This is called running a muck.

From the hour when he found muck, and sea-weed, and guano, he felt assured of the means of subsistence; being in truth, though he may not have known it himself, more in danger of falling behind hand, in consequence of the indisposition to activity that almost ever accompanies the abundance of a warm climate, than from the absolute want of the means of advancing.

He was feeling the icy muck about his numbed legs.

This is the beautiful way in which Nature gets her muck, while I chaffer with this man and that, who talks to me about sulphur and the cost of carting.

Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements and modes of culture only!

We thought that it would be easier not to wash it, and it was bad enough to justify the term "muck," which was applied to it by the kitchen oracles, who rejoiced exceedingly in our discomfiture.

Tell me, Gussie, to settle a bet, do you really like that muck?" "Very much.

I don't look muck like a lover, Yet I say her love words over.

Oh, to hark the eagle screaming, sweeping, ringing round the sky That's a bonnier life than stumbling ower the muck to colt and kye.

He had taken up literature"not muck like poetry, but serious literature"and Whipple money had lavishly provided a smart little craft in which to embark.

Now if their guest of honor, with or without his friend, would but stop at this pool to wash the Stock-Landing muck from his horse's shinsbut even luck has its limits.

P'r'aps you'll think as it ain't a tasty subjic, before a lot o' nice, clean, respectable people as never 'ad anythin' worse on their fingers than a bit of lawn-dirt, playin' crokey; but some one 'as to see to the drains, some one 'as to clear up the muck of the world!

Every scientific agriculturist knows that erosion is one of the chief causes of loss in soil fertility and that in the basins and deltas of streams and rivers there is going to waste enough muck to make all of our land rich.

At last the steamer itself, as we came nearer the head of the bay, was pitched out of the right channel and driven a-muck.