Roily

It's roily from the muddy banks and cold from recent rains or snowmelt, and you think: Finally, spring. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I had started the day feeling so good and full of well-meaning intentions and now I felt all roily inside. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If so, this gives credence to the comment from the senior author of the Chatham report, quoted in The New York Times article cited above, despite its pouring gasoline on the fire rather than oil on the roily waters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KANEKTOK RIVER Anglers willing to take a gamble on possible high and roily conditions may hit the jackpot for huge rainbows when Bristol Bay streams open June 8. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Also bring Glo Bug imitations, nymphs in various hues, black Bivisibles, Woolly Worms, and bulky, gaudy flies for roily water conditions. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The sky is low and gray, the roily gray of sliding surf. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

That's Henderson: The intensity is always there; things get roily when he's around. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Fishing in high, roily water; in low, clear streams; and in trout ponds and lakes each requires a different approach. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The roily, rushing water of the river would aid Chambriss 'quest. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

It would be easy for him to swim the thick brownish water, still roily from the storm, but he knew that Lura would not willingly venture in and he was certainly not going to leave her behind. ❋ Norton, Andre (1952)

Even with the snow it is more roily and bumpy than the worst sea ever dreamed of being, and all one can do is to lie with one's eyes closed on some straw in the kind of low sleigh that bumps along hour after hour over these steppes. ❋ Michael Moukhanoff (N/A)

The river was gradually losing its clear colour, for the sand-bars were beginning to "work out," or break, making the water quite roily. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

When seated with our backs to the strongest light, and when glancing along the top of such a pool instead of into it, the mirror-like surface gave way to a peculiar purplish tone which seemed to cover the pool, so that one would forget it was roily water, and saw only the iridescent beauty of ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I had a little dog with me and we unthinkingly stepped in the spring making the water roily. ❋ Various (N/A)

A week of hot sunshine had filled the Toba River bank full of roily water when Hollister breasted its current again. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

He drowned his motor finally in fording a roily stream and abandoned the car. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

The long stone slides were glistening wet, and the brooks ran full-banked, noisy and turbulent and roily. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

The roily water kept oozing in all around, and Bluejay was scornful. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)