Now they are parched with cracked mud.
I was parched, scratched, encrusted with mud — but triumphant.
Finally, I drank the last of my water and staggered across the rock like a sun-struck character out of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". I was parched, scratched, encrusted with mud — but triumphant.
Third Platoon and the company command element — exhausted, mud-caked and parched again — arrived at the outpost at about the same time.
Peetai is a village of mud-brown houses surrounded by parched fields.
Kangori, in Sar-i-Pol Sar-i-Pol Sar-i-Pol Provincee of mud-walled dwellisgs that seemodestlend seamlessly into the parched, unyielding earth.
Trench Foot Mud can be a big feature - but sometimes the site is so parched that thousands of gallons of water are sprayed on the land - and grateful festival-goers.
The ground was parched and crusty, but there was a nearby spot where water had pooled and created sticky mud.
BATAMDA, Egypt — One place to begin to understand why this parched country has nearly ruptured relations with its upstream neighbors on the Nile is ankle-deep in mud in the cotton and maize fields of Mohammed Abdallah Sharkawi.
Their homes are, essentially, graves for the living: pits carved by hand from the parched earth, 15 feet or so wide, 20 feet long, 5 or 6 feet deep, covered with mud-caked thatch and outfitted with a solitary wood platform for sleeping and small windows for ventilation.
