Two days' hard slog over half-frozen mud by horseback.

Two davs' hard slog over half-frozen mud by ponyback.

There were no tracks; Caris checked the small chips of wood which he had imbedded in the half-frozen mud of the threshold that morning and found them undisturbed.

A faint track ran under the trees along the clifftop and here the tracker pointed to signs of the passage of several horses-and mules, he insisted-in half-frozen mud.

I felt as though I'd been hollowed out and filled from the toes up with slushy, half-frozen mud.

Hamdi Shabiu walks through the half-frozen mud, down a road past burned Albanian houses, to Merita's grave.

The road itself was also a natural disaster, churned half-frozen mud, but somehow Gairloch mushed on.

Outside, two barefoot Italians dug a trench in half-frozen mud for Massimo Bartolini's swimming pool.

It was like pressing his way through half-frozen mud.

Inside it were trees, flowers and grass, outside the dirty snow, the endless rain, the grunting cars and the half-frozen mud of Mrs. Nolan's drab backyard.