Suddenly the darkness was pierced by a short shriek of mingled pain and rage, the thud of blows falling on some soft object, and the unmistakable squelching of many feet in the tenacious slime.
The expectation of snipe was so intense that to Levin the squelchingsound of his own heel, as he drew it up out of the mire, seemed to be the call of a snipe, and he clutched and pressed the lock of his gun.
The other horses too were frightened, and splashing through the water with their hobbled legs, and drawing their hoofs out of the thick mud with a squelching sound, they bounded out of the marsh.
And then, far away on the very edge of the green treacly sea, they saw a squirming and a squelching and clouds of steam, and all sorts of exciting and unpleasant things happening very suddenly and all together.
The light died, and the line rose and moved on, squelching softly in the mud.
Splashing and squelching footsteps were heard outside, the door-curtain swung aside, and the Centre Driver ducked in, took off a soaking cap, and jerked a glistening spray off it into the darkness.
The five officers passed on, squelching loudly, and once again peace and silence reigned in the sunken road.
But at last the traffic wore thinner as the road approached the front line, and an hour and a half after he had left the lorry, it stopped altogether, save for pack-mules and squelching men.
Majestically, squelchingthrough the mud, came Tiny Tim, or the Tired Tank.
When, towards morning, he did fall into a heavy sleep, it was only to dream of Lalage, with the mud and rain squelchingthrough her shoes, looking for someone to give her shelter.
To walk about hour after hour with the mud squelching through your shoes, and nothing to eat; and getting more hopeless as midnight comes on.
We lost consciousness of everything except driving snow, squelching mud, aching backs and sore shoulders.
We had been splashing and squelchingto and fro, I did not know how long, when an officer arrived.
I could feel the water squelching in my boots, and trickling down my back, as I kept steadily descending into the valley beyond the headland.
And, with the water squelching from my boots, I ran after him--no longer wasting my breath on shouting, but saving it all in my frenzied endeavour to catch him before it was too late.
As she did so, the familiar tentative cough of Shamira the bhisti on his rounds, accompanied by the squelching of his water-skin, made her step back into the screening wall.
She could hear his heavy seaboots squelchingthrough the mud, then the deep, grunting noise which always accompanied any of his movements.
Miles curtly, as the squelchingboots crossed the threshold.
