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• All these streams have been so designated from the hue of their waters--muddy, with a pronounced tinge of red: this from the ochreous earth through which they have coursed, holding it in suspension In the Texan Colorado there is nothing of this; on the contrary, it is a clear water stream. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
• [9 Rainy Season The rainy season usually thought by foreigners to be "wet, muddy, and disagreeable weather," so far from this, is the most agreeable season of the year. —  Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
• This river was wide and muddy, and had a strong current which carried much driftwood along with it. —  Discoverers and Explorers
• The road was terribly muddy, and the batteries which were trying to pass over the same route, were frequently stuck in the mire. —  Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
• What water we got was to be had only by digging in the arroyos which traversed the centre of each valley longitudinally; and although this water always was muddy, and had a strongly alkaline taste, it is the only thing that I remember with pleasure in all that weary laud. —  The Aztec Treasure-House

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