There was an awful moment, when earth, sky, arms, legs, wheels, and bushes seemed all mixed together, and then Jack Vance found himself resting on his hands and knees in a puddle of dirty water.

While seeking to avoid the puddles in her path, she walked on quickly, like one in a hurry, who goes about her business on foot in order to save herself the expense of a cab.

Rain water is used for drinking, and the method of preserving it is in a deep reservoir lined with boards and puddled with clay.

Subsisting as well as they could on rain puddles on the plains, Eyre and his boy searched about for some time and at last found a permanent-looking hole in a small creek.

Bert said; "there's nothing but puddles at the bottom.

the birds are allowed to puddle about on wet soil, or to be much out in the rain, they will get "chip."

Then Miss Nugent, sobbing piteously, rose from the puddle into which she had fallen and surveyed her garments.

These came in with the flood, and were left in the puddles between the broken rocks of the cove.

It has a canal, but the canal is a mud-puddle during one half the day and an empty ditch during the other.

I'll find dry places between the puddles for my dainty paws to step on.

Big bushes are best moved at the end of August, mixing the earth to a puddle before planting.

"Why not?" called Migwan in alarm, as the three girls stood still in the path, the water which was dripping out of their bathing suits collecting in a puddle around their feet.

The pipe was cracked, and the residuum of the Food of the Gods escaped through the crack into a little puddle amidst clumps of rushes, just in time for the spring awakening.

We could not speak from the constriction, till we found a little puddle under a stone.

In the gloom and the silence that followed, Dunburne could hear for a while nothing but the dash of the rain upon the roof and the ceaseless drip and trickle of the water running from the eaves into the puddles beneath the building.

On the next day the earth was yellow with sunlight, but there were puddles along the path, and a branch rushing swollen across the green valley in the fields.