And the lawmen noted nearby tread marks in the frozen mud from another car—presumably the assassin’s. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I cut the cape, then ripped it in two, and laid it under the wheel in the mud, then piled brush for the wheels to catch. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She is rolling in a lovely pool of mud with two other young elephants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The first level was built of river rocks held together by straw-filled mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I dug another foxhole, cutting down through ferns and rotted vegetation and tree roots and mud, the bottom of it would be filled with water by the time I finished. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way to the side, the mud sucking at their boots, where a small metal ladder covered in chipped green paint hung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His great paws sank even deeper into the mud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The mud oozes warm and soft between my toes, soothing my aching joints. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baby Girl done smeared mud and grass all across her front. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The prints are deep because they were made in soft mud, but now they're nearly dry in the hot sun. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though he was wet and numb with cold, he lovingly wiped mud and paw prints from his chrome spokes with bits of shredded Kleenex. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the older girls curled their hair just so every day, and they walked giggling in their skirts through the rain and mud as soldiers with guns stood in the watchtowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mud puddles scattered around the yard gave off steam like cauldrons coming to boil. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treads of the huge tyres in front were caked in and out with mud and manure and crushed straw. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I pull out my little dagger, grasp it fast and bury it in my hand once again under the mud. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road under their feet was slippery with spring mud, and the grass that brushed against their legs was wet with dew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lying faceup on the riverbank with water flowing over my feet and between my toes, I began to imagine that the Lazarus had swooped down and landed beside me on the mud. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The icy mud sent little thrills of pain up their legs, so they ran, splashing through the puddles and slushing in the mud. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Percy plucked a mud clod from his hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The SS officers laughed at them and hit them with clubs while the Jews scrambled in the mud for their dinner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene dusted herself down carefully, but the ground was wet and the mud had stuck to her clothes; her blue dress looked designed with chocolate-colored smudges. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think about it briefly as I open the box and look at half a mud cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The mud, covered by a shallow layer of liquid slime, seemed to try to grab them and pull them down with each step. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment my back was turned, the odors of swamp mud and decaying leaves drove out the tang of wood smoke, and darkness flowed in like a thunderclap. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He sighs and I realize he’ll never feel the thrill of breaking the surface, fist raised, mud dripping down his wrist. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants fire, and Dome sent her mud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A thin ribbon of thick water that lapped wearily at the mud banks on either side, sequined with the occasional silver slant of a dead fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the girl in the book step inside, trembling, her wet shoes leaving mud and bits of grass on the carpets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Neel didn’t mind—he loved the tang of salt on his tongue and the squish of mud between his toes. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was stirring, a movement of mud and dead leaves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, rain pooled where he had dug up mud beside him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, all he could think of was to retrieve the ndow from the mud. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her body smacked against the mud, sending it splattering into the air, all over me, all over Luis. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The team trooped out, trailing mud behind them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rising above the surface again, I feel the weeks’ mud dissolve and slide off my skin, my nails, the creases in my neck and toes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just the few hours since the storm broke, the parched road through our village had become a gushing stream of mud, blood-red, throbbing like an artery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing the same boots I wore yesterday, and they’re still splattered with mud from walking up and down Briar Hollow Lane. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Despite my washing efforts, my dress was still stiff with mud. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And with that, she heaved her lump of mud at him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she cupped her hands, her knucldes squished in the mud at the bottom of the stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were animal tracks in the mud surrounding a puddle in a tire rut. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And we were expected to endure an arctic winter in a mud hut? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It hopped and skittered toward him in the mud, then turned itself around and went forward. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was off below us a ways but climbing fast, its muscular tongues punching into the mud and propelling it up the ridge like a spider. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The fens grew more wet, opening into wide stagnant meres, among which it grew more and more difficult to find the firmer places where feet could tread without sinking into gurgling mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Inch by inch they moved through the swamp, looking for thickets of growth on which to place their feet, testing the suction when they were forced into the thick mud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

At one point, I find boot prints in the mud along the bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Our church was made of mud—mud walls, mud benches—but we loved going there and singing and dancing and praying. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a picnic down on the bank of the Kwilu, which has the delightful odor of mud and dead fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even over the stink of his labor, of the mud and the plaster and the rain that had wet him and then dried, he could smell Cari’s body. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had meant to fill that wide crack with thick mud and let it dry and harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone’s vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud pots. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He shifted his ground uneasily and felt himself slipping in the mud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clutched it and in one motion slammed his feet down into the mud and powered himself up. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He kicked off the mud and began to swim. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the band rode out of sight along the road a few fists were shaken, and some small boys hurled clumps of mud after the last horses’ hoofs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There was mud splattered all over the sides, all over the tinted windows, and even up on that center spotlight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel was drowning in mud, one hand on the bow, Percy’s hands around her ankles, deep in the darkness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Several of the boys came eagerly to the bank where the boat was wedged in the slick mud. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I dismounted to see a sluggish train of women and children and the occasional man, slogging through the mud in their best clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing one foot against the other, I remove the layers of red mud to expose my small, wrinkled toes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had also tried to cover up the spaces between the boards with mud and straw, but even so the wind would get through into the barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plaster had caked hard as the mud walls of the Lamb Men, and like those walls it cracked easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I packed my unwashed combat fatigues and sent them to my family with a note: Dear Parents, Here are my clothes, still stained with the sweat and mud and blood of Bougainville. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My rubber boots crunched into the slush and frozen mud. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ewalt was wearing work clothes; he had mud on his boots; he felt he wasn’t properly dressed to go calling on the Clutters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark blue and the mud bore a powdering of frost when Matt pulled himself from the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growth was thick here, and the ground turned to mud as if by an alchemist’s touch, but they managed to reach the top of the mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“That Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is plain as a mud fence.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain didn’t relent and Smith had no choice but to work the horse in the mud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sparks and flashes stop and Mr. Prentiss Jr. twitches in the mud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everything Chacho had mentioned—and more—was thrown at Matt like balls of sticky mud. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He measured the distance and height; they built the shapes from mud and let it harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were trucks and motor vehicles carving tracks in the road, which froze overnight and then turned to mud again during the day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This, for Frankie, was a declaration of war, and he grabbed his own handful of mud to throw at me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It turned the dust to mud, which caused horses to stagger and wagons to stall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We laughed at the unladylike ways we all sank into the mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned from Muff to pour a bottle of Coca-Cola into the soak tub to help loosen the mud, but it still took extra scrubbing before she even put the clothes through Muff’s washer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The geoducks raised their necks from the mud and aimed their lips at the sun. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knelt in the mud in the dark in the trash and cried. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The rain began falling again, first in the trees, then in the mud puddles, then, faintly, like a soothing murmur, on the tent top. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That night we had big chunks of it for dinner, rolled in cornmeal and deep-fried, its white flesh still tanged with the undertaste of mud that didn’t seem to bother anybody else. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We were so thirsty that we ate mud to force some moisture into our mouths, but it did not really help. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any normal kid would have used his or her knee to pull the leg up and out of the mud, but I had no left knee. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dad’s going to drag me to school, and my name will be mud for ratting them out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There I was shivering in the rain, surrounded on every side by mud huts, mud roads, mud everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rolling back down, the jeep turned over on its side and settled softly in the mud. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But there was no way the tracked vehicle was going to get through the mud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cooler air and stagnant water smelled of mud and rot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There is dirt and mud in La Saline, where, as I see now, no one has real houses, only packing crates and hammered-out tins and whatever else will keep a fam-ily somewhat dry and private. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He high-stepped through the pluff mud, the hem of his pants rolled up to his knees, fishing for treasures. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lazlo saw that hers were bare and that she was curling her toes into the pebbles and the soft mud beneath them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Just finish it,” I mumble into the mud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were seated on the mud, which now began to be disturbed by the angry, thin, returning sea, or else were already riding on the water, wakened by it, outside the annoyance of the surf. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They camped that night in a muddy field, sleeping on air mattresses resting on a thick bed of hay, which the tent crew had sprinkled on the oozing mud under the tents. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dirty bundle of rags and mud was trying to worm its way up the steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey knelt down into the chilly mud and picked them out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they kept going, into the slimy mire—past my wrists, past my forearms, stopping just as the mud reached my elbows. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was so close that Malcolm could smell his skin, which was redolent of mud, and fishes, and weeds. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over time, everything in the village had become the dull color of dried mud. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bottom foot dripped brown mud on them as they passed underneath, the barbed spikes mere inches above their heads. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man in the stalled motorboat was gone; the mud hens were gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck was spattered with mud, like he’d been trolling the swamps looking for me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t, because I figured she must have her reasons, like maybe—in my seven-year-old mind, this made sense—maybe she wanted some mud in the car for a change. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had turned half the compound yard to ankle-deep puddles and the rest to sucking mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Obadiah down on his knees in the mud, bent over the washed-up statue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would demand to see what was in his dispatch bag and after looking at the papers dump them in the mud. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other and laughed at the mud. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It stands at least the height of three men and looks to be made of stacked mud bricks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered with smudge and mud and goodness knows what else besides. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of Arthur and Erik accelerating, braking, and sliding through the mud on the perimeter road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came upon a capsized dinghy in the mud, mostly rotted, and barrels half-sunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was holding a garden trowel and his hands were black with mud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They would keep hurling mud at him until he suffocated under its weight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could turn anything—a stick, a handful of mud, a shred of clothing—into a weapon. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There, they sell the sawdust to families, who use it as kindling or to dry mud around their houses. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a ratty beige sweatshirt streaked with mud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sun was warm on my shoulders, birds twittered and there was that spring smell of mud and grass in the air. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally noticed the other rangers were cleaning their boots and uniforms, searching for any trace of the flowers among the mud and foam. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The front of his body was covered with mud, but he managed to slither forward. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She applied another coating of termite mud, turned the boat over, and winced when she saw the damage caused by the spur of rock. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most just stood there and screamed, and screamed, and screamed, the rain falling all around, the mud sucking their feet down firmly in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom he scrubbed the mud from his hands, washed his face, and put on the blue shirt Naomi had made for him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

With sons I would have known what to do: frog catching, fishing, war strategies, running around in the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur's truck has a big spotlight mounted on top, at the center of the windshield, so he can go mud running at night. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed for rain, but the sun kept beating down, turning the puddles into mud. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It rained all day, soaking the men and turning the fort into a sea of mud. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

With so much moisture in the air and loose dirt from both tectonic upheavals and the new species of flora tearing up the topsoil, it was like thin mud being thrown constantly in your face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was made of logs and mud and time, mostly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

You’ll crawl into bed one night and find your sheets filled with centipedes and mud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The damp dirt turns quickly to mud and the remainder of the burial is hastened to accommodate the weather. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

March meant rain, which meant mud, which meant it took twice as long to get Henry’s work clothes clean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels spun round throwing brush and mud. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He felt the cool mud about his toes as he paddled in the Pool at Bywater with Jolly Cotton and Tom and Nibs, and their sister Rosie. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lumumba kneels in the mud to add the force of his own shoulder to the back bumper. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ned began to drag himself through the mud, gritting his teeth at the agony in his leg. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, every child in the village had gathered around and was jumping in the mud of the riverbank. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning a slow trickle of rusty red liquid came out of the communal faucet—it smelled of mud and left a residue on your skin rather than cleaned it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was a sight to see, nothing but mud from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside and on the way home, the people played in their magic, as children poke in mud pies, reluctant to tell themselves that the game was over. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make her walk through it, though the cold water and sucking mud slows us down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We slogged through mud to a rear entrance, showed our I.D.’s, passed through another metal detector, and then marched down a long gray corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called this hill Three Steps to Heaven, but it was really just centuries of hardened layers of mud washed up by the Fen River. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights before, I had mixed up some Missouri River mud. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“It keeps the mud off my shoes,” he muttered, turning a page in his book. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Their clothing was stained with mud and blood, and in the torchlight it was hard to make out all their badges and sigils, but some of those Arya glimpsed she recognized. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They fought with blunted weapons in a chaos of mud and blood, small troops fighting together and then turning on each other as alliances formed and fractured, until only one man was left standing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another craft had dragged its anchor and gone ashore on a mud bank. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the sled Laura could see their footprints, and every footprint had gone through the thin snow into the mud. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes seem like real dusty leather, worn and creased for years and years with a rimmed hat and boots for ignoring mud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Amari returned a couple of hours later, her feet were covered with mud. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe certainly had a way of making everything as clear as mud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when Chandra was out of the room, I hunted until I found a loose mud brick in the wall. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the time came to pull he slid his hand down as far as he could so that the side of his face lay against the mud, turned toward Hatsue’s knee. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They could knock our players flying—Maya, Tino, Henry D., Hernando—all of them were flying through the mud at one time or another. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Leah tossed him the tie rope and helped him push the boat out of the shallow mud into deeper water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was camouflaged in thick mud and clusters of wildflowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A lump of mud stuck in my throat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wagon is broken in the mud, the oxen would not move, the soldiers needed Pa to help them fix the wagon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What seemed important to us about the rain was that the next morning after it fell, Papa came riding home through the mud. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud in the roads actually seemed to flow with currents, as in the rivers and streams, but when it hardened it would be worse than cement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had melted and the mud had firmed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The weather was getting colder and wetter, the nights darker, but no amount of mud, wind, or rain could tarnish Harry’s wonderful vision of finally winning the huge, silver Quidditch Cup. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The stream bank is mud, muck, loose sand, and pebbles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he said the items, starting with girl and working back to cockroach, and I swear he looked just like a great big baby that had just made a superduper mud pie. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Why, whatever has he done to you, my sweet?" she asked, and mopped the mud from his face with her apron and called him all manner of endearments. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

First, there had been the ones who tracked mud across his floors and slammed his doors, so that the whole of him vibrated uncomfortably. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then it was no longer Blackavar who was crouching in front of him but Woundwort, drenched in mud and rain, glaring and scrabbling in the silt with his great claws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A savage storm blew across the prairie and turned the streets into rivers of mud, so the private detective didn’t arrive in Ponca City until dark, only to discover that Brown wasn’t there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Joey stopped the car, right there in the middle of the river of mud that used to be a road. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mud was nice between her toes, and she liked to feel the earth underfoot when she walked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wall of wood and mud allowed only a trickle of water to pass through, and it had turned a narrow stream into the wide pond that many animals now called home. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the lightning flashed and the thunder cracked, I, the unsung quarterback of an unsung team, rose up out of that mud not once, but twice, to achieve football immortality. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. If you told me a story like this, I probably wouldn’t believe it either, but like you said, this mud came from somewhere.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was soon wading oftener than he was walking, but the thick, soft mud felt good to his feet, and he wandered aimlessly on, trying to make himself believe that his suspicions were unfounded. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The road was all a turmoil of mud and snow marked with dozens of hoofprints. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chapan had mud smudges down the front and his shirt was ripped just below the collar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the mud about the spring were thousands of quail tracks. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rolled in the mud together, Otto grunting as the breath was pressed out of him when we slammed into a trunk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

By my side, Sam wears shoes covered in mud and a grass-stained work polo. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I knew how she must have looked when she was young, tall and handsome, going round to the stables at Manderley with sugar in her pockets, holding her trailing skirt out of the mud. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had about as much interest in the plants and flowers as she did in a mud puddle on the side of a street. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the Nazi search party arrived and we spent an hour lying in the mud along the riverbank, hiding in the bulrushes like Moses, waiting for them to leave. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mammachi’s rage at the old one-eyed Paravan standing in the rain, drunk, dribbling and covered in mud was re-directed into a cold contempt for her daughter and what she had done. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost one of my shoes in the mud, and failed to care. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the door swung open, a scissor of daylight fell on to the concrete floor, showing clumps of trodden-down straw, and mud. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The tide was coming in and the mud flat had shrunk to the width of a path. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

