I want it," cried the strange girl, and she stepped forward quickly as though to seize the muddy vase.
In a few moments, becoming impatient of the shovel, she cast it aside and stooping, with her feet planted firmly in the muddy earth, she groped in the hole with both hands.
We were now marched through the Customs House into a narrow lane, muddy from recent rains; here we had to wait until our baggage was examined.
No muddy politics as an elegant amusement for him.
He would have to live in a muddy trench, sleep in mud, eat in mud, plough through mud, in the midst of falling shells and other instruments of death.
We agree with Darwin (speaking of the Plata), that "a wide expanse of muddy water has neither grandeur nor beauty.
The water is always of a turbid yellow; while the Napo, though muddy during our voyage, is usually clear.
A cloud of butterflies flew up as I approached, where the running water of a tiny rill made muddy hollows on the path.
His scout of four, he admitted, had made a bad job of the swamp trail--and his muddy and disordered dress corroborated this.
There was only a heavy knife at the beaded girdle, which belted his hunting shirt and breeches of muddy tow-cloth.
Quite near at hand also ran the broad and muddy Jordan, whose fertile banks were clothed in spring with the most delicious greenery and haunted by kingfishers, cranes, wildfowl, and many other birds.
Then in a flash Caleb recognised the place, as well he might, seeing that on many and many an evening had he and Miriam sat side by side upon that stone, angling for fish in the muddy stream of Jordan.
He held down the light, and the marks ofmuddy boots were very visible in the corner.
The broad street was churned up by the traffic into a horrible rutted paste of muddy snow.
The next proceeding is the burying of the seed, which is generally effected by drawing a large beam of timber over the muddy surface, though at times, when the consistency is greater, the seed is covered in by hand-hoeing.
He also took a keen delight in watching the thirsty wayfarers come up to the well-curb, let down the bucket, and draw it up again, with only a few drops of muddy water.
The shining water-mirror, which usually was seen very near the opening, had sunk deep down, and the dirt and slime at the bottom of the well made it muddy and impure.
All the way up the squalid and muddy avenue of that day he mused and wondered: "Who is Fitzhugh?
She could hardly ever remember the road out there so bad and muddy as it was now.
The irregularly cut up, black muddy roadway led into a forge and implement yard.
He had his week's wages in his pocket, so they made a short cut through two or three muddy back yards, which had planks laid down across the worst places, up to the baker's shop.
As you approach the entrance to Barton Broad, the bottom becomes muddy again, and the Broad itself is full of mud; there being large "hills" where the water is not more than two feet deep.
With ammunition-bags still strapped to their heads, in case they should find it necessary to enter the creek again, they plunged on through the swamp, leaving a black trail of muddy water behind them.
As for remaining here, it is out of the question, for though we have been very careful it was quite impossible to set foot upon the soft and muddy bank without leaving impressions behind us.
Before long they struck into a broad, muddy belt, full of innumerable small hoof tracks.
Bo was out of sight, but the deep, muddy tracks in wet places and the path through the long grass afforded Helen an easy trail to follow.
Bann'd be those hours when, 'mongst the learned throng, By Granta's muddybank we whilome sung!
You muddy gulch[314], dar'st look me in the face, While mine eyes sparkle with revengeful fire?
A happy omen, that bow of promise arched over the young heads, as if Heaven smiled upon their union, and showed them that above the muddy earth and rainy skies the blessed sun still shone for all.
And down went Mrs Jo to prepare for the invasion, while Josie and the maids flew about dismayed at the prospect of so many muddy boots.
The handrail of the bridge alone appeared above the muddy stream; even this was submerged occasionally as a wave rolled up from the turbulent bar, barely one hundred yards below the bridge.
Then the river, banked up at its exit, overflows the low lands that lie to the east of the town, turning a green valley into a muddy lake.
There had been a heavy shower in the early part of the afternoon, the gutters were still full of water, and although he was not hurt by his fall, yet in the shock the shoes were dashed from his hand, and fell into the muddy bath.
On one side of them rolled the muddy waters of the Tiber, from which they had been snatched when infants, and around them rose the other elevations over which the "seven-hilled" city of the future was destined to spread.
Now the canals are all filled up, and the city is four miles from the sea, so large have been the deposits from the muddy waters that flow down the rivers into the Adriatic at that place.
So I would have the angels trouble this muddy pool that it may be well with the people; for you know, Governor Medary, that this people is very sick.
Even so, Governor, I admit that you know best how muddy that pool is, but you remember the Bethesda of old; how the angel had to go in and trouble the waters before the sick could be healed.
But, Mrs. Nichols, you would not have women go down into the muddy pool of politics?
A few minutes of vigorous work with the axe, a few minutes of relentless tugging and jerking upon the upper framework of the dam, and he had made a break through which the water rushed foaming in a muddy torrent.
In half a second the beavers had vanished noiselessly under water, down the canal, leaving but a swirl of muddy foam to mark their going.
No creature being in sight, he cut straight across the grass to the water's edge, and scanned the muddy margin for foot-prints.
On June 26 we left Vintain, and continued our course up the deep and muddy river.
The next day the colour of the wilderness changes from muddy grey to deep black, and the sun soared up, white-hot, in a clear blue sky.
The scarlet curlew breeds in innumerable quantities in the muddy islands on the coasts of Pomauron; the egrets in the same place.
Its waters are very clear, and it rushes along with a speed which is delightful to see, after an acquaintance with the muddy and sluggish Avon and Leam.
He left his books on the floor, and his muddy shoes on the table; he put his fingers in the jam pots, and spilled ink on his best pinafore; there was really no end to his untidiness.
Her silky coat was all sweaty and muddy and her feet heavy with weariness, but her bright eyes looked up at her masters as if she were trying to explain where she had been.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muddy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
