| The JACK IN THE MUD, evolved from the deep-sea tube worm, will bury itself in the sand, leaping out to seize diving Moonracers in its massive jaws and suffocate them for food. |
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| She went to the Common to walk Max but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud. |
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| These sand and mud flats carry an ancient pilgrims' path, and in more recent times, a modern causeway. |
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| Examples of contact soil layers include sand bottoms, rocky outcrops, coral, and bay mud. |
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| When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds. |
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| Depending on the composition of the mud, it can be referred by many different names, including slurry, mortar, plaster, stucco, and concrete. |
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| Mud that is mostly clay, or a mixture of clay and sand may be used for ceramics, of which one form is the common fired brick. |
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| Mud can provide a home for numerous types of animals, including varieties of worms, frogs, snails, clams, and crayfish. |
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| A mud bath is a bath of mud, commonly from areas where hot spring water can combine with volcanic ash. |
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| Participants run a distance of 3 miles to as long as 10 miles, while crawling through mud bogs, and battling other obstacles. |
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| Shallow species live among sponges, stones, or coral, or under the sand or mud, with only their arms protruding. |
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| Scallops can be found living within, upon, or under either rocks, coral, rubble, sea grass, kelp, sand, or mud. |
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| The surface mud of a pond, ditch, or lagoon will almost always yield some diatoms. |
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| In the winter months, turtles living at higher latitudes can hibernate for a short period in the mud. |
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| The majority of species eat small invertebrates picked out of mud or exposed soil. |
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| Many waders have sensitive nerve endings at the end of their bills which enable them to detect prey items hidden in mud or soft soil. |
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| You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without Wellingtons? |
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| Earthquakes, hot springs, fumaroles, mud pots and geysers often accompany volcanic activity. |
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| The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. |
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| They are covered with a mixture of gravel, sand, and mud, and the trenches are used by fish as spawning grounds. |
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| Over geological time, this organic matter, mixed with mud, got buried under heavy layers of sediment. |
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| Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats, are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers. |
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| Mudflats may be viewed geologically as exposed layers of bay mud, resulting from deposition of estuarine silts, clays and marine animal detritus. |
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| Marshes contain an abundance of herbaceous plants while the sediment layers consist of thin sand and mud layers. |
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| It is made up of very extensive salt marshes, major intertidal banks of sand and mud, shallow waters and deep channels. |
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| The plan failed, not least because the banks were built using mud dredged from the salt marsh, which then salinated stored fresh water. |
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| This clam lives in sand and mud and is found in intertidal or subtidal zones in bays and estuaries. |
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| Loons use a variety of materials to build their nests including aquatic vegetation, pine needles, leaves, grass, moss and mud. |
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| Food is also obtained by searching the ground, often on the shore among sand, mud or rocks. |
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| As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom. |
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| It appears that in cold winters wood work stopped and partly completed timber work was buried in mud to prevent it drying out. |
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| Beach rebuilding is the process of repairing beaches using materials such as sand or mud from inland. |
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| During the ice ages permafrost blocked the caves with ice and frozen mud and made the limestone impermeable. |
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| The same process can form mud volcanoes on the surface where they broke through upper layers. |
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| When these organisms die, their skeletons sink to the bottom, forming a thick layer of calcareous mud that may lithify into limestone. |
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| Choose an appropriate substrate for the paludarium. Fine sand, mud, or a mix of both is recommended. |
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| The Navajo people ate prairie dog baked in mud, while the Paiute ate gophers, squirrels, and rats. |
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| Mud, parabiosis means that he is processing young blood and transfusing it. |
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| Coral reefs can easily be damaged by violent wave action, and can be destroyed when a hurricane dumps sand or mud onto a reef. |
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| Sites of venting may take the form of mud volcanoes or seeps and are often associated with chemosynthetic communities. |
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| These diamictite rocks are composed of finely ground mud, containing a jumble of faceted pebbles. |
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| The artifacts are in an excellent state of preservation, having been protected by anaerobic mud. |
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| Two other species of small turtles are the American mud turtles and musk turtles that live in an area that ranges from Canada to South America. |
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| The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places. |
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| The rising waters deposited silt and mud onto the original land surface, covering and preserving it. |
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| Only one third of the Mary Rose was intact and she lay deeply embedded in mud. |
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| It contains important habitats, including saltmarsh, reedbeds, mud flats and sand dunes. |
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| The harbour is very shallow in places and has extensive mud flat and salt marsh habitats, as well as muddy and sandy shores and seagrass meadows. |
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| Another possibility is that they are secretory, as they produce an oily substance which appears to flush mud off. |