To take his mind off the thing, Francie took him down into the yard and they made mud pies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the warm unconsciousness finally crept over her, she was thinking with some irritation of how her white lawn shroud would have mud down the front when they pulled her out in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of dirt, mud, grime—much of it from Todd moving things upstairs and rushing in and out of the house—but the damage could have been far worse. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He stumbled backwards down the kitchen steps and lay sprawled in the wet mud. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes had been washed and ironed, my shoes wiped clean of mud and muck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the villagers leaned against their round mud huts and others sat on the ground or on mortars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones’s gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The mud oozed and adjusted itself to my shoulder blades. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lost tears were pounded to mud and then to dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of them from the farm below him got loose this spring and made a mud hole of his garden. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be cold tonight. The mud and snow will freeze.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the gaslights dimmed and the hallway windows cranked open, a swampish heat encased us like mud. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her head rolled back, and I saw that her mouth was partially open and her teeth were rimmed with mud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the attack starts I will let myself fall into the water, with my face as deep in the mud as I can keep it without suffocating. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sometimes kept our Wellingtons on the whole day, leaving trails of mud and damp through the rooms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PSF hit the ground the exact same moment the girl was tackled into the mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I love the slimy texture, getting greasy up to my elbows. Like playing in the mud. We’ll have delicious pies afterwards.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His hair was tangled with leaves, his sweatshirt streaked in mud, and his nose reddened with what promised to be a full-faced sunburn by the end of the day. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On rainy evenings, when a student woke up in the middle of the night, no one wanted to trudge through the grass and mud to the outhouse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His armor is spattered with blood and mud, like mine, but he seems different. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the boys had stopped kicking the ball about, and were standing in a pack in the mud, their chests gently rising and falling as they waited for the team picking to start. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Better than yesterday. This is an enormous improvement over the mud," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had left Rufus lying in the mud,” I said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our house here is mud and thatch, plenty large, with two rooms and a kitchen shed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go out back and stick your heads in the mud! You—Bertha—it might improve your looks!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me about the day the cardinal died, about finding the body on the back deck, about burying him in the mud nest. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the wind was brisk and mean and they had hours in the dark and mud before the return to the Anatomy House. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Eighteen inches down I felt the soft mud. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a flash of lightning, through the mud- spattered rear windshield, I saw a figure lumbering toward us on the shoulder of the road. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Any hotels or something where we could clean off? I mean... hotels that accept mud people?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bigger boys tossed wet dirt balls at each other, while the younger ones made mud snakes and threw them at the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The mud stuck to their feet like glue and each seedling had to be painstakingly planted by hand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My foot slipped on mud as I chucked another pebble at Fred’s house. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On the big potholes or in the deep mud, we would kind of sway side to side Those fellas was used to it, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her back I went around in front of her the rain creeping into the mud flatting her bodice through her dress it smelled horrible. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked close to the arroyo bank to avoid the manure and mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining Earthborn threw barrage after barrage of stone and mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He remembered sinking into the cold Alaskan bog—black mud covering his eyes, mouth, and nose. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was inspecting his toes for mud, his face sleepy and peaceful, his white whiskers glistening with ice crystals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Snow blew through a crack in the mud, falling on their hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When Jiichan reached the other side, he began to push his own peg into the mud, pulling the twine taut. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I stumbled after him, the mud grew even deeper still. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They made a big panful of mud, and plastered him all over with it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nor Tully red, the mud red of the river. That's blood up there, child, smeared across the sky." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bark and reeds, mud and leaves, twigs and stones. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“We need your help. Our ox wagon is stuck in the mud a few kilometers away. We need you to help us drag it out.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she know I might have to walk into the mud and spoil them? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was Lisa Greenbaum—in my grade, but not in my class—and Ari Marks, who played kickball every day at recess and was always in trouble for tracking mud inside. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As I wake up out of my months-long sleep, I find the course of my life has narrowed right down, and I feel myself rushing along it like a flood of rich, red mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool Jay, acting like a kid, with mud pies. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I slipped in the mud and went straight down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around them, the forest was waking up after the few short hours of rest; soon they would have more than the mud to worry about. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He saw he was trapped in deep icy mud. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Melting snow sank into the dirt roads, turning them to sticky black mud. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And out the demons came—from every cave and crevice, through every fissure and crack, from under the rocks and up from the mud, stomping and shuffling, slithering and sliding, through the murky shadows. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scim in his hand tips into the mud as he peers down at the blade emerging from his chest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although the road was full of mud, the fields were drying and the birds were singing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once last year she’d found a fine boy’s shirt that had been used as a rag to wipe mud from a tourist car and thrown away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I ask, because the mud is still sucking me down. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, over a watercolor of Venice, nostalgia would transform the smell of mud and putrefying shellfish of the canals into the warm aroma of flowers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A series of hard frosts had killed the crops they’d planted afterward, leaving only mud and ash and wilted, rotting stalks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them even took her beyond the castle walls, out into the mud and madness of the camp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wiped it down, making sure to remove clods of dried mud and clumps of grass from the undercarriage and chipping the dried dirt off the pictures of the rabbit and the turtle. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his fancy red hat was flecked with mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried facials and mud masks at every sleepover, and took great joy in photographing ourselves covered in zit medicine. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The red mud dried on his khakis like the blood of a slain beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time before our entire mud hut was crawling with them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo helped her with a lever, and the enormous swollen body gave a turn like a bell and was dragged away by the torrent of liquid mud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The wavelets broke across our feet, and he was in the mud at my side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It resembled the beaver lodge, but it was larger, a great dome of wood and mud and leaves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Woke with my mind filled with mud, my thoughts too dirty and slow to come clear. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the door flies open, I tumble out of the guardhouse and land on a patch of earth that's more mud than grass. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he shook, spraying mud and water in all directions, Mormont said nothing, but on his shoulder the raven screeched. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a sow, not a boar, and under a patina of mud it was the pink of a domestic pig, not the brown bristle of a wild one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were smears of river mud on his bare knees and his shenti, and on the gnarled hand with which he held the reeds aside as he gazed with mild astonishment at the boy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and fresh and tastes faintly of mud. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The encrusted mud he had applied as balm had fallen away. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The wooden gate in the mud wall behind the house creaked open and Aniekwena came into the compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the snow began to melt, the ground around their base became so thick with mud and slush that supply trucks couldn’t get through to them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she imagined the bunker itself collapsing, squashing them all into mud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jonah got to see how the vehicle performed in off-road mud puddles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Guns fire and bullets stick in the mud next to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had been gored lay face down in the trampled mud. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

One day she came back grinning her horsey grin, her hair all tangled and her clothes covered in mud, clutching a raggedy bunch of purple and green flowers for Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The mud is thick and hard to use. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Against the walls in the place were hard wooden benches that rocked on the uneven mud floor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie couldn’t help but laugh, remembering the sight of those sweating, swearing, filthy gentlemen, and now they were further poisoning the already stale air of the carriage with their odor and road mud. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He ran ahead and leapt over the mud puddle. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Even the mud was icing up about the edges, Theon saw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I just want to keep sinking into the mud until I disappear forever. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But this takes a lot longer than I would like: we are a far cry from picket fences and white curtains, here in our lagoon of postwar mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turner set down his rake, sat beside her in the mud, and took her hand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It would never do to appear for his first working meal dressed in mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I put my thumb on the mouth of the pipe, sucked air — blew out, and all this while the glass is getting colder duller orange blood red mud red black. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was covered in mud but dressed fancy in breeches and an old coat and I figured he must have been a gentleman’s valet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shrine was a low, open shed, its mud roof and walls covered with dried palm fronds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But probably it was only that carpets and couches and curtains just didn’t make the right atmosphere for a game about hidden splendors and giant mysteries, in a land of mud and sand. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand years later, the canals were choked with reeds and mud, and pools of stagnant water gave birth to swarms of flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She quickly put it back, pushing her hands deep into the mud. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pushed off the mucky bottom, hand sinking deep into silky mud, and came back to standing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her fur was matted with mud, leaves, pizza slices, and dried monster blood. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My legs hit the soft mud of the bottom, and immediately I was on the surface being congratulated. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his coat, using a brush to clean the dried mud from it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Uncle and Jedda-Boy took a couple of surveying instruments and discussed mud and sand and other important surveying matters. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The prince glared back at Jemmy, and then stooped down to retrieve the broken leg of a chair from the mud. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he nears us, I see his shoulders heavily hunched over and his feet drag as if he is trudging through mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bits of mud and stone had fallen off, and one of its ears had chipped. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turn into the unpaved road, hoping we won’t get stuck in the mud I hear slapping against the underside of the car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years ago he was the manager of a mud show: a ragtag group of pellagra-riddled performers dragged from town to town by miserable thrush-hoofed horses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

From the hole where the tree had once held on to the earth came the sound of deep movement, maybe just the mud shifting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The road crossed a dried slough where pipes of ice stood out of the frozen mud like formations in a cave. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the spring they appear around the corner of the house in their baggy gardening pants, smudged with mud, to see me off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few kids, all strangers, called after me in concern, but I ignored them, following the smell of mud and molding leaves until I found the lake we had passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The mud was impeding him too, because one time, when he kicked out, he slipped and fell out of view into the blackness. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rub it off like a splatter of mud? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We were never able to catch up with him because there were miles of saw grass and knee-deep mud between us. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They padded silent through the dens the men had built of wood and grass and mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I crawl now, through the mud, dragging myself toward the scent. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re getting dried-up old mud on the carpet. Just like the kids.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wind drove down the rain and every-where there was standing water and mud. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A boy and girl continued their fight over a pretend feast of mud. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I went out and stepped through the mud to the clear running water and when I had washed I felt better. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, I just sprained it when I tried to ride my bike in the mud. I was trying to get ready for the first motocross race this spring.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the swamp we ran past people who were stuck in the mud, past handicapped people who couldn’t be helped, for anyone who stopped to do so was risking his own life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He ran his hand through his hair and looked down at the mud. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I go out early and stand on the top of the middle mud mountain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spurred his gelding and rode out into the river, but the horse struggled in the soft mud and beyond the reeds the water deepened. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I went past the rosebushes to Baba’s mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he’d lived his entire life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a half-hour walk to a hut made of mud and sticks, a cook shack with a fireplace, and a field of millet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She plucked the seedling neatly into the mud, and it stood straight up like it had been growing there all along! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just before reaching the top, his claws slipped in the icy mud. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began by smearing handfuls of thick mud over her entire body. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At last, they had to resort to making a Set themselves, from some clayey mud from the Casa Rosada’s dead flower garden. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fullback hit him with a forearm to the shoulder that sent him sprawling forward, sliding through the mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hefted another clod of mud at him, menacingly, but did not throw it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The night smelled of dampness, mud, and smoke from the small house’s chimney. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I hunched upon the mud and observed that the transports did not appear like to come for us, the water erupting so frequently with the plumes of detonation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They passed the last streetlight on the very edge of Salinas, and blackness lay ahead of them and the road was unpaved and sticky with black ’dobe mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wished I could have gone over and helped her up, cleaned the red mud from her wrapper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d come there to drink and to wallow around in the potholes of soft cool mud. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look like I fought a grizzly bear in the mud. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Percy had tried rolling in mud, splashing through creeks, even keeping air-freshener sticks in his pockets so he’d have that new car smell; but apparently demigod stink was hard to mask. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I step over wood, mud, branches, sticks, carefully. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mud was caused by heavy snowfall overnight that completely melted during the day, and it was the wettest and muddiest rasputitsa in living memory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the side and stood as much as he could in the mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The horse will never be able to haul those rocks through the mud,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She’s always leaving me messages, usually not on paper but in the mud, written in pine needles, or scratched on a leaf. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the fair’s fifty-seven miles of roadway were still either submerged or coated with mud, and others had been gouged and trenched by vehicles that had used the roads while they were still sodden. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It splashes in the mud and I’m still on my belly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She starts sweeping up the glitter, but I can feel her watching me as I rub the rest of the mud from Lolo’s elbows and hands. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was thick graveyard mud clinging to her shoes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She wore glasses perched just at the tip of her nose, and she glared over them at me like I’d tracked mud on her new carpet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe so, but right then Joe felt like a lint-headed fool, crazier than she and just as wild as he slipped into mud, tripped over black roots, scuffed through patches of dirt crawling with termites. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We held hands because it seemed the right thing to do, circled around as the ground became mud and the rain fell harder, cascading down our faces, into our mouths. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He scraped the mud from his boots with his pocketknife. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She hated the feeling of thick, soggy mud on her hands and face; and many times she wanted to stop in irritation and exhaustion. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her down there sitting on the mud, but it still don’t figure, what to do next. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gather up from the mud the pieces of burned, striped cloth, the shreds of his pajamas, then bring him down, the poor pale boy, and make a decent burial. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had been headed for it since they had patted mud balls together as toddlers in the backyard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stinks of roots and mud and ugly herbs but I’m so tired I let her tie it round my forehead, right over the bandage that’s still stuck on the side of my head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His hands were wet and covered in mud. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was unbroken, although the crystal was stained and smeared with mud and the blood from what the cliff-ghasts had been eating before they found it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When everybody was lined up on their faces in the mud like sardines, one of the guards shot six of them in the head. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He found himself choking in mud, unable to move or see or breathe. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Homer dropped her filthy shift into the gutter, the brown of the dried blood seeping into the mud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She is wearing her Wellies and her gardening smock, which is smudged with mud. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up the wet, winding boardwalks and through stretches of mud that cake my hiking boots in sludge. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

