"The ground is slippery to-day," he grinned, extending a hand to the unfortunate Tim, who lay on the sludgy, squdgy mud gasping like a recently-landed trout.
"War and the Weird"
Forbes Phillips R. Thurston Hopkins
And this morning, when our men rose from shell-holes and battered trenches and fields of upheaved earth to make this great attack, the rain fell still but softly, so that the ground was only sticky and sludgy, but not a bog.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It lay in sludgy messes in the pools of the stream and curled over the edges of the steep banks and coated the boulders; it lay its white command for silence upon the racing water.
"The Everlasting Whisper"
Jackson Gregory