Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.

A faint colour seeped into the usually colourless lips at which his dead-white teeth were suddenly gnawing.

On the north slope there was a tiny spring, fenced with wire to keep the stock from trampling it into a bog; near by was a duster of piñon trees; below the seep in the narrow gorge was a thin strip of willows.

Among the scenes of desolation around the grimly cold volcano, alone, the old Indian made his last stand, and in a rude cabin, beside a tiny spring that seeped from under the black rock on the mountain-side, lived in splendid isolationsilent, brooding, desiring only to be left in peace with his few ponies, his small herd of cattle and the memories and traditions of his people.

Smoke was seeping through cracks at the back of the building.

Now the same summons had seeped around to him from another direction.

That was the date when Charles Darwin's great fructifying theory, enunciated in 1859, began to seep into the South.

Something, she reflected, some part of that desolate winter, must have seeped to the very roots of her being to produce the state of mind in which she embarked upon that matrimonial voyage.

It was about noon and the seep water had filled a pool in the middle of the cellar.

The cold drizzle fell on the shelter of brush and saplings, and some of it seeped through.

" "I do not understand" "In the North few of us understand," agreed the young man with a hint of bitterness seeping through his voice.

One night at the Club, he asked me why I didn't buy one of those houses in Lily Lane, fix up a studio in one of the upper rooms, and then show it to her some summer morning and let it seep in slowly that it was hersand my heart, too" "Beautiful!"

The panes of the glass dome were glowing under the rays of the sun, but they allowed only a diffuse, green light, a discreet, soft, crypt-like clarity to seep through into the Chamber that lay below in monastic calm.

You saw his flabby throat a-quiver, his eyes melting, saw his cheeks kindle, and youth seeping into the lean man like water over a crumbling dam.

It began to rain by and by, not heavily, but a slow, dull, seeping fall that was inexpressibly dreary, and the thick, clammy darkness, shot with mists and vapors from the lake, rolled up to the very edge of the fires.

Little Diver, Destiny for you, Like as for me, is shod in silence; Years may seep into your soul The bacilli of the usual and the expedient; I implore Neptune to claim his child to-day!

The wells were especially dangerous, as it was the common custom to wash clothing around them so that water containing disease germs frequently seeped into wells used by whole villages.

Because it is not in the nature of the normal human to keep his soul always under the lock and key of utter silence, a little of his hate and a little of his hope seeped into the ears of Manuel, whose poultices of herbs were doing their work upon the bruised muscles of José's shoulder, and whose epithets against the two gringos who were responsible for his exile from the Picardo hacienda had the peculiar flavor of absolute sincerity.

A little below this glade was a place, shady and cool, where a seep of water came from under a bank.

In one of the perpendicular portions it seemed to be a varigated clay formation, and a little water seeped down its face.

This stream was a very small one, seeping out from a great pile of rocks, and maintaining itself till it reached the sands, where it disappeared completely.

This would gradually soak through the ashes and seep out of the bottom of the barrel which they tipped up so that it would drain the lye out into a vessel.

Strange stories of Bob's doings began to seep into my office.

The condition could not last long; faster and faster the water would seep into her hold, until suddenly, without warning, perhaps, she must go down like a stone.

When the throb of the drum and the blare of the brass had set the heart of the town to dancing, some wave of the ecstasy seeped through the lilac bushes and into the quiet house.