His brain seemed to have jumped over a hurdle and come down in a puddle beyond, foul with the stuff it had found there.
The telephone melted slowly, dropping into a little cold puddle on the floor!
Once a mud puddle froze in front of the house where I used to live, and I got a broom and tried.
In one corner of the room, a Noah's ark, which later came to an untimely end on a mud-puddle cruise, had spilled its assortment of cardboard animals out on the carpet.
Not till reaching a deep puddle did she seem suddenly aware of the fact that she had been whipped.
The puddle was an endless source of amusement to them.
By lashing the water into waves, as they trotted in the wake of their frail craft, they managed to sail them from one end of the puddle to the other.
In the puddle floundered Alexis after the smaller dog, and as the water was not deep enough for Aunt Jo's Great Dane to swim in, he just ran through it, really making more of a splash than if he had swum.
Her eyes travelled along the street, from doorstep to doorstep, noting the wet sidewalks, with here and there a puddle in hollows that had been imperceptible until filled with water.
As I don't see any sign of that puddle now, would you mind telling me what that analysis established.
It did, as you know, and then dropped to the floor and melted away, leaving nothing but a little puddle of water behind it.
If it had been raining and there was any hole or leak in this roof, I should have said it was rainwater that had dripped in and formed a little puddle on the floor.
I have been told that there was a little puddle of water on the floor at the time the murder was discovered, also that you took a sample of it for analysis.
The phrase brought Cleek's thoughts harking back to what he had been told regarding the little puddle of water lying on the floor, and of a sudden his eyes narrowed, and the curious one-sided smile travelled up his cheek.
It opened easily, and I heard him splashing through a puddle in the gloomy yard.
At eleven o'clock Hunter called up; he said he was going after the affair himself, but that it was hard to stick a dip net into the political puddle without pulling out a lot more than you went after, or than it was healthy to get.
In case the weather is fine and dry, however, remember that a great deal can be done by planting each plant in a little puddle of water and shading it with a flower-pot or a box, or any little tent you can invent.
Ruth and Helen had wet their feet already; but they did not care to slop through the puddle on the porch again, so made their way to the ballroom through the main part of the house.
She backed out and stepped right into a puddle of water as deep as her ankles!
Edwardes lurched suddenly forward and remained motionless with his face down and his arms outspread upon the desk, while a tiny red puddle spread on the mahogany.
I want the blood of the Standishes and the Hamiltons to climb up and not to run down hill and die out in a rotting puddle at the bottom.
It was when he had just been put into skeletons (frocks never suited him) that he became very friendly with Master Tony Johnson, a younger brother of the young gentleman who sat in the puddle on purpose.
Next day she found Gummitch's bowl upset again and the remains of the boiled water in a puddle across the room.
Then she saw it standing in a puddle by the wall fully ten feet away from the bowl.
In the re-entering angles of the subjacent Wady the thrust of a stick is everywhere followed by the reappearance of stored-up rain, and the sole shows a largepuddle of brackish and polluted water.
I don’t mind such wet, after rain, as you have been accustomed to; but to stand in a puddle like this is a very different thing.
It was a wide puddle where I thought our craft should have floundered, but it made its way to the door, and left us dry shod within and glad to be quitting the city of my young dreams.
Well, that poor elephant was so ill that he had to lie down on the ground, and he cried and groaned, and the big tears rolled down his trunk, and made quite a mud puddle on the earth.
The same dimension was adopted for the puddle wall of the Harelaw reservoir, at Paisley, by Mr. Alexander Leslie, an engineer of considerable experience in dam construction.
There appears to be a question as to what the composition of puddle should be, some advocating a considerable admixture of gravel with clay.
There is a plugging of brickwork in cement under the center of the dam in the line of the puddle wall, and then stop walls built at the end of the plugging, projecting 25 ft.
The depth to which puddle trenches have been carried, for the purpose of penetrating water-bearing strata, and reaching impenetrable ground, in some cases, has been as much as 160 ft.
There is no doubt that clay intended for puddle should be exposed to the weather for as long previous to use as possible, and subject to the action of the air at any rate, of sunshine if there be any, or of frost.
There are, however, evident objections to this method, as the puddle being comparatively unprotected would be more liable to damage by vermin, such as water rats, etc.
The position of the puddle wall is, as a rule, in the center of the bank and vertical; but laying a thickness of puddle upon the inner or up stream slope, say 3 ft.
At the trench crossing there would be a bed of puddle 50 ft.
As she passed over the rug, the puddle passed too.
By the time he got through with a partridge there was not much left of it but a puddle of brown feathers.
He visited them once too often, for one summer evening, as he was gnawing away at the site of an ancient puddle of molasses, the accommodation train rolled in and came to a halt.
I crawled along for a few minutes, following the line of the damp floor, and, sure enough, came to a hollow where a good-sized puddle had collected.
So, if a member of a rescue party puts his foot in a puddle of water where there has been stink damp around, so much of the gas may suddenly come up in his face as to topple him over.
The hounds trotted meekly after her, one or another pausing now and then to drink at a wayside puddlebefore being rebuked for bad manners by a watchful whip.
I walked into a mud-puddle on purpose, for the fun of it," said Peggy.