You hurried silently along the river bottom, stung by mosquitoes, hooted by owls, zoomed by bats, buzzed by snakes that rattled among the rocks, mud and fever, darkness and sighing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were boots and mud in my face as a guy shifted position. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being timid and young, they prefer a bottom on which there are many caves and little crevices and lumps of mud where they may hide from predators and protect themselves from the waves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt under her feet turned to mud, then sludge, until at last she was ankle-deep in water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know when my toes have ever been so cold, standing in icy mud, mid-November, in wooden clogs—thought so much of Jamie floating in the North Sea. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in mud clutching my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lucas asked, looking down at my mostly naked body lying half in the mud and half in the river. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Taylor scooped up seawater in a large shell and poured it over the ends of her hair, rinsing out the mud. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He hoped he’d gotten all the garden mud off of his uniform. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The increasing rain pulls stray feathers from her wings and pins them to the mud below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat on the ground, his feet bare, his linsey-woolsey blouse veined with dirt, his dark face caked with mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the waters receded, there were chest-high watermarks; our desks and chairs were covered with thick, foul-smelling mud. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The shoes in the corner were all old-fashioned black or brown leather, except for one pair made from canvas and covered in dried mud. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Immediately kids started screaming and vaulting over the handrails, landing in the ankle-deep mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face she lifted to the woman was even sorrier than she realized, streaked with mud and tears. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The eruption had shattered the mountain, and now a fifty-mile-wide avalanche of rock and mud and melted ice was taking aim at the valley below. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she finally fell asleep, she slept deeply, and waking up was like dragging herself through mud. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I find this old telephone all clotted with mud. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She offers me mud cake after a while. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but the creaking of the wagon as it floundered through the sour-smelling mud and over mammoth tree roots. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until then, too late, that I saw my new clothes— and the spots of bloods, flecks of fish scales, bits of feather and mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped a piece of raw meat in the mud between two men and told them to fight for it, and they did. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And you!” he said, addressing the Jewish men, their cloaks covered in mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was not far advanced into the spring, and the narrow streets were thick with mud, puddles bright in ruts near heaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her face hit the water, and she scrambled up and back, gasping for air as she tried to claw her way out of the mud. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I slap handfuls of mud on the warm cement. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Through the mud, down the hill, away from this farm, away from my mom, away from everything and everyone. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“It is better certainly than putting money into a mud wall. But why not a piece of your uncle’s land? He is clamoring to sell that strip near to the western field we now have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered seeing a crocodile once in a mud hole near the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It landed by the water trough, and I bad to wade through the mud to get it back. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Steam rose off the hot pools, fragrant with the smell of moss and mud and decay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sticking up above the top of the hearse, the coachman’s hard leather hat looked as if it had been molded out of the same black mud. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hoped it was the crust of mud on my shoes which made her glare at me as I passed by her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But to Tendai, all the animals looked the same, except for Clay Belly, who was covered with mud. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt and mud and bits of rock rained down. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked out the long spit of tidal mud where a small boat lay half buried and stood there looking at it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In betwixt me and the brazier, dandelions grew in the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the mud on his legs, he roared in anger and asked Hyena why he had behaved in so selfish a manner. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with soaking in mud and rubbing with ashes, but her rabbit skins smelled vile when she was finished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the rain pours over us, washing away the dirt and mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the way, they passed mud houses with thatched roofs and fields dotted with bundles of wheat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Snow and mud lay thick on the earth, and rogue snowflakes drifted through the night sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Man, they can hardly get him loose, the way he's stuck deep in that mud, and before they drag him to shore they're all covered with slime and mud. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The animal has another original use for its urine: in hot, dry weather it will cool itself by relieving its bladder on the ground and stirring up a refreshing mud bath with its paws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked and saw the entire portable being swallowed up by the mud, its roof now where its porch steps should be. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to get up, but before I could, the fullback stretched out my goggles from my face, scooped up a handful of mud, and smeared it in my eyes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the other boys run around in the mud; large extra feet of clay stick to the soles of their boots, leaving tracks like monsters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walked along in silence the rest of the evening, the only sounds the crunch of the frozen mud beneath our feet and the cracks of the kapos’ whips. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Set’s altar was made from an egg crate covered by a piece of an old bedspread, and the god himself was a rather pear-shaped figure of dried mud. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the birds cooked, bits of steam broke through tiny cracks in the mud and scented the air with a delicious fragrance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I put down the fleece and grabbed a handful of mud from the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Caked with filthy mud and trailing broken spears, they dashed off along the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She got dirt in her mouth but she didn't care, the taste was fine, the taste was mud and water and worms and life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some people could look at a mud- puddle and see an ocean with ships. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My long tramp through the mud left me tuckered out and just too worldly-wise to go along with the teen scene. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain might have stopped, but the compound was still a morass of shallow lakes and slippery mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And so Bono and I, Clippinger and Olakunde lay that night in the mud of the marsh, flies thick upon our heads, roots around our fingers, guns lain in leaves upon the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“When something heavy makes an impression on something light—or soft. Like when you step in mud or wet cement and leave a footprint.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Not covered in cuts and bruises and mud like we were, but in decent clothes and shoes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her name is mud not just around here, but thanks to ReelTok, all over the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They watched silently as the undertaker inched through the field between the road and the house, his tires sinking into puddles of red mud. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Huts made of tree trunks and mud and bristles of pine needles. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Four miles after leaving Cloud Pond, I came to a tiny stream, barely worthy of the term—really just a slick of moist mud. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Covered from head to toe in slimy black mud, his left arm in a sling fashioned from an Executive’s blood-stained tunic, Milligan—wonder of wonders!—was grinning at Kate with joyous eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

This road was no longer dirt and mud, but laid out in stone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I held my bundle closer to my chest as I plodded through the mud, which sucked at my rubber sandals. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot mud would have tasted better, but he was so pleased with himself, I forced myself to drink it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was not only shut, but locked, and yesterday’s mud still adorned the steps. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few walked barefooted over the icy cobblestones, flinching when hit square with mud or a rock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have mud on their shoes, and lint on their clothes, and their hair falls out without their even knowing it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, long after midnight, with his shoes covered in mud, she knew he would not be the same again. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If the ocean floors were ancient, as everyone assumed, they should be thickly blanketed with sediments, like the mud on the bottom of a river or lake. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Clancy, who apparently had never been taught about respecting someone’s personal space, took a step forward, and I took a step back, off the porch, my feet sinking into the sticky mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward and spat on the ground, making a small puddle of dusty mud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I heard a scream and saw the limp body of a child heaved out into the mud. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a rage in his brain, a bloody cloudy area like mud stirred in a pool. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His feet were cracked and caked in dried mud; he had fought without shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow the ones on the right side always found the scar beneath the mud quickly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But then our rug isn’t very nice, so maybe they aren’t embarrassed when they get mud all over it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Taylor sat before the sculpture on her haunches, swiping mud across her cheeks in long, thick streaks. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My father says I lean on broken reeds and will get a face full of swamp mud one day. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In that freshwater lake, fish with long whiskers swam down deep and close to the mud. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud is up over my knees, and I'm locked in place. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

There the thick mud had dried to a dark, flaky crust like an old scab, and a layer of leaves covered the ground like a raggedy Band-Aid. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In short, everything that had been dust in Milagro turned into mud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little calves reminded Tayo of new shoes, bright white with light brown speckles, silky and untouched by mud and sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once at the Fourth of July picnic they had tug-of-war, and the losing side got pulled into a puddle, which looked pretty funny unless it was you in the mud. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There are the angels, and there are men, who Allah made from mud, and then there are the people of the fire, the jinn,” says Salim. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A dark and restless sky still moved overhead, but where was the hard ground, the wet, the mud, the dead birds? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After I was done, I placed my hands on the heap of mud and quietly wept. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’d video her doing something silly like riding her bike or baking a mud pie or something, but it always felt so vital to me. Like I was recording a piece of history.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The other boys of his village liked to mud wrestle. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Deftly, with a delicacy surprising in such a big man, he began to scrape away the black leaves and dried blue mud from Drogo's chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I peeled off mud and clothes together and changed to new finery, which got muddy in the process. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the mud for a moment, then faced me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in the mud on the side of the embankment, his feet pointing downhill, breathing blood irregularly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One shouted to Alby, a short, skinny kid drenched in mud. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On this particular June Sunday they rode up through the lanes between the drystone walls that Beryl’s laboring ancestors had built, and over the top of Highdown Rise, with mud up their bare shins. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then he moved in slow motion and plunked the seedling into the mud. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The same delicious mud that’s salvation to manioc is the Waterloo of an automobile. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I see now you could be an excellent mud wrestler." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And he drove on out of the bells and out of town, thinking of himself slogging through the mud, hunting a team. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I waded into the stream that comes from the spring and began to stack logs, stones, and mud where I had planned the dam the day our folks left. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted of summer and mud and growing things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The interior was dark and leaky, with a mud floor like chocolate pudding, a cramped and filthy sleeping platform, and scraps of wet litter everywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The thatch had been ripped from some, where others stood there was now only a heap of mud with their owners’ possessions studding them in a kind of pitiless decoration. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wex drove his heel into the mud, and pivoted his foot this way and that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The challenge was not to cry, for tears would run down my cheeks in tiny rivers, preventing the mud from drying well and giving it a bumpy texture. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on me—that wasn’t mud at all. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The checkered tile floor became slick with rain and mud, and it took all of my concentration not to slip. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It moved across his hands as they lay motionless in the mud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My boot squished in mud with every step and my breath puffed out in white clouds before me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the last sluice of lemonade slipped out of the cooler, a slick of mud poured out. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

One of Craster's women was backed up against the mud- spattered wall of the keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They seemed lost in their own little world of mud, pebbles and tins, and oblivious to my suicide attempt. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cinch to find the ancient palace because it was surrounded by huge red mud walls and had a very grand entryway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her own now, Hanako delicately placed a seedling into the mud and was surprised that it stood straight up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The air felt suddenly heavy, like she was breathing mud. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Silly,” Camilla was whispering—and I caught a glimpse of ragged, fluttering cloth, streaked with mud—“you took the wrong ones. We can’t bring them back like this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tree leaves, coated with mud shells, fell off their branches, landing with audible thuds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Clarisse and her friends were sprawled in the mud, and a bunch of other campers had gathered around to gawk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If only his mother could see him now, spraying mud on the Mud People. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When the sweat mixed with the mud it was hard to tell. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cart-tracks were full of water too, long lines crisscrossing with mud flung up on either side of the trenches. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan pulled Theon away from the northmen praying before the tree, to a secluded spot back by the barracks wall, beside a pool of warm mud that stank of rotten eggs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jemmy watched the prince slowly raise himself off the mud flat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s here that you should hold so tight to it but pine and mud and foes? We have our ships. Sail away with me, and we’ll make new lives upon the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even more sunburned, covered in mud, or trying to scratch patches of bug bites with their free hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ma and Aunt Polly covered his whole face with mud and tied the mud on with cloths. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who will wear high boots tie sand bags round the tops so that the mud does not pour in so fast. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud was almost up to her shoulders now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone on earth but me—and now Violet—moves in slow motion, like they’re filled with mud. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street I saw a blue-and-white cardboard box in the mud, and for a second it looked like the same nutrition bars I’d found in the minimall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought again about his precious shirt, but he was too far away for me to see if he’d got much mud on it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to sound a proper peasant, say it as if you had mud in your mouth, or were too stupid to realize it was two words, not just one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But when I was down in the mud, I remembered that line from Ella’s prophecy—about the son of Neptune drowning. I thought. ‘This is what it means. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But if the road got wet, we’d soon be two feet deep in red mud instead of dust. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once we cleared the weeds, we broke mud clods with short hoes and shovels. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She clenches her jaw and stomps out into the mud. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We still need the bridges because the mud beneath them is too wet to walk on. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The red dust from the road and the sweat on my body has mixed to create a layer of mud on my skin making it dry and itchy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t done anything to me, and the smutch of the mud against her blue gown — the prettiest dress I ever saw. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvetsoft, diamond-gem beauty parlor! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went about three meters, hit a patch of mud, and went sliding into some crates of ammo. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lower your voice this minute, Neel. And both of you, take off your sandals. It’s hard enough to keep this hut clean without the two of you dragging mud and dirt in here.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled his shoe out of the mud for him and tried to clean it off on the cordgrass. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and thirty miles of wilderness had been burned, ripped apart, or buried under a hundred feet of mud and debris. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“With some mud, to keep ’em from drying out,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing but fine dust and mud between us, I slid right over to them—right into Liam’s outstretched hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The rain began about an hour later, gentle at first, then hard enough to rinse off the mud and chill the children as well. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The touch of the iron hilt seemed to unstick her feet from the floor at last, and she moved through what felt like thick mud toward the monstrous child. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In his hooded poncho, everything caked with mud, the boy’s face was impossible to make out. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotels were jumping on each other, and there was bumff from like the casinos and mud slides and the gift shops and places where you could rent extra arms. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice was one I didn’t know, and it sounded like speaking was hard for it, like trying to walk through the knee-high mud in the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I ventured farther from the shore, but my left leg sank deep into the mud, well beyond where my ankle would have been. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Florida cupped the worm and set it back in the mud. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a switchblade out of his back pocket, and for a second I thought he was going to gut me, but he just scraped the mud off the sole of his sandal. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The houses we passed were more battered than many of those in Cange—dirt floors and roofs of banana fronds that leaked in the rainy season, turning floors to mud. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On one side of it is an enormous hole in the ground, with large mud piles heaped around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers and face were soiled with black mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They raised it with sun-dried bricks and plastered it with mud and handfuls of straw. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Peeta genuinely seems to enjoy this station, swirling a combination of mud and clay and berry juices around on his pale skin, weaving disguises from vines and leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was under the mud and water, folded in with the war, and their only thought was to find him and dig him out and then move on to someplace dry and warm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I withstood the urge to scratch my increasingly prickly rash, and instead dug some soft mud from the riverbed and wiped it on my ankles and wrists. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt onto the mud floor, right in front of the snake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

As Seven and Valley struggled in the mud, Thorn scrambled around, trying to find another vine to throw to them—but there was nothing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The master put the wagons and carriages in the shed and set Willie to cleaning the mud off wheels and undercarriages, and the sleds were brought out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She lolloped up the bank, spraying mud and water on all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His first night on the highway, Bob slept in the icy mud of the ditch. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When the plane returned from its mission, it would land in the mud, get pushed back to the platform, and the whole process would begin again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In fact our shoes filled with mud and our clothes turned to slime, and it was the farthest thing from pleasant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud is up around my knees and it's real hard to turn around. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes glared, and dark rings circled them, like he had smeared mud there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Arthur has a white Toyota Land Cruiser that he’s jacked up and put big tires on for “mud run- nin.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took off their jackets and tried to scrape off the mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The pasture’s nothing but mud, so you can’t tell a footprint from a mud puddle, but they found fabric from a shirt caught in the wire. They’re saying it was the Gantrys that killed them.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She touches Ma’s cheeks and ears, and grabs her hair to try to lift her face out of the mud, but she is not strong enough. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scooped up a handful of mud and water in trembling hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nguyen carried the water back in a plastic pail and let the mud settle out so she could boil it and wash her sister’s eyelids. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was scraping at the mud on her bare legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Anyway, my great-grandfather got this mud from the bottom of the river sixty-four years ago. Next to my Conestoga wagon, it’s the best thing I have.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Stooping, he gathered a handful of the leaves and crushed them with a little mud in the palm of one hand. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some are shiny brown like mud in the rain. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Rose,” I say, sliding under the bottom and wiggling my way down to where the keel sits in the mud. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He frowned and kicked at a stone poking up from the half- frozen mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water that filled the hole was filthy, more mud than liquid. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thatched roof had been layered with mud to keep the inside as dry as possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Daddy follows and I cringe at the fine line of mud on the back of his shoe. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Matty climbed back down the bank, scooped wet mud with his hands, and gently coated her feet and legs, stopping the bleeding and trying to ease her pain with the thick cool paste. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She jumped back and lifted her dress up, foot slipping on the mud near the water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My feet sink into the mud at the grave site. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She motors downfield so fast she creates a wake of flowing mud that washes over anyone who gets in her way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blade is covered with mud right up to his neck, which on him looks natural. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The van’s back tires spun against the mud as he threw it into reverse. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why the Princess is going to be driven past these mud mountains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sobbed as I lay on the pillow, my hair a mass of mud and silt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m trying not to think about that news report, Megan’s body being dragged out of the mud. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur and Erik had quit their mud running and driven around from the perimeter road to our driveway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smear of light mud shaped like a handprint had dried on the side of the black leather, stopping where the wide splash of blue paint covered the top. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Aristotle declared that most insects did not come from other insects, but from dew, dung, dead animals, or mud. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Valley was wiping the mud from her coat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The snows began to melt, and the wet mud that was exposed was thick and heavy, the kind of mud that clings to your boots and drags you down. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had not dreamed her; she was there as certainly as the sparrows had been there, leaving spindly scratches in the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they scrape the mud from their backs on that pine tree there, the one where the lower bark is rubbed smooth and tan. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make a snowman, but the thin layer was melting into mud. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The beautiful snow is melting, turning everything into pig heaven, what with all the mud puddles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Black children in rags were playing in mud puddles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our development was still raw, mostly unfinished skeleton houses and freezing pits of mud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

By the time I wander back to my father’s house, I’m covered in mud and tears. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had a full chrome grille, whitewalls, mud flaps, a push-button radio, the new stove bolt six engine, and a black convertible top that worked like a dream. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

