Now they are up in the slushy snow, where the dirty, yellow water seethes and bubbles round their lashing tails; now they disappear in a flickering zigzag down to the bottom.
As it was plodding up the slushy drive, James, overcoated and hatted, stood on the porch ready to get into it.
There was something rather fine, something high-bred and gently proud about the way she grasped her umbrella and embarked on the long slushy ascent to the house.
The plateau, however, lay on the northern side of a great peak, and was covered with slushy snow.
The insubordination and insolence of Bouquet angered him; and darting forward, he collared his rebellious subordinate, and flung him backward down the slushy rampart.
Out over the slushy snow the two started, the Boy with his light single-barrelled shotgun slung over one shoulder, the dog trotting close at his heels.
On a slippery and slushy morning in early spring, some six months after dog and man formed their lifepartnership, Dan started through a corner of Pitvale for his daily hike.
But it was fine now overhead, and the stars began to twinkle brightly, while the slushy roads were fast growing crisp; but not crisp enough to prevent moisture from creeping through into Shadrach's boots.
The river is swollen to double its usual size, and the slushy misery endured by the military under canvas is quite beyond general camp experience.
As one trudges across the slushy road over Ballinrobe Fair Green, the illuminated tents light up the foreground pleasantly, while the moon tinges the tree-tops and the river Robe with silver.
The sounds and smells are realistic; one hears the boat cut harshly into the slushy sand; the sharp scratch of the match; one inhales the thick, heavy odor radiating from the sea-scented beach that has absorbed all day the hot rays of the sun.
The snow surface was soft, even slushy in places, and the heat amongst the bergs along the coast of the mainland was very oppressive.
Many of the hollows contained water from thawed snow, and in others there was a treacherous crust which hid a slushy pool.
It was not a large fortune, but it was their whole fortune, that straggled along the slushy road in the shape of five hundred weary, hungry turkeys, which were looking for a roosting-place.
The day was comparatively warm, but the snow was not slushy nor very deep.
It was not like the grinding of the old formed ice, nor was it the slushy scraping of sludge.
To-day a tantalizing seal kept me prostrate upon the slushy ice for an hour and a half.
With the slushy earth under my body I lay and watched the people inside eating, drinking, and making merry.
I hated the brown earth, the slushy muck and gritty rock, but in the end hatred died out and I was almost left without passion or longing.
Over the snow, which was slushy under the April sun of midday, and finally into Adonia over the rutted grit that the evening chill had frozen, the baron of the Noda was driven to the door of his mansion on the ledges.
Well, Dicky, as a describer you sure are the slushy spreader.
I had just got my head above the slushy ice and started cutting loose my ski thongs when he appeared on the bank above.
Half-way over the whole right side of the slushy cap sliced off and let me flounder down into the waist-deep pool.
I stood still, as though stunned, looking after her, and when halfway across the slushy street she turned and smiled again.
One of those useless, slushy afternoons, I took Tom for a walk that led us, as dusk came on, past Nancy's house.
Indeed, the bottom of the hill is dense with irises loving the slushy percolated soil.
Emerging from the vestibule of the theatre, Janet seemed not to see the slushy street, her eyes shone with a silver light like that of a mountain lake in a stormy sunset.
The big dapple grays had run four miles dragging the heavy fire engine through the slushy snow.
Stud led the way and the others followed, Indian file, down the slushy lane to the tobacco sheds.
Three nights of vigil, each thinking miserably and wistfully of the other, had worn the nerves of both man and girl until they were ready to melt together at a touch.
The night of the 14th-15th had been marked by one of those tropical downpours, so common in the rainy season, and the surface of the veldt was in consequence slushy and wet, trying the artillery and cavalry horses more than ever.
They had plodded through leagues of rain-swept bush, had forded icy rivers, had slept in wet fern and sometimes slushy snow, and had toiled together with pick and drill.
Carroll made no comment He had a vivid recollection of one or two of those other journeys, during which they had spent arduous days floundering through slushy snow and had slept in saturated blankets, and sometimes shelterless in bitter frost.
