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A thick mist scummed the windshields as the 39-car motorcade rolled eastward under the grey sky toward Andau, a scant kilometer from the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lake opened out before them, scummed with foam and torn into choppy, white-topped waves among which the logs were tossing.

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

The milk, which, after being scummed as before, had been put into a copper kettle, receives its due quantity of rennet, and is gently warmed, if the season requires it.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Then boil it gently, skimming it all the while, till all the scum be perfectly scummed off; and after that boil it a little longer, peradventure a quarter of an hour.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

He had spent the night in a foetid cell with a number of other delinquents who had been scummed off the streets.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)