These proved to be dirt and mud lanes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I felt it push against the net. But it swam down deeper, into the mud, and the net went over it.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Knowing that his colt had had some leg trouble in the past, Smith wanted to avoid mud whenever possible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy and I pass through the heavy silence like it's thick mud. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or stepped in a mud pot, boiling off most of their skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She would smell of mud and rust, and that dark black weed that grows deep beneath the sea beside rocks that are never uncovered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"When I first came here and saw the suffering and ruin, it nearly broke my heart. A once-great city flattened, and the people digging in the mud like dogs. I could hardly bear it." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Tyrion scraped the mud off his helm so he could see again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The streets—now swamps of muck and mud—were all but deserted save for a few laggards. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yakov didn’t wait for me under the blanket, dripping with mud and lagoon water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see anything to be careful of, like a dog that wanted to bite me or a mud puddle to slip in or anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, in muddy boots and earth-stained pants, lay them over our mud like bathroom tiles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They found their way to the depot, which was a couple of concrete warehouses in a scrubby area of waste ground where thin weeds grew between gray rocks and pools of icy mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dad fell to the vestibule carpet, the one Mom always yelled about when they tracked mud on it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was walking in a daze, his clothes wrinkled from the drizzle of rain, his face splattered with mud, his shins scratched. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of his face in the moonlight, caked in mud and distorted with fury, then I reached for his flailing arms and held on tight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One mud hut had a lighted window, and the vision of my dream swept me towards it to be witness at the birth of a baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cobwebs, the mud, the moss and lichen floated away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I panicked and jumped in the water, flopping into the mud and reeds at the river’s edge. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to the woods, where I saw his tracks — this big — and the mud he scratched bottom side the trees. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, between losing you and coming upon the mud slick, I tried to get to a lake I saw from the mountain.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each winter the waters withdrew, leaving behind a thick new layer of mud so black and fertile that two crops grew in Egypt while other lands eked out one. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her blonde hair is a tangle of blood, mud, and ice, her braid unpinned and hanging limply down her back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His uniform was dark with mud; his arms and face were filthy. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found nothing, and soon our clothes were washed over with mud and we were unrecognizable from the children who lived on the streets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a marble stair that spiraled up from the mud and ended jaggedly in air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Its gills go up and down, it shines wet under the sun, and it flaps and flaps and flaps in the dirt and mud. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It had fallen open at this glossy double page advert, and though the paper had gone soggy and there was mud at one corner, you could see it well enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut anchor line and tow line and kicked them free, and they blew ashore on the mud bank. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made a bold scientific declaration: even in the mysterious jungles of the New World, toads did not spring from mud, leaves did not change into moths, or butterflies into birds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dusty road passed in front of the church, then past Tenorio’s Bar and into the cluster of mud houses with rusted tin roofs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One dip in the road before the old Perkins place, he said, “Just let me out at the road, Miss Edmunds. Don’t try to turn in. You might get stuck in the mud.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The dirt on my hands turns to mud as condensation appears almost instantly on the plastic. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Finesteins live in the house beside ours, the big house that was built suddenly where the mud mountain used to be. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He floundered forward and found that he was dragging himself through liquid mud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow’s cabin was small, neat, thickly mudded between logs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It was only a bit of mud!” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Here there was still mud underfoot, cool and soothing after the hot baked clay of the roads. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Roz asked the animals to collect anything useful they could find: large stones, strong branches, chunks of frozen mud. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He carries with him a handful of mud, which he smears over the center of Prince Dain’s chest, just above his heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But one day—April the twenty-second, a drizzly Monday, it had been—he ran ahead of them all, the red mud slooching up through the holes in the bottom of his sneakers. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mud huts of the villagers would perish after several rainy seasons, but a Portuguese house was made of stronger materials and would survive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking across the yard, his Wellingtons covered in mud, grumbling to himself and holding a piece of piping. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empty spirit jugs were half buried in the mud around her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Why not ?” answered Chief White Halfoat, and lay back in the mud contentedly with the bottle of rye cuddled in his arms. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He distrusted the thick mud walls and built a frame house some distance away, and his cows put their heads out the deep recessed windows of the old Sanchez house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not terribly invested in the outcome,” she says, but something about the way she looks around at the tents and the mud makes Bailey doubt her words. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, Palmer looked about for signs of primitive living—mud, piles of rubbish—but saw nothing but clean furniture, carpets, pictures on the walls. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The house with its melting mud walls and skimpy square of land brought little. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were filled with the hurry-scurry of a moving army, splashing through mud puddles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grass and thorns, blackberries broken on the ground, mud, worms, rotting leaves, a rat creeping through the bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chandler was a brawler and bully, the local terror decent people crossed the street to avoid even when the rain made it a stew of mud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The men slept on the mud, with no protection against the elements, bugs, or each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Major Major had taken it for granted that he was being shaken roughly awake again to stand barefoot in the mud and had left his shoes and socks in the tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The black ’dobe mud covered Adam’s shoes and splashed the bottoms of his dark trousers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His efforts just seemed to stir up the mud and make the water dirtier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When the rain stopped, we marched back to the camp, covered in mud up to our waists. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But it was also a fragile plate, one that would last only until fate smiled on some other quarterback rising up out of some other mud puddle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whether she wants to see them or not, the mud mountains will be a good place to stand. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I stuck my face up to the crack, the door flew open, knocking me on the forehead and sending me flying backward, to land on my huckle bones in the mud. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me was a shiny clean horse stable, a field of wet salty mud, and fifty horses that had been scoured so thoroughly their coats gleamed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As far as one can see spout fountains of mud and iron. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands came out first, then my right leg with a vacuum plop as the mud rushed to fill the newly vacated space. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was cleaning mud out of the horse's hooves as Jon dismounted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m stuck down here in the mud on my belly, caught like an animal. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He tossed the stick down in the mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every evening I cleaned them, using a stick to remove any last trace of mud from the zigzag soles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other names prominent in that battle were, true to the temper of the times, disgraced and dragged through the mud. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked thinner than the last time I’d dreamed of him, and his sandals were spattered with mud, but the same cruel light shined in his eyes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His hair was caked up on one side with blood or mud like he got chunked there by a rock and never took the time to wash it out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open but he was no longer seeing the vermin-ridden trees around him, their blighted leaves, or the foul dark mud under his feet. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

With brown mud covering our faces, hair, and clothes, we laugh and roll in the sludge like pigs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one house, a man with a wooden pallet called a “hawk” is scraping adobe mud off this hawk with a trowel and smoothing it against a wall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All day it grew bigger, and before night the whole yard was bare mud. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud plaster was more soothing, and the herbwomen made him poppy wine as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With nothing to block it the wind flung wet gusts at me; at any other time I would have felt like a fool slogging through mud and rain, only to look at a tree. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was just a great expanse of black mud. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the cemetery the imam read a few suras and my uncle was lowered into the hole and covered with mud. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The clay was shoveled into one of the pits and water mixed in to form a thick viscous mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He shook himself like a big bear, hurling off great chunks of mud. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, with terrible composure, he stepped back and absently dragged the hand across his chest, smearing mud upon his lapel, his tie, the starched immaculate white of his shirt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I picked myself up, ignoring him as I brushed the mud and bracken off the back of my jacket. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Giant mounds of mud and debris had formed below the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mud is mud, regardless of whether there are dinosaur bones underneath it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His boots were dusty and spattered with dried mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Brown mud walls that had crumbled many a time and been rebuilt many a time. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all had mud up to our knees, and most of us had draped our sleeping bags on pine branches above us; water dripped from their corners. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The mud muffled the hooves of the blood bay stallion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few scrapes, some mud, and a fleck of Crispy Cheese ’n’ Wiener, but no tattoos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were just full of pushing, too, and they would have been sorry if they had pushed her into that swamp and lost her in the mud. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mixing it into a mud, I worked it into his wounds to stop the flow of blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brick was a pure, unsullied color, without so much as a dot of mud splashed from the rain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Where they had been grassy and sloping away gradually, the banks were steeper and cut away, exposing the dirt and mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

People awoke in the mornings to find their eyebrows caked with mud, and somehow brown crud deposits turned up on toothbrushes and in refrigerator ice cubes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring gurgled and trickled through mossy rocks, and she dipped her hands in it again and again, washing them clear of the mud and grime before lifting the water to her mouth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Take the number 5—it’s a jelly bean shape, red-brown, like the color of Carolina mud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Chapter Eleven asked what was in the pipe, Lefty wrote on his chalkboard, “Turkish mud.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what Jay, already ankle deep in the sucking mud, was doing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d trimmed his curly brown hair and beard for the summer, and his lower half, which was a white stallion, was flecked with mud and grass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Badly injured, the dog lay bleeding in the mud and would have been left to die unnoticed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been trying to get the mud from my boots, gave it up, and went to the mess tent. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she tripped and fell into the mud, smashing her chest against the basket, and the moment was gone. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cotton was stomping in the mud and Wishbone was snapping at the water swirling out of the sprinkler. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Thistles and goldenrod have grown up around it, like a thorny hedge, out of the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slapped my back awkwardly and stumbled, I catching his arm before he pitched into the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He threw mud balls until Yellow Kettle gave her hoe to him and told him that if he stopped working just once she would take away all of his play warrior weapons. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A massive and chaotic evacuation of the city was under way in the middle of the autumn mud season, called the rasputitsa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The second her shoes touched the mud, she bolted to the right, ducking around the nearest PSF’s hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the tide surged back in, the waterlogged timbers on which the structure was built weighed it down and held it fast to the mud. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had been standing in the mud surrounded by the ugly barracks, and Papa had been locked up in the stockade. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was clean underneath, but my hill-walking trousers were caked with mud and my wet hair was standing on end and I felt shabby as a street urchin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

This gave it a short runway above the mud—almost like taking off from an aircraft carrier. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They sprinted through the mud to Pollard’s side. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rock after rock is thrown into the puddle, and mud and water churn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The mud^imu of the Matsika clan would possess him and give Father advice from the ancestors. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the word leave his mouth, felt it fall over my face through the cotton damp with breath and mud. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They found Khal Drogo seated before a square window- less temple with thick mud walls and a bulbous dome like some immense brown onion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Would he do something to make her die because her hands and arms were dirty from the mud pies? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went there a few days after Zeitoun’s release from prison and found only mud and insects. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hey, look, this bank’s got hoof . marks all over the mud. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs were already covered with mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I could see how the back wheels were spinning uselessly, kicking back rooster tails of mud in the dark. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ground was sodden and slippery, equal parts mud and blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I am dripping with the big waters and mud of the Rio Grande. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She clutched her ears with both hands and rolled away from the mud pit, chest tight and breath hitching. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of his pants legs were wet, and mud clung to his shoes and smeared his hands. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are some concrete blocks sunk in the mud for stepping-stones so we can get to the door. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I felt were rocks, mud, and cold water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was concentrating on avoiding the large mud puddles left behind after the strong morning storm. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s square-shaped, a bungalow, built of yellow brick and surrounded by raw mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my balance, but my penny loafers had no grip, and a second later I lay in the mud, too, my flowered dress splattered with gunk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Our nightdresses picked up mud and sticks and leaves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Later, he’d be tracking that mud into the house for sure. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I splash water on my face and scrub until most of the pig's blood and mud have come off. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

After I wash them, I paint the jeans and shirt in some mud, so it looks like I crawled out of the lake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The layer of mud and the bottles of water have disguised the fact that he's burning with fever. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Full of weeds and darting eels and slow mud that oozed through toes like toothpaste. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others came and we all crouched in the mud behind the embankment, looking across the rails at the bridge, the line of trees, the ditch and the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It howled like ten pigs being gelded, rolling and thrashing in the rain-swollen mud, weeping a black river of itself, viscous fluid pumping over the blades’ rusted handle. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I kicked my legs, tried to get up, but my feet kept slipping in the mud and I couldn’t get enough of a grip or a foothold to move away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leaves stirred; mud shifted; there was the smell of overripe green things. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was my year in ruins, but my name was mud at C Average. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He left only to soothe his burned lip in the cool river mud and make a meal of the small fish he found lying on the bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The horses were drenched, and some were panicking and slipping in the mud. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This mud hut, nothing but mud and thatch, was my home. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Field hockey is a mud sport, played only on wet, cloudy days when it feels like snow. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Squelching through the sucking mud, I make it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I can’t,” I stammered, pushing away a memory of raw fingers digging in the mud and the smell of burning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His face was dusty and there were residues of mud in between his teeth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I managed to climb over it and I landed in soft mud. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squish me into the mud like the worm that I am. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They remained seated on the ground, leaning against the mud compound walls. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We passed village fields where people were at work in the rain and mud. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a while, but I finally get rid of enough mud to find his clothes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even when she was working in the garden, dressed in overalls and covered in mud, you could see how attractive she was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was glorious, despite the fact that Barack’s head cold managed to return in full force, and also despite the mud baths, which we deemed to be unsoothing and kind of icky. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We swam behind Bono until we had crossed the river, and then drifted silently, heads only above the water, bodies below crouched and twitching along the mud floor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“That’d be great,” I say It’s older now and a bit stale, the mud cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Will slid in under-neath, flat on his belly in the snow and the mud, and looked down on the empty, clearing below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tidbit piped up as he tried to scrape the mud off of his arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a hundred pairs of eyes pop out of the mud, and at night a hundred voices call across the moonlit water. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes it got cold; then it got dark; then the rain started pouring down on the field, turning it into mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods pressed close around them, and the steady pattering of rain on leaves was accompanied by the small sucking sounds their horses made as their hooves pulled free of the mud. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the water, the warm mud oozes itself between my toes and after a few steps, my feet and toes begin to tingle and itch again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As the boys backed away, Alyce stood, brushing the mud from her skirt with one hand and holding on to the boy with the other. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aymo lay in the mud with the angle of the embankment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They crossed another shallow waterway, where the soft river mud soothed their tired feet. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was four in the morning, still dark, when the twins, exhausted, distraught and covered in mud, made their way through the swamp and approached the History House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the landing field had become a sea of mud because there has been nothing but rain, rain, rain for the past week, all over France I think. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the water and the mud smooshed under my feet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I gag and I yank out the knife and paddle my way back along the mud. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I placed one foot on the brown-black mud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were grown men with thick forearms and huge, cracked hands; depending on the season, they were covered in gray dust or black mud. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Lord have mercy—” “I couldn’t make it to the back door. The yard’s so thick with mud I couldn’t get through.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We trooped through the grasses out onto the mud, where the rain fell densely all around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The jack handle was slippery with greasy mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My stick has never learned to navigate mud.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She stood for a long time with the sun on her head and her body, relishing the cool mud under her feet and the cold flow of springwater around her calves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I almost lose it right there, taking that first step, because it's a gunky pond and the mud is really oozy and deep and it sucks right up to my knees. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead we stood at attention, our feet sinking into the freezing mud while they called our numbers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

First Leo made himself a forge out of mud bricks, each one baked with his own fiery hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They fled deeper into the jungle, scrambling through mud and stumbling over thick cypress roots. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly woman’s expression was hard in a way Ophie had never seen, not even the time she’d yelled at the cousins for tracking mud through the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The adder, poisonous and silent as the Devil himself, slithered in through the space between the thin wooden door and the mud floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I did, and split my head against a car engine sunk into the black mud of the river. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Red light cut across the air right in front of them with a loud crack, throwing them back and into the mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He did take the time to smear the mud on the upper part of the trail while his sister waited by the bridge. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whole team splashed down into the mud. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They chopped the edges of the ditches and dug mud out of the bottom to build up the sides. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while I could hear them racing up and down the perimeter road in the mud, then they were gone. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The credits started rolling, and they started saying stuff like, “Does that school have a diving team?” and “I hear those mud baths are good for wrinkles.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm carts, carrying food and fuel to Boston, were still coming in over the mud flats connecting the town with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an ordinary denim uniform with no insignia of any kind and high boots with spurs that were caked with mud and dried blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Their feet sank to the ankles, but the mud was loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida spotted the boat, stuck in the mud upstream, on the same side of the river. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our clothes clung to us, and under our feet the dry dust of the courtyard softened into mud and squeezed up between our toes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the pen, maybe thirty others sleep on straw laid atop frozen mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes open, unmistakably blue in the brown mud and green leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The rivers boiled and the mud bubbled and entire lakes turned into steam. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And then she collapsed with her face half in the mud. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whiskers perched himself on the still-empty chicken coop—I hoped to order some chicks soon from Sears and Roebuck—earnestly licking the mud from his white paws. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well... I’m the only one not completely covered in mud, anyway. Be back soon.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In summer it will barely be there, and the crayfish will hide in the wet mud under rocks until the next rain. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Helen saw her husband ride the arc of the filly’s back down into the mud and disappear under her tumbling body and the bodies of the three horses who struck her from behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, I perceived, summer lightning cutting through the storm, etching mud and spire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When at last the tips of his toes touched mud, he forced his limbs to make swimming motions one last time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exam was in twelve weeks, and Neel lugged home piles of extra geometry problems that made his tired brain feel as thick and sticky as mud. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Jonas as we walked out of our mud hut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many of the buildings were made of stacked logs with cracks filled with mud—like Anya’s own home back in Zmeyreka. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

All around the barn, the storm had churned the dirt near to mud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dripping with salty water and covered with mud, they jogged home as fast as they could. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of birds had built a small nest of mud and grass in the highest beams, had themselves a family. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And Lizzie Bright threw her rake across the flats, sat down in the mud, and began to cry. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I stop to replenish my water and add a layer of mud to my backpack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Regardless of the weather, the expedition rode mules and marched for over sixteen hours a day, sometimes through sheets of rain and slippery mud, sometimes under the baking sun. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We parked near the country club, which was down a bit, and hiked the quarter-mile silently, in the mud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had another half-second to fill his lungs with air and she was on him again, using her head to drive him down into the mud of the bottom. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could even imitate him telling some of his jokes, while I remembered his eyes were turned down at the outside corners and deep brown like springtime mud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then he and the other Americans jumped out of the mud and charged toward the trees. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I eventually realized that where there’s mud, there’s water, so an underground stream must run somewhere below the room.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our house is also mud, thatch, cement, and flowering vines. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dirty as he was, he almost hated to scrub away the smells of musky tiger cub, souring goat’s milk, thick creek mud, and salty Sunderbans water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw nothing except well-worn bricks and mud. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some had hit the water and sunk up to their throats in mud, and others looked like they were crawling, caught in bizarre motion. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The woods were deathly still, more forbidding than I had ever seen them—green and black and stagnant, dark with the smells of mud and rot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They wipe it clean, untangle the snarl of wires, wash mud out of the earphone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The roof had given way, and everything inside was covered in the same grey mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was smeared with mud and the torn rag was dangling from the gap he had stuffed it into. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But the boys hung a rag permanently and accidentally on the rear plate to conceal its vintage and they dabbed the front plate with good thick mud. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A billion tiny mud creatures lived and ate and died in the top layer of sand, and the little casts and breathing holes and invisible movements showed that the whole landscape was aquiver with life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“July 29 “A big storm dumped so much water on the mountain the last three days that the dam washed out—logs, rocks, and mud. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers had to tramp in the mud, bending and stooping and planting day after day. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the stalled motorboat yanked frantically on the cord to his engine, and the two mud hens sought supper at the bottom of the lake, tails bobbing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they didn’t live in the mud anymore. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The rain and mud had made every mile into ten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed my first-baseman’s mitt up in the air and tried to have it land on my head, but it fell in a mud puddle. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was covered in mud and scratches from their flight through the woods, but neither the pastor nor his wife seemed to mind much. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The cairn was a little taller than me, long and narrow with a rectangular opening in one end, like a door, and it rose from the mud on a tussock of grass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I thought back to the time Chasca had found me covering my face with mud, trying in vain to hide my scar. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

From inside his cloak Moody now withdrew a flask of what looked like mud. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I started up the embankment, slipping in the mud. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I learned my lesson with the mud worms, so I drug out an old piece of plywood and lay on that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when the older soldier did not stop, the suddenly taut rope made Jonathan slip and fall into the mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Irene took a step toward me, put her hand on my arm, a little of that greasy mud smearing my shirt. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

With this in mind, the sight of her bare blue toes curling into the river mud struck him with a deep poignancy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It would be a long walk to gather saplings and a hard chore to dig the mud by the riverbank. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started smashing the bat into the mud ruts in front of him, grunting with rage at every blow. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dung heap, a bunch of logs covered in mud, sand, and moss. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, sometimes they positively enjoyed smearing their tiny faces with mud or pollen, and then asked him, giggling, to guess which of them it was behind all the muck. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She and Percy followed Bob, the golden mud flecks from Hyperion’s burst bubble glowing on his janitor’s uniform. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Those with a faint yellow X, or an orange or red one, were forced to fight through the mud with their hands and feet in metal cuffs, a long chain connecting them in a line. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the suffocating cabin, maddened by the vibration of the metal plates and the unbearable stench of the mud stirred up by the paddle wheel, Meme lost track of the days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It would be so quiet, the only sound the fizzling of the flares, and then you’d hear the whistle of a sniper’s bullet streak out of the darkness and bury itself in the mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling’s horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Taran called over his shoulder, trying to keep Hen Wen from the mud. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They ran toward the edge of the forest, and all at once, the mud began pulling them down. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bullet went into the mud of the embankment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Valley tugged hard anyway, pulling Seven deeper into the mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we came down from the second story, we saw the floors and furniture were covered with sticky mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the mud like a chess player thinking out a move. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The families are quiet and somber, the only sounds come from the branches brushing against the side of the truck and the slush of mud sticking to the tires. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-three gleaming black carriages stood in the yellow mud of Michigan Avenue in front of the Lexington Hotel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Several of the boys were pushing as well, and with a sudden lurch the bottom of the boat lifted from the mud and moved forward into the water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rainwater dripping from the roof splattered in the mud below. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So they covered each one over with mud. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We ate that mud, too, as if it were food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful not to be squishing in chicken mud, which I did not have nightmares about so frequently now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled at her, and a salty drop of tear and mud caught on the edge of my lip. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I like to think so. Having young ones is a big responsibility. You have to teach them how to take mud baths, of course, and emphasize the importance of fiber in their diet.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She discovered the burrows they made in the bank, built with mud and bits of straw. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do we just lie down on the cracked, dried mud of the lake bed and call it a day? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sisterton’s streets were mud and planks, its houses daub-and-wattle hovels roofed with straw, and by the Gallows Gate there were always hanged men with their entrails dangling out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he lay there in the mud, choking and sobbing for breath. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary led the way along a hard path above the mud; like many things the mulefa had made, it was ancient and perfectly maintained, more like a part of nature than something imposed on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a patch of mud off to the side, leading into deeper water, and he could see old clam shells there, so there must be clams. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was torn and greasy and caked with mud, but it was still plastic. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You could’ve given me a warning that didn’t involve knocking me into a puddle,” I growled, swiping strings of mud from the seat of my pants. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He saw no thousands on the mud flats, and there were none in the pastures from which he had come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its stiff walls of heavy yellow canvas were badly faded, stained by mud and water, with spots of mildew showing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The cart wheels sank deep in the mud as they turned, mud spattered continuously from the creaking wheels. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents stand in their backyard, hands on their hips, looking out over the expanse of raw mud, planning their garden. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground at Birkenau was like a swamp, wet and thick with mud, and there were no floors in the barracks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes planted on the floor, counting the specks of mud and lint. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wiped my tears and got a running start and leapt across the water to the other side, land- ing safely in the squishy mud. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since treating his wounds seems pointless when he's lying in what's become a mud puddle, I manage to prop him up against a boulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit hated to be pelted in the face with mud thrown up by other horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But the mud held fast, and she could not run. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For a while I tried to shine them with spit, but the mud was too much. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I’d seen bulls ride cows, horses hump mares, pigs rolling in mud, their bodies connected under the female’s tail. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I loved running and playing outside, even sinking my feet into the marsh’s pluff mud, which was warm and soft as cake batter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Near the door the stone floor was slick with black mud, and from beyond it came a high-pitched humming noise, punctuated with little clicks and scratches. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I was finished, he took the edge of the towel and wiped a little of the mud from my leg. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wishbone got mud on the floor but Mrs. Odom didn’t even care. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then he threw himself face down as if he would grind his body through me and into the mud. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Beginning with that day when Goblin had tumbled Lieutenant Stranger in the mud, Johnny had no more trouble with the British stable boys. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With abandon, I ran and skipped and kicked big rocks and stomped through mud puddles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled down the hill-slopes, treacherous with mud and stones, sighing with relief as I reached the road. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mother used to say, not a thing stands still but sticks in the mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shaking so hard that I instinctively curled around him in the mud, forming a barrier like he was a fire about to go out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I type back: “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I did not join in, nor did I throw clods of mud as many did, including the bloodthirsty girl next to me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been built of mud and straw, she judged, but long years of wind and rain had worn them away to nothing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From all the hoofed-up mud, I guessed it was used as a feeding trough. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He stopped by a mighty anthill, with ridges running across the red mud as if they were deliberate designs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girl loves to build little houses out of mud behind Gloria’s house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I see them. Looks like some big trucks got stuck in the mud.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

For how he'd accepted the fact that he’d grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s like each step is swamp mud sucking him down and he’s got to lift extra hard to get to the next step. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam stamped the mud off his shoes when he reached the pavement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It slid in the mud on the ground from the rain the night before. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As you can see, the mud is dry. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They were still stained a pale orange from years of walking barefoot on red mud. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had been blown away bodily, the mud walls had crumbled. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gryphons’ shrieking stopped abruptly, replaced by the thunk, thunk, thunk of heavy objects hitting the mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair stuck out in every direction and her face was smeared with mud, the pattern almost ritualistic-looking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Its massive talons dug into the mud as it pulled itself forward, its tail whipping from side to side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was stabbing and snapping at something in the mud and after a few moments pulled out a six-inch leech and swallowed it whole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one else seemed to want to run in the mud either. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was covered in slimy, black stinking mud, and he walked into the room like a zombie. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Castroville Street was deep in sticky mud, and Chinatown was so flooded that its inhabitants had laid planks across the narrow street that separated their hutches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bottoms of our jeans were caked with mud too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as a gift for the people he had made, so they could survive. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I wipe the mud out of my eyes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large, soft snow danced about them as they stood barefoot in the icy mud, hands clasped, eyes all for each other. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He so caked with mud and matted leaves, I can't even see his clothes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

If their folks are such geniuses, how come they spend their days rooting around in the mud? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He slipped back into the water and began swimming again, taking long, even strokes, kicking and pushing along the mud; pulling himself forward. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking at a group of Vietnamese kids playing in the mud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The overgrown grass scraped at my shins, and my sneakers sunk into the mud with each step. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand men and women are standing in pouring rain and ankle-deep mud to watch Abraham Lincoln take the oath of office to begin his second term. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie smiled and flung the mud he was holding, hitting me on the shoulder. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the tires, polished up the front bumper, practically licked the mud flaps clean. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Rain had softened the road, liquid mud came squelching up between my toes as I walked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent over, clutching his stomach and panting, then knelt in the mud of the stream bank and watched the troubled water subside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She patched up the hole in the dome with a latticework of branches before adding a layer of mud and leaves, and soon the repairs were complete. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"The boy will clean them. I won't have you tracking mud up my stairs. Mind the bell. Those who come late to meals don't eat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Try not to get mud on the seat,” said David. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hard frosts grew less reliable, the planes continued to struggle to take off out of the mud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Bonello tired of walking in the mud of the embankment and came up with the rest of us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that long night in the rain, I’d seemed to grow cold inside, all the illusions gone, all the old ambitions and hopes for myself sucked away into the mud. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chunks of mud spray behind me off the tires. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The mud and plants seem to have imprisoned him and I finally have to give a gigantic tug to break him from their clutches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She had barely noticed him until after the bombing, when he said, “The mud will stain your dress,” and helped her up, Okeoma’s shirt still wrapped around her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to run to him, but the mud sucked my feet down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the tailored waistcoat was gone and his shirt was dirty with sweat and mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the gray-black rocklike creatures that moved lazily in the sandy mud on the bank of the river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbors suggested their own remedies: arnica compresses, packed mud from a holy well, ground elephant tusk from the Niger to mix in her daily broth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to point at other men, conveniently dead, starting with the ones who first scooped up mud from riverbanks to catch the scent of a source. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed because Nsukka s untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the smell of mud,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I worked my way downhill, slip-sliding in the mud and following a stream that led to Beaver Creek. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The straw sticking out of the mud started to smoke. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The ripeness of the harvest piled around the mud houses and lent life and color to the songs of the women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hiked back down to the highway through the mud. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And behold! when he washed the mud away, there in his hand lay a beautiful golden ring; and it shone and glittered in the sun, so that his heart was glad. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One naked girl with mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His socks were gone and his ankles were scratched and caked with mud. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly and carefully he rolled about in the thick mud until it formed a poultice, cooling the wounds in his leg and neck, preventing further blood loss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t help picturing a goat with big tires stuck in the mud, and it made me giggle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slid on Aegis like a snow board, over rocks and mud and snow, racing downhill. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She waded closer to the shore, then pulled herself out of the mud and onto more solid land. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now they had gone back to being civil, Mama often came over to see Baby, through the wooden gate in the mud wall that separated her home from Odenigbo’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Svadilfari was sure-footed and implacable, even in the thickest, wettest mud, and he hauled the rocks to Asgard, although the stone-boat was so heavy it cut deep gashes into the sides of the hills. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Nobody ought to die the way he would have—lying in a ditch, drowning in mud and whiskey and his own vomit.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, unmindful of the mud and mire clinging to his knees and coat, and he bowed to her, and then he doffed his bowler hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I woke: I was standing, my feet in the mud. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, who beat us there, watches me track mud up the stairs and doesn’t say a thing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘I found it in the mud in the middle of the Bridge,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The other kids took their shoes off before they squelched around in the mud, but I figured with my artificial legs, everything would be just fine. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

While he waited in the shade of a tree, brushing dried mud from his trousers, the Prime Minister was recognized by a villager and pulled into what quickly became an excited crowd. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things I couldn’t name, all of it steeped in old rainwater and mud. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His face was turned down, and I could see where mud had caked into his hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Plodding up the hill through the mud and beaten-down grasses, he slammed his bare feet down hard. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I feel to know the strong-minded lady who goes so bravely under many horse noses, and so fast through much mud. What do you down here, my friend?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra wandered away on her own, and went to the reedy bank to sit and throw mud into the water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was so excited to be getting out of that horrid mud hole I couldn’t think straight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped toward me, lifting his feet high to get them free of the thick mud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The white pig, usually eager for a bath, now squealed nervously and rolled on her back in the mud. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Think of the boats on a tidal river; at low tide they are stuck in the mud. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the closer tents are splattered with mud, but none are burned despite the charred ground surrounding them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The deep mud of the shallows was cool and soothing to his bare feet, but he could take no pleasure in it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kino moved cautiously so that the water would not be obscured with mud or sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now. But you should clean up before you go—you don’t want to track mud all over their chambers.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With that she gives him a polite nod and walks back the way they came, and as Bailey watches her go he notices that the mud is not sticking to her boots. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Picking up some mud in his paws, he quickly made his way to the place where he knew Hyena would sleep at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She stands up and wipes her brows with her sleeve, leaving a trail of mud on her face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close up, the potion looked like thick, dark mud, bubbling sluggishly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

So thither I journeyed every morning, and when I said how many we were, perhaps half a mud pot would be doled out, sometimes a little more, depending upon who was in charge. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my hands, to the dark mud still caked under my fingernails. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced the rooms with his arms crossed, bits of mud shaking off of his boots with each furious footfall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snow in the roadway was already turning to mud, and she slung a pair of snowshoes on her back in case the tracks up the mountain were still deep in snow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mud continued to swirl around us in a rapid clockwise motion. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and walked up the path, keeping well to the side, out of the mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ralph had wiped off all the mud and had polished his chrome, he rummaged through the remains of his nest for a bit of carpet fringe. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

My Sunday school dress was torn in three places, and Peach’s white shirt and blue suit pants were brown, heavy and sticky with mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first light, he got up and quietly scrubbed away the mud Jen had tracked in and up the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much mud and so many twigs in my hair, Mama said, “Oh, if Aunt Florentine could only see this!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Debbie got there, she thought Sasha must have fallen in mud, because why else would their legs have those black splotches? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They watched while the clam seized up around it and drew its neck into the mud. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His arms, legs and chest were itchy from the drying mud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

