mud

• As I had already seen, trees fallen across the path formed a breast-high wall which had to be climbed over: flooded rivers, breast and neck deep, had to be crossed, the mud was awful, and nothing but villages eight or ten miles apart. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
• Chained by the foot to a wheel and lying in the mud was a Knight of the Order. —  VANCE MOORE
• I wish the thread on my son would just go away, so many people who didn't even know him or the real story behind his murder think dragging a dead man through the mud is the thing to do.
• It's like trying to convince a pig that wrestling in the mud is a bad time; what a pig considers to be fun is not necessarily what a human feels is fun, and thus its like two ships passing in the night. —  Techdirt
• However, as the mud is a depletable resource, they do some sort of recycling with it. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates

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