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it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.
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was and mud
It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.
Ramey reached out with the tire iron and dislodged a chunk of mud that was caked on the spare tire rack.
Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
mud was sometimes used as well as soap.
The viscous mud was ankle-deep, and in places great puddles spread across the road and reflected the murky light.
-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.
The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.
" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.
Between 1881 when the club was opened, and 1889, the dam frequently sprang leaks and was patched, mostly with mud and straw.
The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.
Then it was covered with logs and poles and then sealed by drit / mud / soil and ice and moss.
Before this, what is now the town centre was almost entirely tidal mud flats.
Thus, before the Aswan High Dam was completed in 1971, the White Nile watered the Egyptian stretch of the river throughout the year, whereas the Blue Nile, carrying seasonal rain from Ethiopia, caused the Nile to overflow its banks and deposit a layer of fertile mud over adjacent fields.
He was the deity of crafts ( gašam ); mischief ; water, seawater, lakewater ( a, aba, ab ), intelligence ( gestú, literally " ear ") and creation ( Nudimmud: nu, likeness, dim mud, make bear ).
The use of this wall and tower was likely for defence against flood water and mud flows from the nearby Jordan river.
The quarter was located there because of the abundance of clay mud carried over by the Eridanos River.
It appears that in cold winters wood work stopped and partly completed timber work was buried in mud to prevent it drying out.
The settlement was established with simple mud buildings and most of them had four internal subdivisions.
The solid foundation was made out of limestone blocks and mud bricks ; it was tall.
was and wet
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.
and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.
He was cold all right, and wet.
She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.
Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.
A `` wet herd '' was a herd of cattle made up entirely of cows, while `` wet stuff '' referred to cows givin' milk.
The terminology of the range, in speakin' of `` dry stock '' and `` wet stock '', was confusin' to the tenderfoot.
The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.
Something wet and hot was trickling on her wrists.
There was a wet spot -- she couldn't have been gone long ''.
Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.
A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.
It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.
When there was bridge at Edythe's house, the cards shuffled like wet graham crackers and the food probably was wet graham crackers.
Charlie forbore to mention that the wet was somewhat universal, Peony being less than weatherproof.
was and weather
The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.
The weather turned warmer and with it came better appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-color.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.
About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.
Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.
Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.
Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.
So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.
He then offered his own estimate of the weather, which was unenthusiastic.
She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.
Part of it was the weather, so foggy it would take me twice as long to get to the hospital.
Sometime earlier the weather had turned cold and it was snowing.
Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.
This was owing to bad weather, a lack of a government stimulus package, and the continuing effects of decreased agricultural subsidies by the Armenian government ( per WTO requirements ).
He was advised by them not to make the journey over to Fife because of weather conditions, but travelled anyway.
" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".
In 1961, Lorenz was using a numerical computer model to rerun a weather prediction, when, as a shortcut on a number in the sequence, he entered the decimal. 506 instead of entering the full. 506127.
The result was a completely different weather scenario.
This was carried out in worsening weather, and by the time the refuelling was complete and the call was made for the passengers to re-board the aircraft, the wintry showers had taken hold and snow had settled heavily on the runway and around the airport.
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