mud-puddle

This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.

This Story Roberta 2011

This story is falling head-first into a mud-puddle.

This Story Roberta 2011

Once, I cared ... a lot ... maybe too much and it was shrugged off like some water splashed on to them by a car driving through a mud-puddle.

Falling: the opportunity, the choice Elizabeth McClung 2008

I am proud of this country - it takes the stand, as do I, that it is better to aim for the stars and hit the moon, than to aim for the mud-puddle and getting a bulls-eye.

Sound Politics: Politicians personal lives. A double standard? 2006

And by “exponential,” I was referring to the unfathomable progress that turned a mud-puddle into Paul Ham, Olympic gold medalist.

Thou shalt deny me thrice before the court crows « BuzzMachine 2005

She will nurse her dolls for broken limbs or sawdust hemorrhages, scolding them when they fall out of bed or do not eat their mud-puddle soup.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

She remembered when he had been a common little fellow, but a short time ago, sprawling in every mud-puddle, or wobbling uncertainly after the many strange alluring things in the streets.

Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling

Once there was a chance for Elmwood to make another touchdown, but Jack Fitch slipped and fell in a mud-puddle, the ball rolling out of his hands.

Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Allen Chapman

She would go around a rod to avoid a mud-puddle, or if she availed herself of the board laid down for the benefit of pedestrians, she never, as I was sure to do, stepped on one end, so the other came down with a splash.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

It has a canal, but the canal is a mud-puddle during one half the day and an empty ditch during the other.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various