And outside the cold January stars were reflected in the puddles of Hagworth Street.
With the glass let down against the rain, they were forced very near to one another as the horse trotted along Tottenham Court Road shining withpuddles in the lamplight.
After another two miles of puddles and darkness, the heavy air was tempered with an unwonted freshness.
At the end of the road, under the tall plane tree where once Jenny had danced, they sat in the old hansom cab, while the steam rose in clouds from the horse and the puddles sang with rain and the driver smoked meditatively.
His appearance was not very prepossessing, for between the caves and the big house a number of newly created mud-puddles and rivulets had crossed his path.
He had been playing at Delight Makers in the mud-puddles outside with some of his comrades, and was covered with splashes of mud from head to foot.
Through the roof of mud and brush rivulets of water began to burst, forming little puddles on the mud floor and dripping on the heads of the two women.
They thanked us very charmingly and I watched their departure, the reflections of the light playing over the deep puddleson the road.
The puddles in the road were draining off into rocky crannies, and the very air seemed to have been washed of some of its all-pervading reek of fish.
In many such malaria causes the bulk of the sickness, and may often, I think, originate from two or three small puddles of a few square yards in size.
The rain fell endlessly, rattling on the roof of the car, dancing silver in the coffee-coloured puddles of the road.
They could hear almost constantly the grinding roar of camions on the road behind the café and the slither of their wheels through the mud-puddles where the road turned into the village.
The rain fell in perpendicular sheets, pattering on the roof of the car and on the puddles that filled the village street.
The traces of natives were numerous and recent, and I imagine they must obtain their supply of water at puddles in the plains, but we could find none at present.
A few miles beyond this we halted for the night, where there was good grass for the horses and plenty of water in the puddles around us.
In some of these plains we found large puddles of water much discoloured by the soil, so that it was evident there had been heavy rains in this direction, though we had none to the southward.
During our progress to the south we had frequently showers and occasionally heavy rains, which lodging in puddles on the plains, supplied us abundantly with water, and we were unusually fortunate enough to obtain grass also.
In place of the water I left there in the morning was a large empty basin of mud, with a few large puddles of water lying at the bottom, and a few hillocks of mud denoting the places which had once been shallows.
Beyond this, I remember with affection the ill-proportioned little Place des Hommes; not at all monumental, and given over to puddles and to shabby cafes.
Beyond this, I remember with affection the ill-proportioned little Place des Hommes; not at all monumental, and given over to puddles and to shabby cafés.
Puddles and splashes shaped like great crowns, as though liquid rock had congealed at the very height of its torment.
A gun-crew screamed and died as one of the needle-nosed machines melted into puddles of steel.
They grew toward each other and ran together into little puddles of light.
The rain had evidently blown into the place during the shower, for it lay in puddles on the stone floor.
That road below is in fine shape for that purpose, then," said Jess, looking through the pouring rain at the puddles in the roadway.
This was the more distressing as the road, from some recent rain, was full of little puddles of clear water, yet not a drop was drinkable.
It was almost a pleasure to splash through the little puddles in its poorly paved streets.
PART FOUR: RUST I There were tiny green frogs in one of the putty-colored puddles by the roadside.
They passed brick-kilns and clay-quarries, with reddish puddles of water in the bottom of them; crossed a jade-green river where a long file of canal boats with bright paint on their prows moved slowly.
The station platform, where puddles from the night's rain glittered as the wind ruffled them, was empty.
The company was lined up in the dark with their feet in the mud puddlesof the road.
They followed a board-walk that splashed mud up from the puddles under the tramp of their heavy boots.
They marched down a rutted road where the puddles were so deep they had continually to break ranks to avoid them.
The sleet had stopped; but the pavements were covered with slush and in the gutters were large puddles which the wind ruffled.
In groups, talking with crisp voices, cheered by the occurrence of events, the company straggled across the great stretch of mud puddles towards the mess shack.
He had a pocket flashlight that he kept flashing at the gaunt trunks of trees, in the faces of the company, at his feet, in the puddles of the road.
When the rain stopped they walked across wet fields by a foot path full of little clear puddles that reflected the blue sky and the white-and amber-tinged clouds where the shadows were light purplish-grey.
Gingerly holding the package by the string, Katherine picked her way through the rapidly widening puddleson the sidewalks to the station.
The rain had stopped now, and it was growing colder; the puddles on the sidewalk began to be filmed over with ice.
He has not till then noticed that two bigpuddles have been made by the snow melting off his boots on the floor.
There are puddles everywhere; the snow is melting.
It is the puddlesand the wind frisking with her skirt.
Carmen picks her way demurely across the puddles in the direction of the Vicarage.
An officer stepped over the lacerated, shattered body of a comrade of his mess with the abstracted impassiveness of one who finds his way over a puddle in the road; and here were puddles too--puddles of blood.
To obtain them, collect slime and water from various puddles in separate bottles and take them to the laboratory.
And where the puddles were a man might go up to his ankles in water and dirt.
And, while Cora was still laughing incredulously, Caleb girdled his tunic high and waded barefoot through the puddles of the palm-garden, looking round and laughing as he went.
Penny ran from the house and splashed through the puddleson the ground to where Mort lay.
She avoided the swelling puddles between the house and the corral.
For a few moments Jerrie stood listening to the sound of his footsteps as he went splashing through the wet grass and puddles of water; then, kissing her hands to him, she whispered: 'Poor Dick!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puddles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
