The yards are swept clean, expanses of sun-baked mud disturbed only by the odd chicken scratching up ochre-stained dust.

What he seems to be describing is an agricultural country that uses barns for threshing grain rather than the Mediterranean outside floor of sun-baked mud and manufactures a drink, possibly mead.

Two Scots and a sepoy lay on the sun-baked mud, their blood seeping into the cracks that crazed the bank.

Ancient mosques and houses of sun-baked mud or brick stood within sight of modern three-story buildings.

The pitches were described as consisting of "sun-baked mud that rashed and cut all unwary players, or several inches deep in heavy, black mud" Tom Richards would write:

He tramped along the sun-baked mud for perhaps a mile.

The shiny white coating did not make the sun-baked mud any less rough on the bare skin of his back.

She was in a large room, the walls of which were crudely but strongly built of uncut rocks, plastered with sun-baked mud.

The cellar was lined with jars of sun-baked mud from which rose the sickly sweet smell of fermenting honey.

His examination of it during the afternoon had shown him that it was only a flimsy affair of sun-baked mud on a foundation of thin, split bamboo canes strung together with string.