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| As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other. |
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| Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto. |
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| After several dampenings and even though it was only on my face for an hour, I was surprised at how heavy the mud pack had become. |
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| But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy. |
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| Simply gaum them all over with thick claybank mud and throw them into the fire. The clay will bake hard. |
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| I waded out, my hair streaming water down my back, my toes gooshing deliciously in the mud. |
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| Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants. |
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| In the Neolithic, mud brick houses started appearing that were coated with plaster. |
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| They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud. |
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| Ye had to watch no to step in mud or a puddle or else in jobby, dogs were aye doing jobbies, or else ye watched for broken glass. |
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| In the late 18th and 19th centuries people known as Mudlarks scavenged in the river mud for a meagre living. |
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| The burial of algae and bacteria below the mud of the sea floor during this time resulted in the formation of North Sea oil and natural gas. |
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| This resulted in large masses of organic material being buried under subsequent deposits such as shale formed from mud. |
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| The result was usually that such helpers got a liberal sprinkling of mud over their clothing. |
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| Shale is fine-grained rock made of silt or wet mud that has been lithified by compaction and cementation. |
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| Bangladeshi villages consist of thatched roofed houses made of natural materials like mud, straw, wood and bamboo. |
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| Builders could also place stones or thick mud layers at the foot of the stockade, improving the resistance of the wall. |
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| Engineers drove oak piles into the mud to provide a stable foundation, and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. |
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| These performers were soon followed in the style by acts including Roxy Music, Sweet, Slade, Mott the Hoople, Mud and Alvin Stardust. |
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| This was also the year of the mud, with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog. |
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| On Saturday 14 July 1928, when Great Britain met Australia in the second Test on a sea of mud at the Sydney Cricket Ground. |
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| Etymologically, the name of Bray comes from the Gaulish word braco, which became the Old French Bray, meaning marsh, swamp, or mud. |
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| This offensive opened with great promise for the Allies, before bogging down in the October mud. |
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| During this period, great accumulations of sand, gravel and mud were deposited further south in Wales, and these gradually consolidated. |
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| But there are traces, hoof marks of mombies are encrusted in the dried mud. |
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| For example, a person who lives in a home with a mud floor is considered severely deprived of shelter. |
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| Robert fell from the slipway into riverside mud, but continued without an overcoat until the end of his visit. |
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| We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mud room when we came in from the snow. |
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| I recently received a note from a young man named Austin who had encountered Spartan Race after trying a mud run put on by another promoter. |
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| When will we stop the political mud wrestling and begin to wrestle with the most potentially destructive force ever to challenge this Nation? |
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| Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. |
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| Many western sections of the wall are constructed from mud, rather than brick and stone, and thus are more susceptible to erosion. |
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| It consists primarily of the salt waters of the Oosterschelde, but also includes mud flats, meadows, and shoals. |
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| He also conceded that abar might come from the Gaelic eabar meaning mud or a swampy place. |
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| Caissons were used at locations that were either always under water, even at low tide, or where the foundations were to be built on mud and clay. |
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| It was then electrolytically refined and the anode mud exploited for the platinum and gold it contained. |
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| The channel continues inland south of Chester but its higher reaches have long since been infilled with sand, gravel and mud. |
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| North of the covert near Polygon Wood, deep mud smothered German shells before they exploded but they still caused many casualties. |
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| General William Birdwood later wrote that the return of heavy rain and mud sloughs was the main cause of the failure to hold captured ground. |
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| Heavy rain and mud again made movement difficult and little artillery could be brought closer to the front. |
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| One type of feeding behavior seen in bottlenose dolphins is mud ring feeding. |
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| Most eels live in the shallow waters of the ocean and burrow into sand, mud, or amongst rocks. |
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| I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,... and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office. |
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| The inner parts of this channel were filled by glacially derived sands and gravels long ago, and infilling by mud and silt has continued since. |
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| These were known as the North Slob and the South Slob from the Irish word slab, meaning mud. |
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| The tides and currents of the river frequently shift mud and sand in the harbour. |
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| Plant species diversity is relatively low, since the flora must be tolerant of salt, complete or partial submersion, and anoxic mud substrate. |
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| He was quite a bammy Glasgow guy who had hit on the idea of playing a Tolkienesque character who could turn things to mud with his magical finger. |