From the bus I saw a farmer walking his field, waiting for the mud to tell him when to plant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the tide out, a wide mud flat lay exposed. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know that everything exists because tiny specks, too small to see, move through an invisible field the way a pair of boots moves through mud, getting heavier as they go. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Miss Nsia said, “I am the greatest fool that ever walk on mud.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Around at the side of the building in the mud and the ice and the quick, soft, rank spring growth of the garden, a young couple stood talking. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around its sides rushed a flow of men, their body paint and tattoos obscured by dust from the hardened, brick-like mud that lay underneath the entire city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like kudzu, mud, cool gravel, and dead fish. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I longed to be like the turtles in the dried-out streams, hidden in the mud, waiting for the rains to give them life again. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was expecting the usual jarring thud, but my hands didn’t stop when they hit the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It stopped raining, and our legs were splattered with mud to our thighs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Snow brushed over the tips of every peak up in the San Gabriels, but down on the track there was only rain and slippery mud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long coat around her drags in the mud as he carries her into the house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working in the mud so much made it spread everywhere and the hot sun dried it onto their clothes and hair and homes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we fight about this later? I’m up to my knees in cursed mud!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the south end of the garden, in the shadows of a loquat tree, was the servants’ home, a modest little mud hut where Has- san lived with his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is of middle age, cloaked in excremental mud, crabbing slowly along the knife tip of a cliff, his thin hair uncombed and hanging wet across his face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, creeping up to Hyena, he smeared the mud all over the sleeping creature’s legs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was unrecognizable under many layers of yellow mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gestured at his torn pants, the dirt and straw embedded in his sandy blond hair, the mud—or worse—that hadn’t been washed away by the rain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Around sunset we arrived at an abandoned village with she mud houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But there is water in the mud, down at the bottom of the crater. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plumber told me this dang tree is plugging up some of the pipes. Least bit of rain and the yard turns into a giant mud puddle.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before them towards Mordor lay like a moat a great mire of reeking mud and foul-smelling pools. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had rained heavily the night before, and the road was a thick morass of mud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Winter meant cold rain and streets filled with thick mud. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Five years feels like a lifetime when one day bleeds into the next, and your world doesn’t stretch any farther than the gray electric fence surrounding two miles of shoddy buildings and mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, both Seven and Valley had been so busy scowling at each other that they hadn’t noticed the moment they’d sunk, almost to their knees, in the thick red mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lost my balance twice and fell into the mud, but I managed to right myself quickly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, Matty’s shoes remained, coated with the slippery mud so that he appeared to be wearing heavy wet boots by the time he dragged himself from the other side of the swamp. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Johnny came out with a fishing pole and a rusty tin can filled with worms in mud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit there, scratching the dry mud out from between my toes and then looking up at the sky, wondering when more bullets will rain down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to bring her to a real riverbank and let her sink her toes into the mud. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now all the things that happened when he was alive are over and done with: the war, the planes with only one wing, the mud outside our house, a lot of things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s other child stood for a long moment, knee deep in water and mud, before it, too, was gunned down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit came home third, drenched to the bone, covered head to toe in mud, and miserable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have a bit of an odor, but an odor can’t hurt you any more than mud can—or darkness, for that matter. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wagons continued on their slow way south through frozen mud and blowing snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much about my early life, but I do remember this: Whenever I got the chance, I would dip my fingers into cool mud and use my mother’s back for a canvas. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ugwu lay on a mat in his mother’s hut, staring at a dead spider squashed on the wall; its body fluids had stained the mud a deeper red. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their son, Max, is six, fond of mud, dogs, and questions no one can answer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her feet slipped now and then on mud frozen to ice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah’s ark. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Look!” he said, pointing to his feet, encased in mud that was already drying into a crust. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And heavier than a pig dipped in mud. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The only sound I heard was the squish of my feet on the mud or stones. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each night, the construction crews emerged from the tunnel covered in mud and construction debris. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The liquid splashed over her skin and onto the ground, creating a small puddle of mud. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The last I saw of him was his straight back convulsed in laughter, his khaki pants and knee socks spattered with mud. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After slogging through mud in the morning and waiting in long lines for latrines and something to eat, everyone was bleary-eyed and subdued. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As a child I secretly welcomed the first warm day of spring by yanking off my shoes and standing waist deep in the cordgrass to feel the cool mud squish up between my toes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized suddenly that they were wet—not from the damp mud of the riverbank, but from water that was streaming in through cracks between the boards. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A bunch of countrified folks yelling and screaming, waving flags and chewing tobacco, forcing confused kids to crawl through mud, preparing them to get killed in a war? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He knew a lot about soil and mud and things like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother walked with the stars in her hair. The rest of our company squatted around her and picked out equations in mud.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After a second, she start wiping the mud off her face real slow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His body was caked in mud, wet and dirty. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked a glob of wet mud out from under a horseshoe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He clipped his white tail and made Rabscuttle nibble his fur short and stain it with mud and blackberries. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In wet weather the road became one big sea of mud which, according to my mother, would be “worth your life to drive through.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep mud that sucked at our feet, the swarms of insects, the eruptions of the volcano were like messages of the island’s unhappiness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water. Moss grows under their arms in place of hair, and they can live with nothing to eat but mud and breathe swamp water." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He paused to brush away a mosquito and rubbed a swash of mud across one side of his face. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The creatures were surrounding something that lay glittering in the mud: something slightly taller than they were, which lay on its side, a large cage, perhaps, with walls of crystal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thick mud covered their thighs, then their waists. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loses his footing and slips in the thickening mud, landing on his back with throat exposed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The river moved rapidly back into flatter country, swamps, lakes, and the first thing that happened was the bottom turned to mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on!” she yelled as, with a great effort, she got out of the mud and onto solid ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bags and stepped out into the mud and stones of a path that led into the town. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ember’s colors were all so much the same—gray buildings, gray streets, black sky; even the colors of people’s clothes were faded from long use into mud green, and rust red, and gray-blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lining both sides of the street were ramshackle booths and huts constructed of any material that would keep out the weather—hides, sticks, mud. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They become two rivers: one flowing right, to the shave-tattoo-uniform; one flowing left, to the chimney, evaporating into the air we breathe, raining into the mud we walk in. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The last thing I heard was Grandma Sands yelling, “Boy, if you slam that door like that again ...” I looked down and saw my socks flying over the Alabama mud. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nita had given Nailer and Tool a bunch of names to memorize, writing them in the mud for Nailer so that he could memorize the pattern of their letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at them, twirling little sticks inside tins filled with mud, pretending to be cooking, porridge maybe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is in the mud again, gasping for breath. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erik went splashing down into the mud, but he didn’t stay there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boots and waffle stompers tracked mud and icy water into the halls of Irwin J. Sneed Elementary School, where the wearers were met by Mr. Costa holding a large mop. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes were smeared with mud and vomit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we came to a dry riverbed, people would dig and dig and dig, looking for wet mud to suck on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all other gangs, they fought with their rivals, but as one member recalled, they were mostly “tomato fights, mud fights, and raids.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of them had already been filled with bodies and covered again with dark mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down in the mud and slush. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all the same, Ruby, drenched, covered with mud, exhausted from plodding through the molasses muck, persevered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all it went just south of the fisherman's cottage to the little river which there ran into the sea, and took care to leave in the mud some very plain hoof-marks pointing south. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Because Tibe tripped me. I had my eyes on the stars, and didn’t watch the mud I walked in.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stared down at Takumi’s twig sticking erect out of the mud and said, “I swear to God I won’t rat.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Don’t want to get throwed in the mud?” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens his mouth, gasping for air, but instead chokes on a mouthful of mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were covered with mud from escapes through swamps. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sank through the murk, sure that I was about to end up embedded in a hundred feet of mud and lost forever. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The marsh fiddlers are important in other ways as well, being useful scavengers and aerating the mud of the marshes by their extensive burrowings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A little spring mud remains under the pine trees near the fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some, waking on the mud, stood up and wagged their wings vigorously. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our gifts are trampled in the mud and made useless. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I won’t hurt you!—but the fog and the mud seemed to swallow my voice. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In agony and hopelessness, he turned away from her and rolled off the blanket and into the thick foul­ smelling mud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I could hear my watch. mud was warmer than the rain it smelled awful. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gymnasium was contiguous to the east wing of the school, and a grassless football field with cracked baked mud harrowed by cleats formed the far boundary of the campus to the north. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud got on my shoes and splashed up my legs, making my skin itchy and uncomfortable. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The kayak weighed a ton because it was full of water and covered with slimy mud and algae. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I take in the wall, splattered and splashed with mud. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There was mud or worse streaked on my palms, and I wouldn’t be able to sit still until I had scrubbed away all traces. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the struggle or the mud of last night’s rain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Covered with mud from whatever bolt-hole she’d found, but alive nonetheless. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then I turned a corner and, right in the mid­dle of that barren land, I saw a cluster of mud houses, beyond them nothing but broad sky and mountains like jagged teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

George, Florah and Maria, whom I was baby-sitting that day because my mother had left at dawn to go hunt for jobs and food, were playing in a small mud puddle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A puddle of coal mud swirled about his feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I am finishing up, Izzie walks in with his clothes all caked with mud. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ser Jorah broke the dry mud with his knife, pried the chunks from the flesh, peeled off the leaves one by one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our faces are smothered with duck-weed and mud, but the cover is good. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had studied Seabiscuit’s past performances and knew that the horse did not run his best in mud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, bone-weary and dragging through the red-clay mud of still another shallow river they had to cross, they paused to search for crayfish or clams. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

True to form, I had forgotten my rubber boots, and the path was a rapidly deepening ribbon of mud. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was huddled in the mud like a pathetic animal, chewing slowly, tears streaming down her face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ned could see dried mud and blades of grass clinging to the leather where Robert's feet stuck out beneath the blanket that covered him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It flapped its gray wings in the red mud, twisting and flailing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rain, mud, tiger, and goat’s milk—he needed a bath! Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was coated in mud, shaking with cold, and her knee was swollen and sore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And it leaks its fury into the water pools and the mud vats and the noxious vents. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some of the slave women quickly daubed her leg with mud and wrapped it tightly with strips of cloth ripped from their own dresses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a powerful combination for a man who has been existing in the mud of society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odor evaporated; the leaves were still, the mud settled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After two hours of running drills, backline plays, and conditioning, we were all of us covered in sweat and grass and mud. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first thing he saw was Pipkin, plastered with mud, crawling to the bank a few feet away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men grunted and cursed below as their fancy breeches and overcoats turned brown with the mud and their lovely beaver hats went rolling off down the road. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I have to help, but mostly I watch with detachment as they upend themselves in the mud, digging and weeding, clay stains on the knees of their pants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took his cap from Annabeth, brushed off the mud, and stuck it firmly on his curly head. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked better with a little mud—less like a beauty queen and more like an actual get-your-hands-dirty kind of person. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The rain three days before has left the field wet and slippery with mud, making it difficult for the villagers to keep their balance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a wide gap which had been trodden into mud by cattle. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back, beneath the farthest eave, Joseph found three cartons marked simply with the letter B. They were filled with men’s clothing, some covered in dirt and mud, all carefully folded. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

About a quarter mile away, a Hyperborean giant was sitting in the bog, peacefully picking mud from between his toes with a broken tree trunk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Directly across the lake from it, at the inside comer of the L, was a mound of sticks and mud rising up out of the water a good eight or ten feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t risk leaving footprints in the mud. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like eating a bowl of mud. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed that, either, tangled in the mud of my thoughts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was broken and the arrows, incredibly, were still on his belt in the pouch, although messed up with mud and water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can wipe off some of that mud,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ancient wars had depopulated much of the city, however, and large areas of Volantis had begun to sink back into the mud on which it stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond him, in the semi-darkness, running across mud flats, was the one road which connected Boston with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frosting wasn’t as easy to work with as jungle mud. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

My feet had been completely swallowed by the mud, and I was shivering in my pajamas, but no one took notice, and no one came up to cut the plastic binding our hands. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think we should clean up the mud?” she says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I loved ebb tide, when the pluff mud bubbled, and flood tide, when the waters lapped gently against the shore. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shirtless and with hair shaved short to prevent lice, they scampered and wrestled and searched for frogs in the mud. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He smeared more and more mud into his wound. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought the cattle were standing or lying in a grayish mud. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Papi dipped his trowel into the cement mud in the wheelbarrow by his side and slapped the mud onto a foundation block. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They found her body on the path that led to the well, an empty mud pot beside her and the gunny sacking tied around her waist. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor beneath us changed from cement to mud to bricks and back again. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bottom was covered with fine silt and mud that was half water and in this the two rabbits had made furrows as they dragged themselves to shore. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered in mud till all that could be seen were their eyes and mouths. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fools attract elil by being easy prey,” said Bigwig, cleaning the mud out of his whiskers and blowing through his long front teeth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hauled himself through the jagged hole, shaking the last of the recycled mud from his pants. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two others had died in a fall storm and washed up on the mud flats of Lanheedron Island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl—the same one that had pulled me down to the mud outside—gave me a fierce look. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I am not for those in mud that crawl. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She righted herself and now her hands were thick with mud and a red trickle of blood patterned her leg. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His body had made a trough of the wet mud, in it he lay jerking and twitching. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the mud flats small fountains erupted, dozens of them, spurting two feet or more, then again, then lower, then dwindling and stopping. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our roads turned to mud, and the autos just couldn’t make it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud seemed to flow back faster than they could dig, but Kiowa was their friend and they kept at it anyway. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley finished off his last mud pie, watering it with his tears. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

O Lord — say that he shall not go there — decree it — the mud where men lie whitening as they die. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘His bones are rolling around in the mud somewhere.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, slowly he began to crawl aside; but the Black Captain, in doubt and malice intent upon the woman before him, heeded him no more than a worm in the mud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could have knelt in the mud and kissed the man’s hands, but I didn’t. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wiggled her bare toes and looked up at the sandstone cliffs where the swallows were inside their round mud nests, making high-pitched noises. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a long stick and drew a circle in the mud, a line trailing down from it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had learned that mud dried quickly in Inti’s hot rays and, if put on properly, gave the temporary feeling of a smooth face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The other is pushing the pole too hard into a patch of mud at the bottom of the river. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Witchlings picked up their pace, which was proving difficult as their boots sank into the dark red mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Imagine a winter sweater that’s been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep, spring's lovely all right. If you like mud. And summer’s even lovelier, long as you don’t mind the fires of Hades.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She walked to the train, feeling heavy and slow, her mind choked with mud, and, seated by the window, she began to cry. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And that will mean waiting for the mud to dry out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, Fabio, judges, I spent my day digging for grubs in the most disgusting mud you can possibly imagine. Then I helped build a desalination still. Oh, and my shoes are by Cheri of Paris.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped his mind from his body, separated the two, while he lay in the trench, pressing himself into the mud, luxuriating in how close and connected he was to the mud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man sits against a mud wall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had stopped near a group of young boys playing in the mud. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water filling my boots makes it hard to move my legs, but the mud locks them in place when I manage to stand still. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I thought how easy it would be to come up behind him and push him under, hold him down and fill his mouth with mud, the way he must have died. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We walk up the hill, granite road turning to dust and mud and weeds, and turn down the path to the right of the mahogany tree. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She raised a hand to her face and wiped away the tears, leaving a smudge of mud on her cheeks. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped down the bank onto a little peninsula of mud, wrapped a too-small life vest around her neck, and climbed into the front of the canoe. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She only pulled out of your reach on the last turn. It was all that practice racing mud puppies back at the lake.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But of course, rice seedlings can’t be planted in hard clay, so on top of the clay, there has to be a thick, soft layer of mud. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then nothing to do but wait for the rain to turn to snow and the mud to ice; not long, for I had spent over a month on my way from Mishnory to Turuf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dodged to avoid the scoop of mud Neel flipped his way. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

