The mud streaked them as he drank.

The mud and the water streaked the crimson fluid into a garish pattern across his body.

Tredwell considered the unshaven cheeks, the eyelids red rimmed from wine and cigars and lack of sleep, the mud streaked lightly on one side of the square jaw.

Damp hair and wet loafers, mud streaked across the left toe, missed when the shoes were wiped clean, were the only indications he'd recently been wielding a shovel in the dank and lonely wood.

The mud itself was brown and pasty green, streaked liberally with red where five big carcasses took their last wallow in the carefree postures of death.