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Sentences starting with mud

Mud barges were fairy palaces; Arab punts beautiful gondolas; the ragged Egyptians on the banks became picturesque; and the desolate country behind them had a wide vestibule of splendour. [11]

Sentences ending with mud

First it was with the mud. [5]
The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud. [5]
When they passed through a village they all rushed to the wells and fought for the water and drank it down to the mud. [2]
They were splashing through a sea of mud. [9]
Can you endure the thought that by your hand innocence may be consigned to vice, the rose trodden under foot in the mud? [10]
In those days the streets will be fetlock deep in soft mud. [9]
The door of the shed at the back was open, and the dog-chains lay covered with frost and half embedded in mud. [11]
The pavements along the river front were bad: the sidewalks were rather out of repair; there was a rich abundance of mud. [5]
The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud. [2]
That gentleman was suddenly aged, and his clothes were wet and spattered with mud. [9]

Short sentences using mud

Goolah----Porous water-jar of Nile mud. [11]

Sentences containing mud two or more times

It was Mississippi river water, the best in the world, and we stirred up the mud in it to see if that would help, but no, the mud wasn't any better than the water. [5]
There is nothing pretty about an Indian village--a mud one--and I do not remember that we saw any but mud ones on that long flight to Allahabad. [5]
Her mind dwelt on the little mud hut and the onion field, and she saw down by the foreshore of the river the great khiassas from Assouan and Luxor laden with cotton or dourha or sugar-cane, their bent prows hooked in the Nile mud. [11]
It is a little bunch of dirt-colored mud hovels jammed together within a mud wall. [5]
I watched the "concentrators" at work big tanks containing mud and water and invisible diamonds--and was told that each could stir and churn and properly treat 300 car-loads of mud per day 1,600 pounds to the car-load--and reduce it to 3 car-loads of slush. [5]

More example sentences with the word mud in them

When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve. [2]
He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident. [2]
Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony. [11]
Donovan Pasha went with her to the room with the mud floor where Kingsley Bey was confined. [11]
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying. [5]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
The corduroy roads which our horses stumble over through the mud, they make as well as march on. [9]
The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
Twelve hundred men were landed at Beauport, in the mud and low water, under one Major Walley. [11]
Of course the water was nowhere as clear or of as fine a complexion as it is in some other seasons of the year; for now it was at flood stage, and therefore dimmed and blurred by the mud manufactured from caving banks. [5]
For within the walls of the city, and on the shore of Beauport, protected by its mud flats--a splendid moat--the French more than held their own. [11]
The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. [2]
It is a vision of dusty sterility, decaying temples, crumbling tombs, broken mud walls, shabby huts. [5]
Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
India is one vast farm--one almost interminable stretch of fields with mud fences between. [5]
And so the two begin to hoot and yell, and throw mud and bricks at the Good Templars; and, of course, they break up the procession. [5]
I splashed and tumbled along down it in mud and water. [4]
We left the trolley-car and tramped through the mud a hundred yards or so to the school, talking about the time we and Warner walked out there years ago, and the pleasant time we had. [5]
Our object was to strike a trail that led from the Au Sable Pond, the other side of the mountain-range, to an inlet on Mud Pond. [4]
It is proposed to reduce the width where excessive by brushwood dykes, at first low, but raised higher and higher as the mud of the river settles under their shelter, and finally slope them back at the angle upon which willows will grow freely. [5]
And they walk to and from the pigsties which they inhabit--four miles each way, through mud and slush, rain, snow, sleet, and storm, daily, year in and year out. [5]
If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud--never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. [5]
Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, and fell on his hands. [2]
And presently, as they splashed through the mud near the Arsenal, they met a knot of gentlemen in state uniforms on their way to the city. [9]
The first day there is slush with rain; the second day, mud with hail; the third day a flood with sunshine. [4]
The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building. [10]
By daylight, when the tide was out, the pretty silver bay of the night before was a mud flat, and the tourists, looking over it from Monument Hill, lost some of their respect for the Pilgrim sagacity in selecting a landing-place. [4]
Flying half-way across the room, it alighted on the table, and a little mud from the heel dropped on the clean scoured surface. [11]
Nicodemus tugging at the reins, and great splotches of mud flying in at the windows. [9]
She backed from the Nile mud, lunged free. [11]
An article in the New Orleans 'Times-Democrat,' based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico--which brings to mind Captain Marryat's rude name for the Mississippi--'the Great Sewer. [5]
She longed for the mud hut at Beni Souef, and the smell of the river and the little field of onions she planted every year. [11]
Four curses are the local inheritance: droughts, dust, mud, and canker-worms. [6]
That is, to the feeding of his family; for they live in a mud hut, hand-made, and, doubtless, rent-free, and they wear no clothes; at least, nothing more than a rag. [5]
Our guides shot the canoe deftly between two of these, the prow grounded in the yellow mud, and we landed on Spanish territory. [9]
The grape and the bath and the mud make a show and do a trifle of the work--the real work is done by the surreptitious starvation. [5]
When I guessed that I must be close to the river, I suddenly stepped into mud up to my ankles. [4]
He flew at that dead corpse and kicked it, spat in its face, danced upon it, crammed mud into its mouth, laughing, jeering, cursing, and volleying forth indecencies and bestialities like a drunken fiend. [5]
There was a temple in the town, with a mud wall about it ornamented with skulls of enemies sacrificed to the sun. [5]
I used to take it in my coffee, but it settled to the bottom in the form of mud, and I had to eat it with a spoon; so I dropped the custom and took my 2 teaspoonfuls in cold milk after breakfast. [5]
This desire was stimulated by a legend related by our guide that night in the Mud Pond cabin. [4]
Covered with dust, splashed from head to foot with mud, bruised, tortured as if on the rack, he clung to the saddle, yet never ceased to use whip and spur, and would trust his message to no other horseman. [10]
The roads were sometimes good, and sometimes as execrable as a colonial byway in winter, with mud up to the axles. [9]
So we tramped some four miles through the mud and fog, and finally found his "apartments"; they consisted of a single room over a barber's shop in a back street. [5]
Sodden piles of snow still hid the curb and gutters, but the pavements were trailed with mud that gleamed in the light from the shop windows. [9]
We were pleasantly situated in a small two-storied inn, in an empty large compound which was surrounded by a mud wall as high as a man's head. [5]
At the creek's side the boat was gone, and there were footsteps in the mud. [9]
Walking without a shoe was difficult, and, when he saw the Queen look down sorrowfully at the cloths which swathed the foot, he said while toiling on: "Imagine that we have been hunting and the boot remained stuck in the mud. [10]
They could not see the horses, but only heard them splashing through the unseen mud. [2]
Several times she sank so deep into the mud that her shoe stuck fast in it, and she was obliged to force it on again with much difficulty. [10]
There were several rows and clusters of shabby frame-houses, and a supply of mud sufficient to insure the town against a famine in that article for a hundred years; for the overflow had but lately subsided. [5]
