mudbank

Consider every molecule of air to be a mudbank in itself.

THE HEATHEN 2010

Consider every molecule of air to be a mudbank in itself.

THE HEATHEN 2010

It had been the foulest luck to run into those wild men in the jungle, and the infernal muggers - but if they hadn't chased us, we mightn't have fetched up on a mudbank under the walls of one of those petty Indian rulers who stayed loyal to the Sirkar.

Fiancée 2010

I remember taking a turn at the rudder, and splashing and straining in the water when we grounded on a mudbank in the dark.

Fiancée 2010

And sculpted into the opposing mudbank was a similar shape ...

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

The mudbank was empty - there was the great groove where the barge had been, but the brown stretch of water was unbroken to the wall of green on its far side; of the barge there wasn't a sign.

Fiancée 2010

And yet, I feel that the tide turned on that mudbank; at least, after a long nightmare, I can say that there followed a period of comparative calm, for me, in which I was able to recruit my tattered nerves, and take stock, and start planning how to get the devil out of this Indian pickle and back to England and safety.

Fiancée 2010

"Up, up, sir, for Christ's sake!" and he was half-dragging me through the slime towards the safety of a tangled mass of creeper on top of a mudbank.

Fiancée 2010

Then, as we travel more slowly through a shallow stretch of marsh, an alligator languidly lifts its body from its perch on a mudbank and slinks slowly into the water.

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On a mudbank a hundred yards ahead and to my right, shapes were moving - long, brown, hideously scaly dragons waddling down to the water at frightening speed, plashing into the shallows and then gliding out inexorably to head us off, their half-submerged snouts rippling the surface.

Fiancée 2010