When it got too damp, they threw down coarse-woven grass mats to keep the mud down.

But Balaam looked at Shorty, "You keep the mud," he said, "and I'll give you thirty dollars for the horse."

He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it.

He had drawn on a pair of jack-boots over his shoes and stockings, to keep the mud off till the moment of action.

In places, plank had to be set up on edge to keep the mud out of the houses, which were lower than the road.

He kept the mud on his uniform and the epithet on his cheek.

The rain that fell almost daily, kept the mud knee-deep and the roads slushy.

Amalfi suspected that some rudimentary form of friction-field was keeping the mud in a state of stiff gel.