mud-flats

Afterward, they dragged a seine across the mud-flats and up on the sand, selecting for themselves only the larger kinds of fish.

CHAPTER XVI 2010

Sabre-Tooth, long-fanged and long-haired, was the chiefest peril to us of the squatting place, who crouched through the nights over our fires and by day increased the growing shell-bank beneath us by the clams we dug and devoured from the salt mud-flats beside us.

Chapter 21 2010

We were there at low-tide, and then 30 minutes later we saw waves lapping upward as the tide rose; I will have to look up videos or photos to make up for not seeing high-tide, which given the huge mud-flats, looks like it must be amazing to see as well.

Back from Nova Scota. da_lj 2009

We were there at low-tide, and then 30 minutes later we saw waves lapping upward as the tide rose; I will have to look up videos or photos to make up for not seeing high-tide, which given the huge mud-flats, looks like it must be amazing to see as well.

Back from Nova Scota. da_lj 2009

Your grandchildren, and you will have plenty, will be so proud of your climate change denial from their mud-flats in the (previous) tundra.

In Big Shocker, Palin Resigns As Governor 2010

Then we waited, and presently a travois was dragged up on the far bank, and Wootton and I and the invalid, with the Cheyenne guiding the way, crossed the ford and mud-flats, and the invalid took a look at the young Indian who was lying twitching on the travois, feebly clutching at his midriff.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Any chance I could move in there and off these damn mud-flats?

Where I live Elizabeth McClung 2008

Depression to me feels like being on low, shifting, slimy mud-flats in a wide river or estuary in the fog - you can't see the shore, you know where you are is unsafe but you can't see how to get to anywhere safer, and there are all these shifting shapes and odd, distorted noises... and lying down in that lovely, kind snow looks so much nicer!

Where I live Elizabeth McClung 2008

North-West, bombed by aeroplanes flying from the mud-flats of Rum

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The mud-flats were bone-dry and afforded perfect going.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003