I found that road mud, I paved it with corpses. [5]
The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
Her regimen of punishments would not necessarily include mud walls and floor, and a sleeping-mat and a balass of water; and whatever it included it should not be administered by any hand save her own. [11]
There are no pleasing associations connected with the great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mouth. [5]
He went on playing in the mud just the same, and enjoying it, too; but, instead of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it afforded. [5]
He's in that pilot house, now, showing those mud turtles how to hunt for easy water. [5]
Only someone's orderly passed through the gateway, splashing through the mud, and talked to the innkeeper. [2]
In unfolding the paper Laflamme purposely dropped it in the mud. [11]
We observe that our contemporary of the Mud Springs Morning Howl has fallen into the error of supposing that the election of Van Werter is not an established fact, but he will have discovered his mistake before this reminder reaches him, no doubt. [5]
Says it's mud, or some sich kind o' nastiness that sticks on n' covers up everything. [5]
But moving about on this mountain is not a holiday pastime; and we were chiefly anxious to discover a practicable mode of descent into the great wilderness basin on the south, which we must traverse that afternoon before reaching the hospitable shanty on Mud Pond. [4]
The sun rose on that 25th of February, and the mud melted, and one of our companies drew up on each side of the gate. [9]
A strange thought of their futility struck me as I climbed the rail fence beside them, and pushed on into the main road, the mud sucking under my shoes as I went. [9]
Hodder looked out of the window of the sleeper to read the sign 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory. [9]
They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. [5]
Unlike the manner of her people, Soada turned and went back into her house, and threw herself upon the mud floor, and put the folds of her garment in her mouth lest she should cry out in her agony. [11]
That morning, Cossacks of Denisov's party had seized and carried off into the forest two wagons loaded with cavalry saddles, which had stuck in the mud not far from Mikulino where the forest ran close to the road. [2]
French realism does not stop at the tin pan, but must deal with the slop-pail and the wash-tub as if it were literally true that "In the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. [6]
The rain and mud of course were to be calculated upon. [7]
I says: "Throwin' mud ain't arguin', Tom Sawyer. [5]
We stirred up much mud, but did not touch the bottom. [5]
He only told me that Edds is in the Army of the Potomac, and that he fell out of the ranks during Burnside's mud march last winter. [7]
He was lapping me in the mud. [11]
Dicky gave a long perplexed whistle as he ran softly under the palms towards the Amenhotep, lounging on the mud bank. [11]
It will look like that--in a mud-cell, with mud floor, and a piece of matting. [11]
It is a law of our nature, of course, or it wouldn't happen; the thing in me forgets the presence of the mud image and goes its own way, wholly unconscious of it and apparently of no kinship with it. [5]
Between the Lower Lake and the settlements is an extensive forest, traversed by a cart-path, admirably constructed of loose stones, roots of trees, decayed logs, slippery rocks, and mud. [4]
What should she know of hospitals--she whose medicaments had been herbs got from the Nile valley and the cool Nile mud? [11]
You know the kind of thing: mud walls and floor--quite dry, of course--and a sleeping-mat, and a balass of water, and cakes of dourha, and plenty of time to think. [11]
It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. [5]
Watchful, but not interfering, the master of the troopers saw him set adrift in a canoe without a paddle, while he was pelted with mud from the shore. [11]
Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud pushed the guns and wagons themselves. [2]
Mr. Worthington stopped in his tracks, and it was some time before he remembered to take off his woollen cap and sweep the mud with it. [9]
Five minutes later Ilyin, splashing through the mud, came running back to the shanty. [2]
And no sensation I know of is equal to that of the moment when the mud and sticks and oranges are coming through the windows of your coach, when the dirty weavers are clutching at your ruffles and shaking their filthy fists under your nose. [9]
Hear the Rain, how he pours, and the Hail, how he rattles; and see the Snow, how he drifts along, and of the Mud, how deep he is! [5]
Men clad in homespun, perspiring and spattered with mud, were straggling along the road by fours, laughing and joking together. [9]
The prince picked himself out of the mud, and made fiercely at the sentry, shouting-- "I am the Prince of Wales, my person is sacred; and thou shalt hang for laying thy hand upon me! [5]
That left me high and dry in the mud. [9]
Instinctively she buried her face in the mud, and her arms covered her head. [11]
To go as he is, with the mud up to his lips--ah, can't you see! [11]
We make a great mistake if we suppose it is a feeling of ferocity that sets these men tramping about in gorgeous uniform, in mud or dust, in rain or under a broiling sun. [4]
The mud deposit gradually extends the land--but only gradually; it has extended it not quite a third of a mile in the two hundred years which have elapsed since the river took its place in history. [5]
It would, as Gow Johnson said, "Let him sit back and view the landscape o'er, before he puts his ploughshare in the mud. [11]
After the train got out of the way he crawled out of the briars and the mud, and got upon the track. [5]
There were a good many thousand tracks in the mud the next morning, but they were all outward bound. [5]
The house was gone--gone hundreds of years ago--every last rag of it gone but just one mud brick. [5]
Across the river from the city, on the pasty mud behind the levee's bank were dumped Sherman's regiments, condemned to week of ditch-digging, that the gunboats might arrive at the bend of the Mississippi below by a canal, out of reach of the batteries. [9]

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