| 单词 | miry |
| 例句 | Jake watched him stick his fingers in the miry candy and then lick them slowly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z 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.” Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z 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. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z God raised me from a miry pit, from mud and sinking sand, and set my feet upon a rock where I can firmly stand. The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He had to step aside as he spoke to let a manure cart go by, labouring along the miry way. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z They splashed through miry rut and pool,— Splintered through fence and rail; But chestnut Kate switched over the gate,— I saw them droop and tail. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z 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. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z The “rock” is better than the miry clay and “nebber mind de sun—see how she run.” Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z Every journey had to be made on horses or behind them, roads were rough and miry, fords were plenty, bridges scarce. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z At times, it was with the greatest difficulty, after doubling the teams, that the artillery and wagons were extricated from those miry depths. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z She found the park deserted, the paths miry, the water dripping from the trees. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The plane's broad plates of weather-beaten gold Lie shrunk and sodden in the miry way, Never around the dappled trunk to play Again with tricksy beams, and breezes bold. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z But the joy is short-lived, and in my dreams I find myself tumbling over precipices and wading through miry swamps. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z 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. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z He had been down in the horrible pit; he had been sinking in the miry clay. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z As she knew that every cent was precious now, she turned back on foot along the miry street. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Ruts deep and broad as new furrows trenched the road, and here and there some slough would make a wide miry gap, wherein my horse sank over the fetlocks. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z At one time the formidable slough received us into its cavernous depths, and as we went down, vehicle and horses and all, seemed to threaten to swallow us up in its miry embrace. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z One was a miner in miry long boots and soil-stained jean, the other a girl in a light dress. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Hooray!' yelled Bobby, striking such a whack on Brindle's heaving side that she settled the matter by suddenly lying down to roll, and depositing her encumbrances in the miry ditch. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z The French army had been marching all night over miry roads, and through mountain defiles. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z It took two hours to cross the miry plain, though it was but a mile and a half wide. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z And the fascination of the open country, even with the weeping woodlands and soggy, miry underfoot, was coming more and more over her, she further declared. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The sea no longer shone with phosphorescent glow, but was quite black, pitch black, black as boiling pitch, without foam and without light, and kept sending up a discharge of miry, vaporous matter. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z They had moved up to London while she was there, and London was miry and foggy and cold. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z He was in solitude "in the horrible pit and miry clay;" but directly he planted his foot on the everlasting "rock" of resurrection, he associates us with him. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z Up the steep and miry Bush track, then like any other Bush track, the poor horses strained and struggled, slipped and fell. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Then came misfortune Number 3, for the wheels of the Wanderer began to sink deep in the miry meadow. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Where the nature of the route will allow it, and an early start is desired, our teams are attached to a long sled, lightly loaded, which is dragged over miry, rough roads. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z There's a deep wide ditch, marshy in places, wet and miry everywhere for a mile either way, and the banks are steep. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z “God grant that I may be drawing near some inhabited place,” said I. The path now grew very miry, and there were pools of water on either side. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Still, they did not touch bottom; miry points round which the tide swirled, rotting logs on mud-banks, and misty trees crept astern, and at last they heard the rumble of the swell on beaten sand. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z It is impossible to allow women to make such a journey as this—bad roads, miry and unsafe. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z But there was nothing to do but plod on, through the wet, miry trail. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z “And these: “‘He took me from a fearful pit, And from the miry clay; And on a rock he set my feet, Establishing my way.’ Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z 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?” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Where it pours Past leagues of desert-sand, Jungles and miry places, Palms of an unknown land, Ferns and their fronded faces; Have we gone forth from God! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z But alas! a struggle of this kind is like that of floundering in a miry bog—the more you struggle the deeper you sink. