miry
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According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018
Without access to the inter-stage area, which turns the miry walk between the two main stages into a comparatively short hop, the following would not be possible.
From Time • Jul. 7, 2014
Crichtoun! though now thy miry court But pens the lazy steer and sheep, Thy turrets rude and tottered Keep, Have been the minstrel's loved resort.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
The road was horribly miry; presently, as I was staggering through a slough, just after I had passed a little cottage, I heard a cracked voice crying, “I suppose you lost your way?”
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them out.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop