small, scummy pond.

With each, in turn, Calhoun mingled the decoction of rotting vegetation which was, apparently, as well-suited for his research as stagnant water from a scummy pond.

Without it, we wouldn't exist; there would be nothing more complex than blue-green algae in some scummy pond.

In view of this behavior, Fortier and Nikopolous decided not to arrest Guitirrez immediately; he might inadvertently lead them to bigger fish in his scummy pond.

Suddenly a cup was in her hand, full of viscous sickly green liquid; it looked as if it had been scooped from a scummy stagnant pond.

Several were big and poked just above the surface of the scummy pond that occupied a lot of space in the yard.

Anything they ate, short of skimming more algae from scummy ponds, would have to come from the Enterprise.