Fluent, personable and persuasive, only his Blair-like arts keep afloat a full-steam-ahead illusion when his ship has just run aground on a mudbank. |
Noble rivers have their own natural defects of swamp and mudbank. |
P'raps smash de launch, run ashore, or pile her up on a mudbank. |
The Lifeboat arrived on scene in moderate conditions in a South Easterly 4 to 5, to find the Yacht hard aground on a mudbank at the entrance to the Camplie River. |
When they were out of the water, Redbird picked up a stick and drew a little picture on the mudbank. |
To their rage and disappointment, the boats stuck on the mudbank just outside the stockades, which they only then discovered. |