mud crack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mud crack
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Who can calculate the future of the smallest trifle when a mud crack swells to an Amazon and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold?
From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett
Go up it till you come to a brush corral, there's two horses in there, an' a saddle an' bridle is cached in a mud crack on the west side.
From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
The girl saw that they were in a cavern formed by a mud crack whose walls had toppled together.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
Who can calculate the future of the smallest trifle when a mud crack swells to an Amazon, and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold?
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett
The coulees run hell-west an' crossways at their littlest end an' wind up in a mud crack.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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