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| They store food for winter use by felling small trees and leafy branches in the autumn and immersing them in their pond, sticking the ends into the mud to anchor them. |
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| I also became frustrated with the stuff sack's built-in mud flap, which folds out of the burritolike bag to provide a dry working space, but mostly just got in my way. |
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| We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. |
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| Other animals, such as hippopotamuses, pigs, rhinoceroses, water buffalo and elephants, bathe in mud in order to cool off and protect themselves from the sun. |
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| Never does this confectionery mud actually contain real mud. |
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| Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience. |
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| Juveniles of Plateosaurus and other taxa of herbivores were too light to sink into the mud or managed to extract themselves, and were thus not preserved. |
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| You may find that in June it rains so hard the streets are filled with a foot of mud and the mosquitoes eat people alive, but in October the place is beautiful. |
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| The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise. |
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| An external fireplace from Ronaes Skae was constructed as a perimeter of stones surrounding a mud and clay hearth on which charred wood was found in a spoke pattern. |
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| This mode of locomotion overcomes the slippery nature of sand or mud by pushing off with only static portions on the body, thereby minimizing slipping. |
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| He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud. |
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| However, the groupings of animals present depend to a large extent on whether the seabed is composed of rock, boulders, gravel, sand, mud or even peat. |
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| Common frogs hibernate in running waters, muddy burrows, or in layers of decaying leaves and mud at the bottom of ponds or lakes primarily with a current. |
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| Bison roll in these depressions, covering themselves with mud or dust. |
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| Zostera often forms beds in bay mud in the estuarine setting. |
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| Most were simply hacked to death while completely stuck in the deep mud. |
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| A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corral where five scrubby horses with big heads stood looking solemnly at the horses passing in the road. |
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| When the deposition is in an estuary, the sediments are known as bay mud. |
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| They can be made to emerge by filling a jar with water and mud, wrapping it in black paper and letting direct sunlight fall on the surface of the water. |
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| The intertidal mud or sand flat habitat is continuous with many other habitats. Landward, it may be bordered by a beach, marsh, bulkhead, or stretch of riprap. |
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| They occupy a range of seafloors consisting of mud, sand, gravel or rocks. |
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| As the infantry waded through mud, they lost the creeping barrage. |
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| On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish. |
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| This assemblage is interpreted as a social group that was trapped in mud. |
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| One side of the head stuck out so it could dig into mud or sand. |
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| Active mud volcanoes tend to involve temperatures much lower than those of igneous volcanoes except when the mud volcano is actually a vent of an igneous volcano. |
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| Nonaccretionary forearcs may also be the site of serpentine mud volcanoes. |
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| The British experienced a stroke of luck in November 1939 when a German mine was dropped from an aircraft onto the mud flats off Shoeburyness during low tide. |
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| Rex, David Bowie, Sweet, Slade, Mud, Roxy Music and Gary Glitter. |
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| Many of the fortifications of the ancient world were built with mud brick, often leaving them no more than mounds of dirt for today's archaeologists. |
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| Hammond eventually freed himself from the mud, and Clarkson, upset for not being able to climb the riverbank after fording a small river, had to cut the Frontera in half. |
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| The festival was not hit by extreme weather, but high winds on the Wednesday delayed entry, and steady rain throughout Saturday turned some areas of the site to mud. |
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| Prior to this only campervans were allowed on site, caravans and trailers being banned in the early 1990s after a number were stuck in the mud and abandoned. |
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| Large numbers of eggs are deposited in holes dug into mud or sand. |
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| Like all anguillid eels, American eels hunt predominantly at night, and during the day they hide in mud, sand or gravel very close to shore, at depths of roughly 5 to 6 feet. |
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| Common bedding types include laminated sand, ripple bedding, and bay mud. |
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| The plants must be able to survive in wet mud with low oxygen levels. |
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| The first widely used auger dredges were designed in the 1980s by Mud Cat Dredges, which was run by National Car Rental, but is now a Division of Ellicott Dredges. |
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| These were all successful except for the landing at the Mouth of the Peiho in 1859, where Admiral Sir James Hope ordered a landing across extensive mud flats. |
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| The Russians lacked a quartermaster's department capable of keeping armies operating in Central Europe properly supplied over the primitive mud roads of eastern Europe. |
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| Mud can be made into mud bricks, also called adobe, by mixing mud with water, placing the mixture into moulds and then allowing it to dry in open air. |
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| The lobster had burrowed through thick mud deposits that had formed since the Solent flooded, and into the original surface of the cliff when the Solent was dry. |
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| The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties. |
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| In response, the Democrats cranked up their own mud machine. |
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