All I did was slide around in the mud and try to pull people up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed the water into our scalps, behind our ears, under our arms, then sent us to chase one another in the slippery mud. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His black hair is covered in mud, and his eyes burn with the panic of a cornered animal as he looks between Faris and me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The whooshing was getting louder, and I felt afraid for the first time, afraid that we might all get sucked down and drown in the mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki went sprawling in the mud, bounced up with a knife in hand, and died with Aggo's arrow through his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every red mud house squats in the middle of its red dirt yard, for the ground in the village is cleared hairless as a brick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In summer I always remember her with dirt under her nails and on her jeans. She had a pair she only wore for gardening. I swear the knees were made of mud patches.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We slowly made our way across until I could feel mud under my feet. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rings metallically, the walls reel, rifles, helmets, earth, mud, and dust fly everywhere. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my feet sunk into the mud and sad, yellowed grass, I had my first good look around. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He fought them, trying to lie down in the ditch beside the blanket already partially buried in the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he vaulted down into the mud of the perimeter road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished uncovering the pipe, we looked like the mud men of Borneo worshiping a fallen idol. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Careening downhill, bumping over rocks and dried mud holes, we like to shook apart before we got the dern wagon under control. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She lit a match and he saw that her nails, usually pristine, were battered and chewed, and there was mud under them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had mud on my shoe, on my sock, on my artificial legs, inside my artificial legs, on my gray shorts, on my shirt, under my fingernails and halfway up my arms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Every time Papá tilled the furrows, more mud clods bubbled up, leaving the ground coarse and uneven again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

With the help of other refugees, Beatrice and her sons built a mud hut for shelter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His uncle tried to struggle out of the mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Arya held her breath and kissed the mud on the floor of the tunnel and cried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They made the walls with branches of trees and grass that they covered with mud, and the UN gave us a big piece of nylon fabric to use as a roof. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found quail tracks in the dust, quail tracks in the sand and mud of stream beds, bits of quail-feather fluff in the dry tips of the sage. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The side of her face and body was plastered with a brown-gray mud. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels Geak bounce slightly on her back as she catches her balance and prevents herself from a fall in the mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were tables set up there, and they were covered with various clumps of that rust-colored mud so greasy it’s mostly just clay, and poking from some of those clumps were the fossils. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She looked like she had walked through mud! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I fished into my pocket for my handkerchief, but my pocket was a mass of mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She fumbled in the water, found a stone the size of her fist, pulled it from the mud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cursing, Bernabe stumbled through heaps of mud and refuse in order to get a closer shot, but the raven scrambled frantically away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I could let go of the kid, and he scrambled up through the mud and weeds like a wet cat breaking frantic from a bathtub. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

His arm was wrapped in yarrow and mud, thanks to Jacob’s quick work. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“After a while, this mud will dry so hard we won’t be able to get apart.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Throughout the country the water holes had dried up, leaving only parched expanses of baked mud. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her grippy shoes were ruined, their soles cracked like sunbaked mud, so she flew slowly, scooping up handfuls of water to soothe her burning face and arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of mud, and with the abundance of precious water everything with the potential of being green flexed and groaned and desperately began to grow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She set them in a pit in the middle of the fire and heaped live coals around the balled mound of mud. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I thought it must have been because of all the mud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His messy brown hair was spattered with rain and mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dark and deep as the mud of the Nile, Set brooded lumpily through a mist of sandalwood incense—ninety-nine cents at Schmitt’s—over all kinds of mystic ceremonies, weird rites and wicked plots. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His call went unanswered, echoing eerily against the grimy mud bricks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The mud was cold and slick under her, but at least she was on the ground again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now I think I’ll never leave this mud and cold and misery. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I fished Maria out of the mud and gave her a bottle of peanut butter to lick—the bottle was empty; it had been empty since a month ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child my mother had shown a tendency for drawing and mud sculpture and could still amuse us with her speedy recreations of a popular cartoon woodpecker. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He moved back into the river—where the mud stopped him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, as I sank deeper into all this mud, I would realize how much of his success Bodega owed to Nazario and his connections at City Hall. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

For months at a time, James entertained these pale creatures, their white buggies traversing the mud tracks that led to the great house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s on his way. At least he said he was on his way. If he don’t fall flat on his face in a mud puddle or something.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning shimmers with fallen rain, but despite the mud on the road, we make good time. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plug and I battled through the gumbo mud to the fence line. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The servants cooed, wiping mud from the woman’s skirts and suede shoes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He rode past a banner planted in the mud, one of Stannis's fiery hearts, and chopped the .staff:in two with a swing of his axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the crisp beauty conceals fallen trees and washed-out trails, hillsides treacherous with mud and debris. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He came running onto the field in his perfectly clean, mud- free uniform to kick the extra point that would tie the game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to wash,” Harry told Bill, looking down at his hands, still covered in mud and Dobby’s blood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I looked through the clear water and saw the tracks of mussels in the mud. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks were scratched and bleeding, her lips were swollen, her clothes were torn, her hair stuck out in all directions, and on top of this she was streaked with mud. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But today the river was fairly low and the mud had dried so that it was cracked and cakey. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another foot stomps on his back and pushes his face into the mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time was a tricky thing—as slippery as mud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jojo made as if to fling the mud ball at his sister, but aimed for the third graders in front of him instead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The column of smoke was thick as mud. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Actually, I’d noticed the same foot movement myself, but what had struck me was that each time he stamped the foot back down again, flecks of mud flew up around his shins. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Militantly resentful of slavery, he joined the Union Army to kill southern whites; he waded in icy streams; slept in mud; suffered, fought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very blond in the sunlight, once the mud and blood had been washed away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The very air people breathed was somehow permeated with mud—nostrils grew clogged; ranchers hawked out great brown globs from their throats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as the horses slogged through the mud, Seabiscuit dogging and taunting until Kayak pinned his ears and abruptly quit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He landed a glancing blow on the man's cheek, before finding himself facedown in the dirt, his face being slammed into the mud, with the wind knocked out of him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf turned white as a sheet when Major Major reported to him in California with bare feet and mud- caked toes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I dig my feet deeper into the mud. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Luna curved around the mud pot and followed the rocks into where the village used to be. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Our honeymoon was meant to be restful, a low-key road trip in Northern California, involving wine, sleep, mud baths, and good food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We learn that things were one way, something happened, and then things were another way: On Monday peasants toiled in the mud for feudal kings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both Seven and Valley landed with a thud on the hard ground on the other side of the Cursed Forest mud trap—scared but alive. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I plastered the chula, the small stove on which we cooked, with fresh mud. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and pushed forward, trying as hard as I could to drag my left leg up and out of the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the years passed and the town developed, a quick solution to the water and mud problem was needed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The school could have been buried in a mud slide. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Roz was crusted with mud and grit, so she gave herself another good cleaning, but that only revealed her dents and scratches. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jay jammed the stick down into the mud next to my heel. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As we tried to come out of it the tires whined, kicking up fresh splatters of mud, and we fell back into it with a jolt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My knees hit the mud at the bottom of the marsh, splashing through the standing water left by the floods and the last hard rain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I can see its worm heart, which isn’t the shape of a heart, its central artery pumping worm blood, its digestive system, which is full of mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They tend the well, and make sure that the roots of Yggdrasil are covered with mud and cared for. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And the Amazon basin, essentially an astoundingly large river valley made of deposited mud, has almost no stone, so archaeologists wouldn’t even find that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Clods of mud filled the old sword gashes in the ghoul’s grey skin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thick, black mud covered them completely—it was even inside their ears. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

While our parents talked, Joey muttered to me, “Check it out. Some of these geeks still have mud on them.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only as we were whacking the mud off our boots by the huts where the sports gear's kept did Mr. McNamara remember the three boys he'd sent to the bridge over forty minutes ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Winters, with steam puffing from her mouth, she’d worn mud boots, a greatcoat, and a scarf over her head firmly knotted below her heavy chin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t even deserve the mud,” he yelled over his shoulder. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He lay on his side with his face half in mud. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a creature a layin’ down there, but I’m blowed if it’s fish or fowl, there’s so much mud and dust plastered on it,” whispered the hedgehog. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Beneath broken walls of dried mud, riders galloped back and forth, swinging their long whips as they herded the survivors from the smoking rubble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Stars exploded out the top of my head and all of my words and all of my rememberies followed them up to the sun, burning to ash that floated back and settled in the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was smoke, clatter, mud, and confusion, as if an army were massing for an assault on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or rather I am dragged downward, into the layers of this place as into liquefied mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It occur to either of you that maybe the guy doesn’t want his friend’s name dragged through the mud any more than you do?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No mud this time, despite last week’s rain—ground’s all frozen solid. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At home, Minli washed her face and hands and feet; and even though all the water in the basin turned brown, she still felt like she was covered in mud. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He worked along the edge, half swimming, half pushing along with his feet in the mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the market closed, I was shaking so hard I dropped my bundle of baby clothes in a mud puddle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Booth’s pants and jacket are spattered with mud. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stood with his wet socks glued to the sandy mud. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d crutched over field and woods, through mud and gravel, up hills and down rock faces, over stone walls and under fences. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I walked right out of my boots this morning on my way to milk Violet, the mud was that thick. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The gown was too long and the hem was caked with dried mud. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the mud nest we made for the cardinal, all those years ago, and wonder if it’s still there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was a horrid patch of mud on the beautiful lawn. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun appears butter-yellow and so warm it coaxes tulips out of the crusty mud. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, look at that mud! Look at it!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the mud by a fallen log were three cigarette butts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As hard as we try to keep our thoughts out of the old ways, the old patterns, the old ruts, any little jog or jerk will send them right back down into the mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The girls struggled in the mud, fighting the pull as it sucked them farther down no matter what they did. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The little river in Amari’s village had smelled of mud and of the animals that used it as a gathering place to drink the water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was rutted in sticky red mud, and Robert had to put the truck in low gear and gun it to cross the flats by Prairie Dog hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the birds were done, Mama used a stick to roll the ball of birds from the fire, and then she cracked open the baked mud. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If no one was around to see him, my older brother would help me carry the heavy pails of mud from the pond to plaster our walls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as they were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not been noticed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the narrow wooden bridge over the Rio Grande, chugging through a swarm of olive green and russet-colored swallows that had mud nests under the bridge, and started the bumpy climb out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his right foot out of the mud with a squelch and swung it over his Nimbus Two Thousand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I walked around it, I saw golden kernels everywhere, ground into the mud by tires and boots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But Aron here, looking helplessly at him, was a lump of soft mud in his hands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mutt had an ice cream wrapper stuck to his back paw like a shoe; his other paws were covered in mud. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Heavy rains washed the outside mud plaster off their house, and he was too feeble now to mix up fresh plaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body lay partly wedged under a layer of mud beneath the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much for talking with Pa. I’d made him so mad he’d rather slop around in the mud and the rain than talk to me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My school had only a small building, which was made of mud bricks and a tin roof. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She oinked several times and pushed the nearest piles carefully out of her way before rolling onto her back and rocking back and forth, a pig gleefully wallowing in mud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I stand on the mud mountain with my Union Jack hanging slack from its stick. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the apex of my arc I saw the raised plow blades behind, the corkscrewing metal covered with mud, and then the race was over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Valley struggled to her feet, slipping in the mud as Thorn got up and helped Seven do the same. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A pitted alley beside it led to a sheet-metal gate into a rear yard, where a lean-to shed stood crazily over a floor of frozen mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not so painful as it had been on the mountainside, for here he could apply handfuls of cooling, soothing mud to the wound. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His very first blow took a stable-lad from Fox- wood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Our deracinated feet stomped along in the mud. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were construction projects going on as people built barricades in the mud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the end of the season it may have been streaked with mud and grass, but it was never striped. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The soft brown mud felt good between her toes and helped to soothe her blisters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Matthias stared in horrified fascination at the broad slimy path that had been left in the mud by the snake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He found it, sunk to the eyebrows in mud, after an eight-hour horseback ride from the nearest town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As clear as Milagro mud, he added in afterthought, and, despite the tense situation, Herbie almost caught himself in a ridiculous smile. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she grabbed my left leg and, with what I assumed was Jesus-powered strength, slowly dragged it up out of the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The strip of mud between the water and the bank narrowed, even though it was still low tide. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered making mud pies with Lysa, the weight of them, the mud slick and brown between her fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Parslow the butler was kept busy clonking the mud off shoes as the children ran into the house from playing in the Sandwalk, riding ponies from the stable, having games of croquet and ball. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been wearing the same clothes since Wednesday night, and they are now spattered with mud from his thirty-five-mile ride this morning. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the sucking mud and crawled out like some prehistoric creature from an ancient lagoon just as Mami and my sisters and brothers came running. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I picked moss out of my hair and tried in vain to brush the mud from my pants, but succeeded only in smearing it, making me look like some bog creature vomited from the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Soon they came to a deep gash in the earth, from which rose the scents of water and of things that grew in rich mud. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of what I judge to be his body is actually under a layer of mud and plants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were streaks of grass and black mud on his face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At a place where the undergrowth ended and the papyrus began—the water’s edge in winter, now a stretch of mud—he stopped beside a spreading patch of some low, green plant. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I now had all four limbs stuck in the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As Mabinty Bangura, I danced on my bare toes in the mud of the rainy season, disturbing the breeding mosquitoes, who would rise up in anger and bite me—bringing malaria. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floors of Rael’s and the Pilar Cafe became coated with mud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ancient valet, Johnny Mitchell, bent over him, his tears falling onto Tommy’s cheeks as he gently sponged the mud and blood away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood next to the coach for the rest of the game, mud all over me, blood pouring out of my nose, tears pouring out of my eyes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The foot soldiers could sleep in the mud. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His snot was mud and it covered his mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled the hairs from her head and dropped them to the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole dug with his fingers and brought mud up to smear onto his swollen neck and face. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Shuffled back to last in heavy traffic and carried hopelessly wide on the first turn, Seabiscuit slipped through the mud, but still passed eight horses to finish second. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was, Tommy must have been sitting on the ground earlier, because there was a sizeable chunk of mud stuck on his rugby shirt near the small of his back. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the muddy path beaten to black mush by many feet, and Kate’s feet standing far to the side out of the mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Cordelia lives farther east than I do, in a region of houses even newer than ours, with the same surrounding mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Percy sprawled at her feet, coughing and spitting mud. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Make me some bandages or we die,” and, with that, he rolled onto the ground, tore off his burning clothes and set to work caking mud onto the deep wound in his shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a black ’dobe street, deep shining mud in winter and hard as rutted iron in summer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not a good rider even in fair weather, and six days of rain had made the ground treacherous, all soft mud and hidden rocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before I said a word, Alhaji was already rubbing mud on his face, using a combination of saliva and some of the water from his backpack to wet the mud. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His boots are coated with mud, and he is unshaven. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is melting from the lawns; mud reappears on the floors, at school, in the kitchen at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited there, holding the vine rope steady, easing Kira through the mud and up the bank. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

These clues are tire tracks, a Diet Coke can where it doesn’t belong, stumps and branches, and mud. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a splattering thud he hit the mud and rolled off his broom. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Their hands and arms got very dirty playing in the mud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud was drying in the deeply rutted roadway, but Lyddie did not watch her feet. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, wearing only my undershorts, and streaked head to foot with mud like one of those lost guys from the Amazon rainforest, I went in to break the news to Mom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m . . . here . Harry panted, skidding to a halt in the mud and accidentally splattering Fleur’s robes. “Where have you been?” said a bossy, disapproving voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The rest of the picture was divided neatly into little farm plots, each with its mud hut, each with its creaking well. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Malfoy states that he was standing talking to Weasley, when a large amount of mud hit him in the back of the head. How do you think that could have happened?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After four years of eating bug-infested rations, sleeping in cold and damp tents, and slogging night and day through thickets and mud, American men had had enough of rough pursuits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunbird’s mud flap, flecked bloody green by the wetlands massacre, was impossible to miss. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Torrents of rain, miles of mud and gravel. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By careful watching, she was able to distinguish the dark brown fur of a muskrat, near the burrow, though they were the same color as the mud along the bank. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold, except for the heat of mud underneath. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