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z In addition to this, there was a fairly big thaw pool and much miry ground near by, so that the inhabitants were generally covered with mud and very disreputable to look at. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He offered the doctor a cigar, and began to talk about the bad weather; and, indeed, it was a rough journey over the miry road and through the gray, dripping solitude. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Nay, as I blink about the streets Of this befogged and miry city, Why, almost every girl one meets Seems preternaturally pretty! Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Was there love in Jeremiah's heart when he swore to the truth and changed not, even if he did land in the dark, miry dungeon? The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z He did not go far, for he soon got into a miry place. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The ground was so saturated with rain that it was almost impossible for the French to drag their cannon through the miry ruts. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z To Frank lying prone on the miry ground, these sounds conveyed a very definite and significant message. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Their favourite fishing shore on that pond was, it seems, very miry. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z When he got out of doors the sun shone warm and bright, but it had rained over night, so that it was soft and miry, and all the bog-holes were full of water. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z On all sides tremendous tule swamps present themselves, which can be very miry in wet years. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z We see the sturdy boy daily pacing to school, through the rough and miry way of that half-rural district. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z For those who by their abstractions separate the elements of experience from each other, are forced to go beyond experience for the unity they have lost, and flounder in the miry bogs of agnosticism. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z He simpler took a large pair of shears and carefully cut off each time the newly formed miry margin and filthy horizon. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z I longed to sit down in the miry way and go to sleep. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Carnal and spiritual weapons will no more unite under the gospel dispensation than iron and miry clay. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z And in a few minutes they were picking their way, side by side, down the little miry lane. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z But how can it be that Thou shouldst build a golden house, the house of Thy dwelling place, in a miry pool?’ Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z They spent many laborious days in picking their way through dense underbrush and miry swamps, stopping here and there to make rafts to carry them across the numerous streams. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z The governments, State and National, want such men, and are looking for them, while they are skulking through city alleys or walking miry roads at midnight. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z The ground was miry and boggy, and the pony with difficulty dragged the chaise. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z She has the same thought, the same feeling of being plunged in a black, miry abyss in which she can find no ground for her feet. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z So violent was the storm, and so miry was the ground, that they took fourteen hours to reach their comrades. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Six rude gateways on the southern side conduct through as many miry enclosures, lined with troops, and crowded with herds, flocks, and applicants for justice. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z For almost the whole day the two wounded men lay on the wet, miry ground, while the battle raged around them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z The heavily armoured French noblesse, embogged in miry meadows, proved helpless before the lightly equipped English archery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The road was deep, miry, and bordered by bottomless zancas of mud and water. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Whither was he to go?—back across the wide morass, where the earth, soft and miry, sank under his feet, where the unhallowed lights lead the wanderers into bottomless quagmires? The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z A web of deep miry ravines, shut in by high crumbling banks, presented a wet and slippery footing, and many were the disasters that befel the demure dames of the royal kitchen. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z There had been a heavy fall of rain, and the ground was miry. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z They all jumped together, to find themselves in a miry place where Mary was waiting. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z The streets are very dirty and miry, but everything else is agreeable, except the monstrous prices of things. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams It was falling in no steady downpour which held forth promise of ending, but with a gentle constancy that gave the hills a look of sodden discomfort and made disconsolate miry pools by the roadside. The Valiants of Virginia Lakes, pools, morasses, and swamps, are frequent; the rivers of little fall have muddy and miry beds, which on that account become unfordable during the rains. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z As for 'people'—well, I know the world and its miry ways. The Gay Adventure A Romance Whom thou desertest not, O Genius, Him thou'lt lift o'er miry places On thy flaming pinions: He will traverse As on feet of flowers Slime of Deucalion's deluge; Slaying Python, strong, great, Pythius Apollo! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Sometimes Victoria found herself growing younger by contagion, sloughing the horrible miry coat of the past. A Bed of Roses Our so-called road, however, was worse than anything I had ever seen or heard of Flemish or South Louisiana synonymes of that word,—miry lagoons and spongy mud as black and as sticky as pitch. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 But they went on higher and higher, till at last they stood on a dreary waste of rough grass, and miry pools, and turf-pits blanched by the white bog-flower. The Story of a Red Deer A mule hates the dark almost as much as an Indian; he dislikes to work in water, and above all he dreads miry places or quicksands, for which his small, sharp hoofs are peculiarly unfitted. Campmates A Story of the Plains A collar was wrought for him, and chains of gold and silver; and whenso the ways were miry, his courtmen bare him on their shoulders. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road But the caissons were not loaded and drawn through the miry field so easily. Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division We were almost passing, when he raised his eyes, which had been staring down into the miry road in frowning abstraction. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The weather was unusually mild; there was a thaw, by which the roads might be rendered deep and miry, and almost impassable. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools "I couldn't swim exactly," he retorted as he surveyed the miry trail indicated by Miss Duckman, "so I guess I'll walk along the railroad." The Competitive Nephew He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. The Bible Story It grows like a flag in the miry marshes, having roots of the magnitude and taste of Irish potatoes, which are easy to be dug up. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts My expectations were not of the firmest, for I knew the Cumberland Pike to be quite as miry as the Philadelphia road. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Greene spurred forward through heavy rain and deep miry roads. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools We had camped in an open valley, and in front lay a long acclivity of miry red track mapped out by ancient wheel ruts and rendered diabolical by a heavy rainfall during the night. A Frontier Mystery For sinful men in the miry pit the rope is already let down, and their grasping it is the same as the psalmist's cry. The Book of Courage The opinion was general among the Goths that men who died natural deaths went into vast caves underground, all dark and miry, full of noisome creatures, and there for ever grovelled in stench and misery. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Cavalry are dismounted, and the horses harnessed to the teams: all in vain! the wheels sink deeper in the miry earth. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II As he proceeded, the rainy season set in; the brooks and rivers became swollen, and almost impassable; the roads deep and miry; provisions and forage scanty; the troops generally sickly, having no tents. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools You sleep this night in the forest, and reach an Indian settlement about three o’clock the next evening, after walking one-third of the way through wet and miry ground. Wanderings in South America In wet wood and miry lane Still we pound and pant in vain; Still with earthy foot we chase Waning pinion, fainting face; Still, with grey hair, we stumble on Till—behold!—the vision gone! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Camped at the springs over night, found plenty of grass, but the swamps are very miry. Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 The bugle sounded "Rally on the right flank," and Si and Shorty joined the others in a lumbering rush over the miry fields toward the right. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro All day and for a great part of the night they marched under a cold and pelting rain, and through deep and miry roads to the Yellow Springs, thence to Warwick, on French Creek. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools She had seen the injured man, who lay calling for help in a miry spot of the Man Killer trail, before. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl And here you may notice one source of light which makes these matters clearer to our eyes than if we saw them through the miry shades of a monastery in Spain or Italy. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages For he saw himself sinking deeper and deeper into this miry difficulty, and how he was to extricate himself without dragging his friends down, was still a terrible enigma. Cudjo's Cave The upper half was quite shallow, with soft, miry bottom covered with flags and rushes. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 His doctrine of the production of animals was founded on the action of the sunlight on the miry earth. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with a freight through miry lanes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers A mile further and we halted—a thicket along the road-side offering a retreat only less forlorn than the miry road. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 The horses had become stiff in the joints, and, with a cold and raw blustering wind to chill them, they were now forced to pull their heavy load on the miry highway leading toward town. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day About 10 o'clock we came to a little narrow creek, the bottom being miry and several feet below the surface of the ground. In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 The roads were narrow and miry, and were not improved by a heavy rain which fell during the march, and by the passage of successive trains of wagons and batteries of artillery. History of Morgan's Cavalry To avoid the danger of capture by the enemy’s cruisers, these were carted over the miry roads of New Jersey. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran In addition to these, there were miry places, where the horses sank deep, and could only extricate themselves with difficulty. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia They represented to the life merry, devil-may-care vagabonds, and so well did they act their parts that one would have supposed they had just been picked up on the miry highway outside. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day The last was three miles long, a third of which was a miry spruce and cedar swamp. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Nor were these miry and uneven ways by any means exempt from toll; on the contrary, the chivalry of the Cambrian Rebecca might have been laudably exercised in clearing the thoroughfares of these unconscionable barriers. Old Roads and New Roads The bottom of it was wet and miry, and the prophet, when let down into its gloomy depths, sank into the deep mire. Cyrus the Great Makers of History The narrow and miry streets, insinuating themselves between the hovels in wood, halting and crippled, turned and returned upon themselves, to end finally in a repulsive sewer. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 She took him up very sharp and high: called upon him, if he were a Christian? and which he most considered, the loss of a few dirty, miry glebes, or of his soul? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI They had no trouble in catching these, but holding their wet, miry little bodies was a different matter. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John It was a muddy, miry place in which Tom Mason now found himself, for it had been raining some there and Fort Hamilton was not blessed with a system of drainage. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget One song shall echo through the throng: “To Him who loved us: To Him who washed us: To Him who saved us, From deep and miry clay!” Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English Sometimes the path is hard and lonely, and we stumble in miry ways; but sometimes our way is through fields and thickets, and the valley is full of sunset light. The Thread of Gold They plodded through miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges, and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 Us who, to free our travel-weary legs, Like carrots from the slough of miry roads, Often with both hands had to lug them out? L'Aiglon Too late I realized the slough’s miry state. The Law-Breakers Before they can reach the wicket-gate, they fall into a 'miry slough.' Bunyan In vain they showed him the craggy path which traversed the hill of Fame; in vain they set him in the foul and miry roads which led to the temple of Mammon. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 The Araners know little of politics, save that the Balfour Government lifted them out of the horrible pit and the miry clay, and set their feet upon a rock and established their goings. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule He was very wet and miry, and his face was lined and worn, for the three months of unremitting effort had left their mark on him. The Greater Power It had taken to the grass, and was heading straight for the miry slough. The Law-Breakers Who does not know the miry slough too? Bunyan Its banks were marshy with a wide spread of oozy soil, and miry reeds grew in abundance. The Twins of Suffering Creek The road was soft and miry, and the horses sank almost to their knees in the sticky mud. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War A huge herd of those creatures, basking along the miry edge of the river, helped his illustration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 He brought me up also Out of an horrible pit, Out of the miry clay; And set my feet upon a rock, Established my goings. The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ And wet and miry phantoms, too, And close to the Vari�t�s, And not a shroud to trick the view! Enamels and Cameos and other Poems He reported that Philip was upon a little spot of upland in the midst of a miry swamp just south of Mount Hope. King Philip Makers of History Mastering the hill, the whole cavalcade was soon turning into a stony, root-tangled, miry road, leading from the turnpike into the heart of the "Barrens," the territory of the desired fruit. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Then they skirted miry creeks that gradually filled with weeds as they neared dry ground, and went home to Langrigg by the causeway road. Partners of the Out-Trail The place of death is given in this Psalm: “the horrible pit and the miry clay.” The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ After alighting from the machine, I had to descend to the loch-side by a steep, miry, and circuitous road through a wood. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland So she led them roundabout and roundabout, through mud and brambles and swamps; over little brooks and through big miry ponds where they were nearly drowned,—roundabout and roundabout all night long. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts On the way to Becky's her feet turned of themselves by long habit down the miry street in which the red-brick school-building rose in dreary importance. Ghetto Comedies Audrey's sturdy nature could brook no self-indulgence, and though the March winds were cold, and the Brail lanes deep in miry clay, she persisted in paying her accustomed weekly visit to Thomas O'Brien. Lover or Friend Any one who sinks into a pit filled with miry clay cannot help himself. The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ They waylaid him one dark night, in an unfrequented place, and, binding him hand and foot, threw him into a miry marsh. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Between the calico shanties and along the miry, uneven ways, men stand in groups, their conversation all of the luck of “the toffs.” The Tale of Timber Town Both started, and, after stumbling over bushes loaded with water, and sinking into the miry shore, and wading in the river by turns, they came upon it, pulled high up on the bank. The Ranger or The Fugitives of the Border They were four days on their way to visit the commander, being obliged to wade through miry swamps much of the way. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services One who is in the miry clay cannot save himself. The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ The roads were miry, the dead leaves slippery. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field She picked up her courage very soon, stepped neatly through the miry, slippery streets, and presently reached her home. Good Luck The new trail was reported to be exceedingly miry, and that determined the matter—we concluded to make the short cut. