It's roily from the muddy banks and cold from recent rains or snowmelt, and you think: Finally, spring. From Wordnik.com. [Trout Fishing MVP's--Nymphs and Wets] Reference
The sky is low and gray, the roily gray of sliding surf. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
The roily, rushing water of the river would aid Chambriss 'quest. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
That's Henderson: The intensity is always there; things get roily when he's around. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Rickey ... on Rickey] Reference
I had a little dog with me and we unthinkingly stepped in the spring making the water roily. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
I had started the day feeling so good and full of well-meaning intentions and now I felt all roily inside. From Wordnik.com. [Miz Pat Tackles The Duckling Killer « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Fishing in high, roily water; in low, clear streams; and in trout ponds and lakes each requires a different approach. From Wordnik.com. [Worms for Trout] Reference
The river was gradually losing its clear colour, for the sand-bars were beginning to "work out," or break, making the water quite roily. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
The horse sank out of sight below the roily surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
This water is so roily you can't see into it very deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans on the Missouri] Reference
To dream of milky or roily water means death or disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference
The roily water kept oozing in all around, and Bluejay was scornful. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned] Reference
How his roily thoughts would run clear; how the sediment would go downstream!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
He drowned his motor finally in fording a roily stream and abandoned the car. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing Gold] Reference
The water was not roily, but of a rich coffee-color, from the leachings of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
His own thoughts were as that roily pool where he had ducked the old man in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [In Exile and Other Stories] Reference
The long stone slides were glistening wet, and the brooks ran full-banked, noisy and turbulent and roily. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Rider] Reference
Alum is often used to cleanse roily water, two or three grains in solution, being sufficient for a quart. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
When they endeavored to lend a hand to the helpless seaman he had sunk beneath the surface of the roily stream. From Wordnik.com. [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference
Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water. From Wordnik.com. [Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward] Reference
A week of hot sunshine had filled the Toba River bank full of roily water when Hollister breasted its current again. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Places] Reference
He spurred his plucky little horse into the roily, turbulent flood, closely followed by the others as he had instructed. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
So by the end of the film they have no way to escape and choose to embrace death by jumping off a cliff into the roily sea. From Wordnik.com. [ApunKaChoice.com] Reference
In a little more than six hours we reached the Rio Puerco, and forded its roily, brackish current to a camping-place on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Captured by the Navajos] Reference
"We must hurry on down to-morrow, for, unless I am mistaken, this roily water of the Canoe means that the spring rise has begun earlier than it should.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
An hour more passed before Sergeant Cunningham and half a dozen privates of the infantry company marched down to the roily pool and stooped for a drink. From Wordnik.com. [Captured by the Navajos] Reference
The men all pointed out that the right-hand fork was roily, boiling, and rolling, exactly like the Missouri up which they had come, whereas the other fork was clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans on the Missouri] Reference
I stopped at a trout brook, which came down out of the mountains on the right, and took a few trout for my supper; but its current was too roily from the shower for fly-fishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
I knew you was all right, but them boys was certainly roily. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
We’ve been keeping up a nice speed, but the motion has been a little roily, as downwind sailing isn’t Ella’s Pink Lady’s strong point. From Wordnik.com. [True Spirit] Reference
No sunset, as there’s heavy cloud cover and poor visibility, but the light misty rain and big roily gray swell is just as lovely as any sunset. From Wordnik.com. [True Spirit] Reference
I’m just going to have to get used to roily, though, as a pretty big percentage of the voyage from here on is likely to be downwind—fast downwind sailing!. From Wordnik.com. [True Spirit] Reference
For fear you should get roily. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna] Reference
All along Kadiak, the roily waters told of reefs. From Wordnik.com. [Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward] Reference
Well faid, old F roily-face. From Wordnik.com. [The artifice: a comic opera. In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane] Reference
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