In its place, there remained an open expanse of wet mud, thickly covered with pools and the remains of beaver-houses, with a small river winding its way slowly through the slime.

From this, having ran four miles and a half on a North-West course, we passed over a small coral bank in thirteen fathoms; at eight o'clock, we were in forty-two fathoms sandy mud.

" The man followed out these instructions, and as he came shorewards with a great pile of the slimy mud on his shovel we all converged on the sieve, which the inspector took up and held over the tub, directing the constable and labourer to "lend a hand," meaning thereby that they were to crowd round the tub and exclude me as completely as possible.

The walls were made of dry mud and sticks.

Here and there, against the saffron tide, or under banks quaggy as melting chocolate, stooped a naked fisherman, whoswarthy as his background but for a loin-band of yellow fleshshone wet and glistening while he stirred a dip-net through the liquid mud.

As I have pointed out elsewhere, it at once became obvious that the calcareous sticky mud of the Atlantic was made up, in the main, of shells of Globigerina and other Foraminifera, identical with those of which the true chalk is composed, and the identity extended even to the presence of those singular bodies, the Coccoliths and Coccospheres, the true nature of which is not yet made out.

Then, in the face of heavy firing, they pounded their way over a mud flat nearly a mile wide, and hit the canal, which by then, had been drained, forming a deep ditch that would have stopped any other soldiers.

What matter for a little honest mud, prithee?" "Why 'tis mud!

The water at this pool near our camp being nearly consumed, and nothing but thick mud remaining, we proceeded down the creek in search of a better supply; but it was not until we had followed its dry sandy bed for three hours that we attained our object, and encamped at a small pool in one of the back channels, the principal bed of the creek being perfectly dry.

The roads, which had been drying, became a mass of slippery mud to the west of Jerusalem, and on the Hebron side the Welsh troops had to trudge ankle deep through a soft limy surface.

As the steamer stopped at last, her screw whirled up from the bottom clouds of yellow mud, the mingled deposits of the Caroni and the Orinoco.

Quicksands and beds of tenacious mud impede one at every step.

In this bath he laid himself comfortably down, and began to roll and wallow about until he mixed up a trough full of thin soft mud, which completely covered him.

To make it certain I stooped down, striking a momentary flash from my tinder-box, and there sure enough was my own old track very clearly marked in the brown mud in front of me.

I gave a last savage wrench, but my foot slipped in the treacherous mud, and I as nearly as possible stumbled to my knees.

Katrah was a village on a long mound south of Mughar, native mud huts constituting its southern part, whilst separated from it on the northern side by some gardens was a pretty little Jewish settlement whose red-tiled houses and orderly well-cared-for orchards spoke of the industry of these settlers in Zion.

Well, I could alter mine eyes from filthy mud into fair water: you have paid for my tears, and mine eyes shall prove bankrouts, and break out for you.

His artillery, with the horses dragging the pieces, sank into the almost bottomless mud, where they stuck fasteven the foot-soldiers found it difficult to march through the quagmireand the whole movement was speedily abandoned.

His white necktie proclaimed him a parson, and the grey mud with which his boots were bespattered told of his long walk.

Surrounded by fields of tobacco and maize, it is neatly laid out, and presents a cheerful appearance, the buildings being of white stone, instead of the everlasting baked mud and clay.

Whatever we saw of the interior, appeared to be low patches of bare mud, which bespoke frequent inundations.

Curiously enough, in this stiff mud, along roadways where there is frequently a little leakage from canals, grows the only western representative of the true heliotropes (Heliotropium curassavicum).

A fearful trench it was, with a deep deposit of dark green filthy, watery mud from end to end.

His leathers and boots were doubtless clean this morning; but are now afflicted with elephantiasis, being three inches deep in solid mud, which his old groom is scraping off as fast as he can.

It was next to impossible to haul field guns anywhere off the road, and as the Turks had paid no attention to the highway for some timeor where they had done something it was merely to dump down large stones to fill a particularly bad holeit had become deeply rutted and covered with a mass of adhesive mud.