William sighs, stands up, and brushes the mud from his enormous behind. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

My glasses were so caked with mud that I could no longer see anything clearly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought it must be ten times as large as Pentos, a vastness without walls or limits, its broad windswept streets paved in grass and mud and carpeted with Wildfiowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They helped me sit up and tried to get the mud off me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They pull ashore and touch soft, slippery mud. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike “The Blue Danube” of Strauss’s waltz, this deep water was mud brown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes were down at the heels and spattered with old mud. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The path around the island was slippery, but their feet were used to walking in mud. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes the rain stops, though, the sun comes out, the birds start to sing again—all those worms oozing up through the wet mud. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair to the chicken, Pong's skin was so wrinkled and white from lying in the soggy mud that it did look like a maggot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The mud oozed up into our boots, into our clothes, into our skins. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chickens laid eggs that had two shells, the outer one of mud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park is all dead grass, and puddles of mud. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After burying the lifeboat with branches, Tyson and I followed Annabeth along the shore,, our feet sinking in red mud. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew everything about building houses, he knew how to mix mud and straw just right to make strong adobes that would not crumble. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zu and I navigated around an RV that was now on its side, following a path of deep footsteps in the mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Little by little, we all sat down in the mud. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Bob slashed through the monstrous blister, which burst in a geyser of hot golden mud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dry mud caked his tawny hair and grimed his face. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He started to work the raft out of the mud and float it free when he thought of something. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Said getting him to finish something was like pushing mud. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A car, trying to get away, was spinning its tires, stuck in the mud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a roughly built log cabin with mud plastered into the cracks, and there was one door and one square window covered with greased paper. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she was being pushed up and out of the mud and was flying in the air. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Beaver asked Roz to dig a trench here, to place large stones there, to arrange logs this way, to smear mud that way. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wet mud under his shoes made rude, sucking sounds. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I tried to imagine what it would look like as a lake, with no fence built into the mud to keep the city safe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boys, slapping their bare feet in the mud, were listening. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was only a little short of biblical, with barking, gurgling, screaming dogs, swearing, gurgling, screaming fisherman, and a thrashing, tearing, panicking doe in a mess of rolling canoe, mud, and water.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And the smell of mud, mold, and wet rot was thick enough to stick. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Headmaster might have the right to talk about Neel’s failures, but how dare he drag Baba’s name through the mud? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We walked up the dirt road past a few leafless poplars along a row of broken mud walls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Victor staggered back to his feet and stood at the penalty line, the captain of the War Eagles, mud coating his entire body, blood streaming down from a cut over his eye. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go up the stairs to my room, where I wash the paint off my face and the mud off my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the shallows rinsing mud from her legs while Ishmael filled in the hole. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seven was excited to watch the match and get a break from fighting monstruos and getting stuck in cursed mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The fiddler crab, that small and picturesque crustacean whose hordes move over mud flats or sand flats like grazing cattle, has no defense against the sprayers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hello, my children. Please step into your new home, and wipe your feet outside so no mud gets indoors.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The mud mountains are on our side of the road. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He surveyed the dusty barnyard in front of him, the ugly ruts of dried mud where tractors and trucks had left their tracks. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, this ball had bounced in eight inches of muddy water, and the spare tire, under the cab, had been let down into the mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stood, an engorged leech fell into the mud and lazily wriggled away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't leave footprints in the mud!" he warned. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The mud was too heavy, and it was sucking them both under. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sad priests’ voices muffled by mud and wood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they fell to all fours and plunged their faces into the stew and the mud. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hazel wiped the ice and mud from her face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then Ma hears the slush of mud as a soldier moves his position. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the ground was thick black mud, but that seemed to be the price you paid for burn morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You ended up dying in a mud bank. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then she uses her cane to knock a clump of dried mud off one of his mismatched shoes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the highway to wipe the mud off the windshield. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boards were rickety, but they were better than oozing down into the mud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a legend about Missouri River mud where we used to live. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They throw mud at me, claiming it will darken my ugly white skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. What if it rains, and mama is lost in the mud?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Runnels of water were trickling through the arch from the uphill side, and the bare earth was beginning to turn into mud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left his tennis shoes in the shelter and when he felt the sand turn to mud between his toes he kicked off the bottom and began to swim. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the delicious smell of meat cooking drifted through the air, everybody worked together, and soon we had a small house with mud walls and a thatched roof and a garden for vegetables nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, dear. Layers upon layers of history here, but it’s nothing compared to Greece. Athens was old when Rome was a collection of mud huts. You’ll see, if you survive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The black tones it down, but I feel a layer of mud would definitely help. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli remembered the two children fighting over their piles of mud as she had left her village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a bit longer,” my father would say, his body covered in mud from head to toe. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cap reached up and brushed at a clump of mud that had penetrated his faceguard. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each man into his hole and covered him with the wet mud. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Those who fought battles comfortably within their homes or newspaper offices had more than enough mud to spare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the chemical remained in the mud of the pond bottom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had a facial massage and a mud pack, and around the edges he had his nails manicured, and he had his shoes shined. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A trail of blood was left on the mud where the creature crawled. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the fifth hole, I got to the same level deep and when I stomped, the shovel slipped all the way in, and my foot sank a bit into mud. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I imagined going into the garden, where Jaja was on his knees, digging out a clump of mud with my fingers and eating it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mud shifted, the leaves stirred, the smell of overripe green things enveloped her and announced the beginnings of her very own howl. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were slightly wet, but her face was scrubbed clean of the mud that had caked it before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I knew every game trail in the thick canebrakes, and every animal track that was pressed in the mud along the riverbanks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that Father had, been right: they looked tired and wet and cold and dirty from the mud that came up from the bottom on the nets. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled to its base through the mud and rain and placed my hand against its rough body once more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room was a large fish tank that was only a quarter full, but the bottom was covered with rocks and dark mud that clouded the water. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no mistaking the sound of a nun who was equal parts concerned, annoyed, and frustrated that she’d have to wade into the mud herself to save one of her more stupid students. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When their arms were full, they headed back to the camp, and Kaede said with a grin, “You’re covered in mud.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Horizontal, soundless except for a peculiar boom, tangible, infinite, the astounding dimensional weight of it streamed across the mud. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that week, Henry came home covered in mud and oil but happy as hell. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snow around was splashed with red and trodden down for yards into a crimson mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Eleyne's anchor chain was intact, and that great old mud hook was still down, a hundred pounds of iron with spear-shaped flukes wide as a shovel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mud baby, molded into form by creative children on a rainy day, soon to run back into the loose earth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just mud, the plants, the base of the rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Martian desert lay broiling like a prehistoric mud pot, waves of heat rising and shimmering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor agreed to come to Cange, negotiating the twelve-hour trip through mud and streams, for a fee of several thousand dollars, a large sum in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Petra Cotes had seen them die in clusters and she was able to butcher only those stuck in the mud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I walked with one sandal and one bare foot, but soon the mud claimed my second sandal too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran out to the porch and waved her hands over her head as if she were chasing off an attack of mud wasps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps; he kicks mud off the running board, cleans the windows and windshield. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The links would emerge dripping wet, some glistening with mud, link by link by link, until the whole great chain stretched taut. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Feathers brushes mud off a metallic rock with her gloved hand and places it in a collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The horsemen pounded on, churning the snow on the road into mud. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in the mud, shocked, for a moment, then he climbed to his feet and lunged toward his son. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The river of mud whisked her downhill, slamming her into rocks and dragging her through bushes and sweeping her straight toward a cliff! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the homes had flat roofs and were made of burned brick, some of mud the same dusty color as the mountains that ringed the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A single warning creak; then there they all were, waist deep in mud and carp, laughing, their shoes unglued. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty track workers slogged over the course, sponging the mud out of the puddles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wore a starched clean shirt, and there was never a spot of mud on his shoes. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“The consensus was that Seabiscuit should not have been started in the mud,” wrote Oscar Otis, echoing the words of many columnists. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mud had a frozen brown crust and the cordgrass was weighed down by ice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually comes home looking like he’s taken a mud bath—at least that’s what my mother says. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She took some of his weight as they walked toward the great mud temple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I scooped it up quickly from the river’s edge, but as I stood up the pieces slid apart and fell like knives into the mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako trudged back into the field and began placing more seedlings into the mud. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Both the soldiers and the villagers have on black pajama clothes and red-and-white checkered scarves with mud stains on their bottoms and knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a woman in a brown burqa carried a large clay pot on her shoulder, down a rutted path toward a string of mud houses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the dead Vietnamese soldier, his body sprawled out in the mud, was no longer a human being. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the kid with the pass share my umbrella as we crossed over the ocean of mud and ducked into the building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daylight they were a mess, splashed up to their necks in mud, covered in burrs and tendrils. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It left behind a vast expanse of mud, seaweed, shells, and the occasional, very unlucky jellyfish. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At last they loaded the deep-sea lead, sounded—and brought up black mud! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stuck at the bottom of the pond, only this time the mud wasn’t letting go.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m kneeling now, knees in the mud, hand at my throat, still trying to get my breath. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It boiled streams and cooked mud and sent waterfalls disappearing into deep pits, only to reappear miles away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Berkeley scientists arrived to find Y-12 mired in mud, chaos, and rock-bottom morale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She is covered with mud and leaves are in her hair. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was flat against the mud wall behind the nest like a picture hanging up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I polish my good shoes as best I can; although they’re scuffed from my walk to the pasture, most of the dried mud comes off. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he got them to the side of the road, where they sat and shivered and spit up mud clods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It rained every day, and we found ourselves working up to our necks in sticky brown mud. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Buckthorn drew his head and paws out of the hole and rubbed the mud off his face. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go straight to my room, not caring that I’m tracking water and mud through the house. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of each plot stood a hut made of mud or cement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked at some flea-bite scabs on my calves, which were split and caked with dried mud and hardened blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, upon considering, I concluded that she had looked like a mud baby, lying on the white satin of her velvet coffin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks more like a lump of mud to me,” Chuck Muckle said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tipped the mud pot and filling his bowl handed it to him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse was superb, skipping over the mud to win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone quieted to see this lump of rags, shuffling forward, his weight leaning on a gnarled stick, his legs bent like bows and caked with mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I made a hut out of mud, palm fronds, and ripped-up swimwear. And walking in the sand is toning my calves while I work!” said Miss Arkansas. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a bit of mud to you, boy, but to me it’s an extra hour scrubbing!” shouted Filch, a drip shivering unpleasantly at the end of his bulbous nose. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Turner was glad all the mud had frozen and there was just a patina of frost. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It's hard to get past that, but then he scrapes the mud from his Baltimore soles before he enters a cabin with a dirt floor and I don’t hate him much anymore. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound was littered with moons, one in each mud puddle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cattle backed into the far left corner of the barrier; their eyes were wide and frightened, and some were pawing the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farquar spat on his own fingertip, rubbed the tip in dirt, and with the resulting mud—“Move”—made a mark on Palmer’s arm where Beans’s finger had been. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph started to brush off the mud, but Albert yelled, “Joseph, what are you doing? Stop!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Koontz joined them, incredulously surveying the damage that Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the marsh grass part, and two other brown bodies trampled through the grasses and mud. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He hastily buried the ndoro in the mud at the edge of the pool and plunged the bucket into the dark water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

People still live in mud houses with grass roofs there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She went barefoot, avoiding barnacles, picking her way along the flats with the tide drawn out and the salt chuck grass sleek against the mud in sun-dried fans. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She felt one shoe come off, deep in the mud. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My one pair of shoes is not up for this; the autumn mud works the muscles in my thighs until I come to the dry meadow path. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He yawned, scratched his ear then rolled lazily on a patch of dried mud. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too close to make out what it said, so I started to back across the frozen mud ruts of the perimeter road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cannoneer, who was cleaning mud from his costume, was the first to notice our entrance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

These stone walls keep clumpy mud and rocks from falling on the paths and the peoples. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Joey and I dug our heels into the mud about halfway down toward the bottom of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always Mr. Muhammad instructed us, “Go after the black man in the mud.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boards began to come apart, and the loose mud under the walkways began to slide toward that giant bathtub drain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked; it missed me, but whammed Maria on the head and sent her plunging headlong into the mud. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the back door and walked over to the side of the mud road. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Clara exclaimed at the sight of her daughter, who was covered with mud and blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She always wants the grass on the other side, and she always gets stuck in the mud.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slender and sinuous, olive green, mahogany red, scarlet, and ash, they were weighted with broad, gleaming leaves and velvet berries and shaded the beach stones and mud flats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In order to help you, I am sending you this jar of mud from the Missouri River. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As soon as the sun began to set, Minli’s parents sent her home to make dinner and to rest while they continued to work in the thick mud. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In rain any street not paved with macadam oozed a fragrant muck of horse manure, mud, and garbage that swelled between granite blocks like pus from a wound. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Outside, wagons and riders were still pouring through the castle gates, and the yard was a chaos of mud and horseflesh and shouting men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Muddauber wasps build columned nests of mud under the eaves of houses and stock them with insects on which their young will feed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sliding around the sludge, I tried to grab Frankie by the waist, only to have him spin out of my hands and land with a splat in a larger mud puddle. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yuk,” she said smiling and began to run for the old Perkins place, that beautiful, graceful run of hers that neither mud nor water could defeat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They washed the mud off themselves, from when they had fallen down the bank, and then raced about, lifting their knees very high, splashing and yelling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone had grown so quiet that you could hear the soft: thump where it fell into the mud. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He's scrubbed the mud from his skin and changed into clean fatigues. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time the cart was loaded, Tree-ear wore mud like a second skin. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As I might have expected, my shoes came off in the suction of mud and water, and I tramped after my friend in my drooping socks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In spite of their ready answers, the sport had been one-sided, as Kit could see by the daubs of mud that stained the rough boards of the stocks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then Paul pointed out to me, “That young fellow just coming with the last bicycle is the other pilot, the one who got stuck in the mud west of here. You probably know each other?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The silence is broken when I push myself out of the car, past Darma, and stomp down the hill through the mud toward the farm gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Father says Anatole is “our only ally in all this,” which is as clear as mud to me, but apparently Father’s say-so was a good enough reason to invite him to dinner. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They declined to invent the wheel because it looked like nothing but trouble in this mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d given up trying to keep them spotless and they were speckled and streaked with hard mud. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine insisted that I wash off the bog mud before sitting down to dinner, and asked Emma to run me a bath. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I can see her now, her ruined lace in the mud, pale arms exposed, reaching up, rising up as though she were clawing her way out of the grave. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His boots were caked with mud, his hat was too small. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She found Arya on the banks of the Trident, trying to hold Nymeria still while she brushed dried mud from her fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Christ, look at this mud,” said Francis as we bounced through yet another pothole, brown spray striking the window with a thick rataplan. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They walk a short way down an adjoining passageway, layers of mud sticking to Bailey’s formerly shiny shoes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Amarante surveyed the damp earth, the glistening green bean plants, the faint yellow irrigation foam left around the stalks, the mud cracking softly in some freshly watered rows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the pasture, my good shoes become completely coated with mud. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spat in the dirt to make red mud, then patted this onto the walls until they were covered. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his smile is the same whether in mud or in the Capitol and when I see it, I take about three steps and fling myself into his arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The mud wall, short and pocked with holes, enclosed the tiny house—which was really not much more than a glorified hut. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was not one of those fussy mothers who got upset when you came home dirty or played in the mud or fell and cut yourself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a camplire on the mud, steering well clear of it, for we saw that men in uniform tended it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z