Her eyes went from the lightly tossed hair on his brow to the mud-spattered bootswas he only a human being?

By the tongs and shovel lay a pair of riding boots, still so wet and mud-spattered that he must have pulled them off within the hour.

She was crying like a weak, unnerved woman, draggled and mud-spattered, unspeakably distressed.

They did not speak to them; and when they were gone, they shook themselves as if their feathers had been mud-spattered.

Soon will the mud-spattered soldier be free; Soon will the sailor be home from the sea: Victory beams on the banners of Right, This is the time to be merry and bright; Stilled is the riot of shot and of shard