The triaxial tests of sand and mucky soil have been done.
One of his main themes is the discord between lofty American ideals and mucky American reality.
The thick pearl-grey mist drifting off the river hung over the shuttered, close-packed buildings and the muddy, mucky lanes.
I trusted and valued that flicker of unease, and I wanted to feel it play out more, to see Donoghue go deeper into the mucky, messy territory of growth.
There are some softer accumulation horizon in the ox-bow lake and season river on the huge mucky soil of alluvial and lacustrine deposits in accumulation terrace around Dongting lake.