The labyrinth of alleys sloped up the foothills, and the mud-mortar homes became denser, muddier, as the grade grew steeper.
The effect is intimate and exciting in places, though sometimes subjects are overwhelmed by their colossal size: a luna moth's delicate wings feel dense and muddy, and Fiona's dog looks a bit bovine.
The source is the lower Cretaceous Kazhdumi Formation of the eastern Dezful sag, and the seal is the muddy dense limestone of the Cenozoic Gurpi and Pebdeh Formations.
They could be woken up in the middle of the night an hour after the lights go out for a nocturnal ten-mile march through dense forests and muddy fields.
Before roads were built, vehicles had to find pathways through dense forests, brush or muddy fields.
Linguini with sweet cockles was very good, but three other dishes — a nice piece of sea bass spread with a muddy pesto; a dense, oily squid and squid-ink risotto; and a butterflied Cornish hen dotted with rubbery mushrooms — were simply disappointing.
But the French had overlooked the fact that digging through steep mountains of rock, clad with dense jungle and drowned by muddy rivers infested with deadly pests and diseases, was a lot harder and a lot more expensive than digging through the flat sandy beaches of the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
The path is often no more than a foot-wide muddy track through dense growth, climbing steeply down and up ravines to ford mountain streams.
Moving over steep, muddy ridges amidst dense, fetid jungle terrain the 2/7th found the going tough and by late May the 2/6th took over the drive towards Nassau Bay.
European powers engaged in a feverish race for wealth and glory blazed routes up muddy rivers and into dense forests that had been traveled only sporadically by humans before.
