In a peat or muck swamp, we should expect that such drains, if carefully constructed, might last twenty years, but that in a sandy loam they would be quite unreliable for a single year.
As if clooas made a chap ony better, Or riches improved a man's heart; As if muck in a carriage smell'd sweeter Nor th' same muck wod smell in a cart.
These bars are called muck bars owing to their spongy-like appearance and the large quantity of cinders which they contain.
Muck could not get out of the way and the ball made his leg buckle under him.
In the din no one heard what he said, but evidently Muckdivined it.
Muck Harris could not bat, yet he hit the first ball and it shot like a bullet over the infield.
On the other hand, Madden's Hill hit Muck Harris hard, but superb fielding kept runners off the bases.
A dial beam on a sorry day would make a muck o’ basting.
But it seems to me impossible that such Muck should be applied to almost any reasonably dry land, without improving its consistency and increasing its fertility.
I do know, however, that Muck is a valuable fertilizer, and that digging and composting it does pay.
All the manure made during the Winter should be spread over that which lies in the yard at least monthly; and then new Muck drawn in, to be rooted or scratched over, trampled into the underlying strata, and overspread in its turn.
Thus treated, I am confident that each hundred cords of Muck will be equal in value to an equal quantity of manure, though it may not give up its fertilizing properties so freely to the first crop that follows its application.
Let me speak ofMuck generally, in the light, of my own experience.
At first she thought he was endeavouring to rid himself of the fleas, but after a time she came to understand that the muck had healing qualities and soothed the burning scratches made by his claws.
In the heart of the jungle the dog had his private muck baths.
I crept to the top of it and lay there on the slant of the muck to watch.
Imagine such human muckas this; conceive of this folly!
People who wantmuck like that ought to keep to Soho.
Select your muck and rake it diligently until you find a large, fat check; then leave that pile and begin on another.
It's a deep-rooted crop of weeds that the muck rake won't loosen.
They were tattered and torn and foul with the muck and slime of their frontier work.
Father told me that the man with the muck rake, meant the miser.
Below the big pile of timber and muck on which I stood was a winding path, and other tracks on each side of it between the deep shell-craters, and down these ways came batches of prisoners and the trail of our walking wounded.
His blunderbuss was tilted carelessly up over one crooked elbow, for he trusted to the iron-shod hoofs of his hunting stallion to smash the rebel into the muck of the valley.
The cliff of reed-laced muck dwindled, and he turned the roan and leaped him up to the higher level of ground.
He was feeling the icy muck about his numbed legs.
I don't mean poetry or muck of that sort--serious literature.
Under continuous cultivation there is a constant shrinkage in muck soils, but with grass and live stock this is nearly, if not quite, counterbalanced.
The enormous area of muck lands in Florida, especially in the Everglades, can, it would seem, be utilized only with the aid of livestock.
Rhodes grass does wonderfully on muck soil, and, indeed, on most rich soils.
Carib grass on muck soils is, from limited data, superior to Para grass both in yield and quality.
On the muck lands the problem of pasturage is easy.
While there may be some fairly difficult problems to solve in handling live stock on muck soils, especially in the wet season, there can be little doubt that grass and live stock will insure the permanency of these lands.
Jim sat down on a pile of muck and mopped his brow.
They lived and died, rooted to some few acres of mud and muck because they feared what lay beyond.
I'll do it," promised the bully eagerly, and having gotten rid of some of the muck on his face and hands he stepped into the miniature swamp, and was soon attaching the rope to the rear of his car.
Heyday came into my head; this fellow flings muck beds; he must be a quartz pyx.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
