1 He felt much as does a man who, shod with well-polished boots, has just stepped into a dirty, stinking puddle.
2 Everywhere the same slovenliness, the same disorder, was displaying itself unadorned: the only difference being that a fresh puddle had formed in the middle of the village street.
3 A plump, dark-blue pigeon flew into the road, and hurriedly went to drink in a puddle near the well.
4 Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
5 The water was out, over miles and miles of the flat country adjacent to Yarmouth; and every sheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of little breakers setting heavily towards us.
6 That was the breadth of a puddle on the garden walk which he had evidently walked across.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 7 Connie especially felt a delight in putting the soft roots of young plants into a soft black puddle, and cradling them down.
8 With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 9 This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL 10 Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod.
11 But we could not follow, for we were losing the puddle of light behind us.
12 She did not even try to avoid puddles but stepped dully into them, dragging her heavy skirts after her.
13 The mud roads of a few days ago are powdery dust and the puddles beside them have hardened into lozenges of black sleek earth like cracked patent leather.
14 Monstrous tattered clouds sprawled round a forlorn moon; puddles and rocks glistened with inner light.
15 A steam rose from the horse as it splashed up the puddles.