River scavenger

Usage examples of mudlark.

Eucrasia was doing prelim on a string of optioned wetsets when she burned on the Mudlark wafer and popped her base.

Thus destroying not only the safe-copy of her own persona, but also the only copy in existence of the Mudlark program.

When the flames died down, a new Rebel Mudlark rose from them like a phoenix.

Above it floated the same false ideal of Rebel Mudlark she had seen in downtown New High Kamden.

I understand it, most of the dirty work was done during the corporate restructuring, when your mother dumped her stock in order to create the Mudlark Trust.

Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark dramas current throughout both Inner and Outer Systems.

Jack had been in his right mind, and if he had known he would one day become involved in a Plan such as this one, he never would have divulged, to his fellow oarsmen, the information that he had grown up a mudlark in East London, and that accordingly he had much experience swimming in estuaries, among anchored ships, in the dark, with a knife in his teeth.

For all of the strange places Jack had been, there was in him enough of the East London mudlark that he could not believe such a thing was actually done in this world.

East London mudlark who had succeeded in stealing an anchor only after sacrificing Dick Shaftoe to the Thames, and then passed out drinking so that he was apprehended the next day.

I was a mudlark with the voice of a mendicant, the soul of a thief, and the heart of a waterfront whore.

The mudlark had been of help to him in the Maude Idris case, and Monk had seen him a dozen times since then, albeit briefly.

There must be hundreds of thousands of rebel mudlarks loose in the System by now.

But as evening fell the captain issued blunderbusses to certain crewmen and told them to be on the lookout for mudlarks, and then Jack knew he had come full circle at last.

Young mudlarks searching the river quag for scrap had been known to step into some discoloured patch of mud and start speaking long-dead languages, or find locusts in their hair, or fade slowly to translucency and disappear.

There were many of these vessels in the heart of New Crobuzon, and the mudlarks dared each other to swim out to them, or to clamber along the old ropes that tethered them pointlessly.