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Pools of water stood in the miry streets, and every aspect of nature was cheerless and desolate. Madame Roland, Makers of History His mighty love it was, that love which passeth knowledge, which brought Him from Heaven’s Glory down to the horrible pit, the miry clay. The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ She had a fight with Blue over these latter places and demonstrated beyond doubt that they were miry, by getting him in to the knees in spite of his violent objections. The Ranch at the Wolverine Streams of dirty water poured from the roofs, and in the streets the miry snow sluiced slowly downhill or stuck on passing boot-heels in treacherous pads. A Modern Mercenary It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with freight through miry lanes. English: Composition and Literature Hitherto we have had merely a general impression of murky air and miry soil, sloping perhaps a little toward the centre, and intersected now and again by a stream. Dante: His Times and His Work Believing in Him we are taken out, yea forever, from the terrible pit and the miry clay. The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ She also discovered for herself that they could not have broken out of that pasture, and that the river bank was impassable, because of high, thick bushes and miry mud in the open spaces. The Ranch at the Wolverine The two horses were again pacing with well matched steps through the miry road. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 No sooner said than done; they plodded through miry lanes, waded through shallow brooks, and at length arrived at the farmer’s gate. The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. It was about half-past nine when she reached the wet and miry street. Hawtrey's Deputy You divine either in the other or in yourself precipices or miry paths which prevent you from penetrating any farther; moreover, you feel that you will not be understood. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man So leaving him at the venerable “Swan,” I hurried through the miry streets toward the church. Lorimer of the Northwest An equal proportion of timber and prairie, some excellent, other parts inferior,—and some bad, miry swamps, called "purgatories." A New Guide for Emigrants to the West “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 The poor rector had led his flock into a miry place with a vengeance. Tom Brown at Oxford Sin is a foul, slimy, miry thing, defiling whoever it touches. Standards of Life and Service The sun's heat, acting on the original miry earth, produced filmy bladders or bubbles, and these, becoming surrounded with a prickly rind, at length burst open, and as from an egg, animals came forth. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 One night he dreamed he was struggling in a deep, miry pit; but try as he would he could find no way of escape. How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time The Sikhs got safely ashore, but next morning again the winds blew and the rains descended, and the camping-ground was soon a miry pool. World's War Events, Vol. I She sprinted and splashed along the miry roads, indifferent as to whether she stepped in puddles or not, and careless how wet she got. Miss Mapp They went into camp without tents or blankets or bedding of straw even, on the open and miry alluvial ground, with the temperature at times at freezing point. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 The recent rains had, however, transformed it into a formidable obstacle, and waggon after waggon stuck hopelessly in its miry embrace. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland The man's curiosity became excited, and as soon as he started to follow her, she went off in the direction of a miry place that had been left unguarded, and stopped upon its very brink. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) The ground was all wet and miry from the rain. The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter The old wall had now fallen to ruins, but the miry ground remained. Xerxes Makers of History Over the miry roads the wagon-teams could hardly be moved with light loads. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality As elephants in terror shrink From the false river's miry brink, Thus subjects from a monarch flee Whose face their eyes may seldom see, Who spends the hours for toil ordained In evil courses unrestrained. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The Confederates were moving to the south by the pike and each side of it, the infantry passing through the miry region. A Lieutenant at Eighteen Our entire party reunited, we canoeists paddled across to the lake's outlet, a narrow, miry stream which loses itself in a swamp, and that in turn merges into the Upper Wild Rice Lake. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science On the wet top rail, precariously perching, the figure slipped and sprawled forward in the miry yard. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights They came to a great black pond on which marsh fowl were swimming, but Henry led around its miry edges, and they pressed on into the deeper depths of the vast swamp. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Upon the miry lake he seemed To lie and welter, as I dreamed; With hollowed hands full many a draught Of oil he took, and loudly laughed. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It was not easy to stand up on the miry slope of forty-five degrees, and the feet of the leader had a tendency to give way in the mud. A Lieutenant at Eighteen The landlord readily consented to advance me a pound sterling on my watch, and without stopping to take breakfast, I plunged into the miry streets. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The road was everywhere miry, owing to the wet season, and crossed ridges and wet hollows. From Fort Henry to Corinth And because it’s so big and black and miry it’s all the better for us. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness He was a very well-dressed young man, and he seemed out of place amid the miry traffic of the Belfast quays. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 Deck was studying up some way to extricate the wagons from their miry plight. A Lieutenant at Eighteen They ate their meager lunch beside a miry pool, where a clump of cedars under a bluff gave a few square feet of shadow. