His long boots were Caked with mire and the fur was coming off the battered cap he held in one hand; his blue duck trousers were rent at one knee and a very old jacket hung over his coarse blue shirt.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Freed of their harness, they stood in the lee of a great gum, their flanks matted with the dust which had Caked with the run of sweat on them.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
I stumbled through the open door of my study, and in the nursery I saw those two babies there-lifeless, white and dry like mummies, and with twin holes in their necks that were Caked black with their own blood....
"Doom of the House of Duryea"
Earl Peirce