mud

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According to Port Vale's official website,, external Spurs boss Terry Venables took one look at the pitch and told star midfielder Ossie Ardiles that he would "get lost in the mud".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

From these narrow scraps grew “The Star of Redemption,” an audacious 1921 book conceived under fire that asks what remains of love—both human and divine—after war has marched a continent into the mud.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

We were on a mud road, and I saw children, aged about 7 to 14, well dressed and walking to school.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Even Maekar’s political analysis cracks when confronted with the visual of Baelor standing in the mud with borrowed armor, fighting off Duncan’s foes, and of the assembled commons cheering for the hedge knight.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

The pipe rambled across past the mud dauber wasps’ nest to a hole in the chimney.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck