Men and women danced in moccasins, and the place was soon a-roar, Burning Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them.
Microscopically small had been the edges of the lung-tissue touched by the frost, but they now began to slough off, giving rise to a dry, hacking cough.
For there was the Wizard's Slough itself, as black as death, and bubbling, with a few scant yellow reeds in a ring around it.
But to the center of its pulpy gorge the greedy slough was heaving, and sullenly grinding its weltering jaws among the flags and the sedges.
Now there is a way between cliff and slough for those who know the ground thoroughly, or have time enough to search it; but for him there was no road, and he lost some time in seeking it.
And thus sinking more and more deeply in the great slough of humiliation, the unhappy leaders of the Caubul force groaned through the festal Christmas season.
One of these gave names to Crevice, Hell-roaring and Slough Creeks.
When the party came to it, they found a rushing torrent, and, in crossing, a pack horse and his load were swept away, but the name of Slough Creek remains.
You could never get into any proper relation to Jimville unless you could slough off and swallow your acquired prejudices as a lizard does his skin.
The first "Spring beauties" bloomed very early in that year; violets came out on the south side of rotting logs, and cowslips blossomed in the slough as they never had done before.
Dark swarms of wild ducks were in all the ponds; V-shaped flocks of geese and brants screamed overhead, and down in the slough cranes danced a solemn minuet.
Finally they came to a fallen tree extending from one side of the slough to the other.
Not far below the hollow log began a tiny slough which presently widened out until footprints were discernible in the mushy tussocks of what had before been a fringe of marsh-grass.
And on they went, the trail growing plainer as the slough widened and deepened.
Coming out on the shore, he saw the Madrona lying at the mouth of the slough with the thick smoke wreathing from her funnel.
Was it in the main channel, or below the slough to the inside of the island?
Once, over a slough a few yards wide, the Halfbreed built a bridge of willows, and we crawled on hands and knees to the other side.
Nigger Jim and Stillwater Willie--in what back slough of vicissitude do they languish to-day?
I've knew that light-green slough grass to cover the wurst sort o' quicksand.
The region of theSlough was, however, a different matter.
The Slough proper was about two miles long, and had probably eight or ten "holes" in which ducks might be expected.
Not a third had left the slough for this open country; we could not shoot at a tenth of those flushed, yet the guns were popping continuously.
Here and there the flatness broke in a long, low line of cottonwoods marking the winding course of a slough or trace of subsoil water.
Some of them flew ever ahead, some of them doubled-back and dropped into the slough behind us; but a proportion broke through the thicket and settled in the wide fields on the other side.
But again there are other places in the Slough region where one has to walk for half a mile to pass a miserable little trickle only just too wide to step across.
Wiggins said to him that he was last seen in the house of a woman at Slough who was found dead, when he replied that, ‘I was not at Slough yesterday—I know no one there.
He went down to Slough at five o’clock, and between six and seven Mrs. Ashley went round to the deceased’s house, in consequence of the noise she heard of stifled screaming.
I then asked him if he had been at Slough last night, and he said, ‘No, I did not leave town all day yesterday.
It must then have been nearly midnight, but so slowly did I creep along that I heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to Eton.
In the road between Slough and Eton I fell asleep, and just as the morning began to dawn I was awakened by the voice of a man standing over me and surveying me.
But, as you know, I have tried more than once to draw him out of the slough of intemperance on to firm ground, but in vain.
You wouldn't slough me at this gravel-pit, after you promised?
Sometimes, from no visible cause, large pieces of skin slough from the heel and pastern.
When Stephanus van der Walt arose from his knees he felt that his sins had fallen from him as the slough falls from a snake when the sun of Spring wakens it from its winter sleep.
But over and above this towered high the realisation of the task laid upon him,--the lifting of his brother's life from the slough in which it had been so long sunk.
The station-master at Slough was an extraordinary character, and full of importance, with an appearance in keeping.
I can also recall an opportunity being given us of witnessing from the platform of Slough station, gaily decorated for the occasion, the entry of a train which was conveying Victor Emmanuel, then King of Sardinia, to Windsor Castle.
There is a wagon road to Tower Falls, Slough Creek, and Soda Butte, but other points would have to be reached by trail, and guide and pack-train would be needed.
The best fishing near the roads is in Yellowstone Lake and River, Firehole River, Madison River, Lamar Creek and Slough Creek.
A trip could be made to include the petrified trees, Tower Falls, main buffalo herd, Specimen Ridge and Fossil Forest, and some of the best fishing in the Park in Yellowstone River in vicinity of Tower Falls, Lamar River and Slough Creek.
But before he had crossed the slough Alf had managed to free himself from one sleeve of his coat, and had got the lynx beneath him.
Ask the settlers of the Mussel Slough what is their experience of the pitiless rigor of the monopoly towards those who confidently trusted in the good faith of the great power.
Thus the Mussel Slough farmers got taken in, into Mr. Huntington's lines--as was stated by the public press.
Approaching this by a wagon road we came to a bridge across a slough perhaps two hundred yards from their fort.
The command, in the meantime, to avoid the fire that could be concentrated on the slough bridge, had flanked off to the left some distance above, and crossed on chunks and logs that had fallen in the slough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