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Oak Creek, from the neighborhood of Shiloh Church to its mouth, flows through a miry bottom bordered by banks of less height. From Fort Henry to Corinth It is like the miry pit that Jeremiah was cast into, that there was no out-coming, and no pleasant abode in it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning It was plain enough that thirty-two hands had been found to man the capstan, for the anchor was certainly coming up from its miry bed. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Of course we were compelled to keep by the waggon until we had made the passage of the miry flat. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The miry ways of the past month had given way to a frost, and we walked across to the station on frozen puddles. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler The miry road was lined with abandoned wagons, limber-boxes, and with hospitals filled with wounded. From Fort Henry to Corinth How thorny, how miry is the way of covetousness! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Now and then, too, we were halted to mend a broken tongue or an axle, or help a “stalled” waggon from its miry bed. The Scalp Hunters There are also on this sea coast various miry places, like the Vlaeck, and others as well as some sand bays and hard and rocky shores. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The ground was everywhere so miry that it was difficult to avoid sinking above the ankles at every step. The Island Home It has led thee to miry paths, and raised The gall of despair to thy famished lips; It were better that such a child should die. Stories in Verse A single lovely image, like Sterne’s figure of the recording angel, reconciles us to many a miry page. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The weather was still wild, the roads miry and heavy, and through the winter night the motley party plunged along. The Reign of Mary Tudor To the reader who has inherited the ethical ideal of Christianity, Plato's love will seem like the image in Nebuchadnezzar's vision,—the head of gold, the feet of miry clay. The Chief End of Man In working out the road tax she was allowed four pence halfpenny for every cart-load of stones dumped into miry places on the highway. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman He took me from the fearful pit, And from the miry clay, And on a Rock He set my feet, Establishing my way. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. The first name is given to it form the peculiar noise made by its feet when passing along, resembling that of a heavy shoe in a miry road. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc This creek was easily crossed in some places, but in others was a deep, miry pool from twenty to thirty yards wide and almost impassable. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 To stand by and applaud the efforts of the individual who was perhaps slowly sinking deeper and deeper into a miry slough of degradation began to seem an even diabolical attitude. The Task of Social Hygiene No iron mixed with miry clay, Will ever do, the people say, Hurrah! &c. The Liberty Minstrel "He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay: "And He set my feet upon a rock, and stablished my goings. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. One day, as the queen and her ladies were out walking, dressed in fine robes of silk and lace, they came to a miry puddle in the road. True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk He drank from the miry pool, and then, trousers rolled to his knees, sunk foot and ankle in the delicious coolness. The Long Roll It stands greatly to the credit of the Battalion's fitness and discipline that not a man fell out during all those marches in the rain over indescribably miry roads. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) You said only last Sunday that if we're once on the Rock, God forgets all about the pit and the miry clay. St. Cuthbert's A few heavy cannon were left, not being moveable on account of the ground's being soft and miry through the rains that had fallen. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn He was deeper than either of the others had been, and it required some very rough usage before finally they loosened him from his miry bed. The Boy Scouts of Lenox They lay upon the miry earth, beneath the pelting storm. The Long Roll Listen, they are singing; it is the fortieth Psalm: "He took me from the fearful pit and from the miry clay." The Life of St. Paul A miry lane led us up from Quartes with its church and bickering windmill. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) I stumble now in miry ways; Dark clouds drift landward, big with rain, And lonely moors their summits raise. A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry Abandon, O Caesar! such thoughts and wishes as now agitate and propel you: leave them to mere men of the marsh, to fat hearts and miry intellects. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Twilight found it little more than five miles from its starting-point, and the bivouac that night was by the comfortless roadside, in the miry bushes, with fires of wet wood, and small and poor rations. The Long Roll 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. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse Still the rain, still the mud, still the beautiful sphinx, crouching in her seat, her eyes wandering aimlessly over the miry landscape. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Still more dark and dismal grew those mazes—more wet and miry the morass. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 And she answered: "Lord, I was walking in miry ways, and I saw a woman there down in the mire, and I stepped upon her that I might keep my sandals clean." London Lectures of 1907 Behind the shed, between it and a stout board fence, sprang a great clump of wet elder, tall and rank, with spreading leaves; underneath, black, miry earth. The Long Roll The ladies bore their trials wonderfully, as they had to tramp with the rest, along the miry track. Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti Its sympathy, Doth undergird the drooping, and uphold The foot that falters in its miry path. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Here was reward enough for all the jolting, the flogging of horses, and the pain of yokels pressed unwillingly into pushing the coach with their shoulders through miry places. Simon Dale The Christ and the angels vanished, and the woman fell from heaven, and wandered again in the miry ways of earth. London Lectures of 1907 Out there it was hot and glaring, in here there was black, cool, miry loam, shade and water. The Long Roll He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon the rock. Out of the Deep Words for the Sorrowful They know what it is to stand motionless in a wet and miry rifle-pit in the chilly rain of a southern winter's night. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter It was quite a heavy post, but Russ was strong enough to drag it to the side of the miry pool where the calf was fixed. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's They formed a deep little copse; nobody within their round and, oh joy! shade and a little miry pool! The Long Roll Oh! 'twasn't you, 'twas the ——," he said, rubbing a miry hand across the jaw, dripping with blood, "I think the two poor devils are done in. The Red Horizon He drove on till he got to a place where there was a muddy and miry puddle beside the road. Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter He looked down at the soft, miry road. The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley A few troops, however, of the vanquished had still the courage to turn upon their pursuers; and attacking them in deep and miry ground, obtained some revenge for the slaughter and dishonor of the day. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John Doubtless the hollows contained vast primordial woods, and fiercely flooding mountain streams, scoring their paths through wide stretches of miry tundra, quaking and treacherous. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The road was a gentle ascent, miry from the late rainy weather, and shaded by pines, poplars, birches, and cypresses, which terminated our view. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Above the dull and miry ways were the beauty of her gray-blue eyes and the glory of her golden hair. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 The creek was too deep and miry to afford foot hold to those who attempted to raise them from the water. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Press upward in steep ways, miry and craggy, narrow and broad, by turns. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The road was miry and dark, and my journey proved to be more tedious and fatiguing than I expected. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Happy were they who could patch up an old canoe, though obliged to bear it half the way on their shoulders, through miry bogs and interwoven willows. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 The wayfarers seemed unusually coarse and jostling that evening, Percival thought, the pavement peculiarly miry, the flaring gaslights very cruel to the unloveliness of the scene. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Here a number of detached sinkings had been run together by the recent rains into a long miry pool. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." Our Day In the Light of Prophecy All cold from a boisterous night, at a chilly season, all weariness from a rugged and miry road, were charmed away. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 With shouts of triumph on his lips he falls Prone in the gore and in the miry clay. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor They had made their way for nearly an hour over a rough and miry river-bottom when the setter showed sudden excitement and began sniffing to the right and left. Captured by the Navajos After 1,000 to 1,200 yards he struck the 'false coast,' crossed a deep and fetid swamp, and, after a short rise, came upon the miry borders of the Ebumesu. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The pursuers gain on him—a bridge, a stream filled with tall reeds, and delightfully miry, are all the hope of refuge he sees before him. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 We think God has taken our feet from the "horrible pit and miry clay." A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister He has such a hopefulness of belief in human nature that he shrinks from no man, however clothed and cloaked in evil, however miry with stumblings and fallings. An Introduction to the Study of Browning There was no sign of abatement; therefore Nagendra, thinking it necessary to seek for shelter, set out to walk to the village, which was at some distance from the river, through miry paths. The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal Now they are mounds and ridges of red clay standing up abruptly, and their dense growths of dark yew-like trees contrast with the yellowish produce of the adjacent miry lowlands. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative A heavy rain had fallen during the night, and the plowed land over which the French must cross was so wet and miry that their heavily armed horsemen sank deep at every step. The Leading Facts of English History On each side, it is beset with thorns, and briers, and miry pits. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister Miles Macdonell states that it was on "low, miry ground without a ditch." The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba Law, law," he mused; "'the horrible pit an' the miry clay.' The Quickening The main passage is in general quite spacious, the roof elevated, and the floor tolerably level, but often wet and miry. Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills It cannot be said, I fear, that he passed along those miry ways without some defilement. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues He retreated fighting, killed three Indians with his own hand, and probably would have regained his boat in safety, had he not accidentally plunged into a miry hole, from which he could not extricate himself. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. He was penitent and in earnest, and needed only this great Gospel hope to lift him from the horrible pit and the miry clay. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Over miry roads, in places blocked by boulders, there was the painful, laborious ascent of the steep grade leading to the summit of what we now call Schooley's Mountain. Fifth Avenue As the youth walked rapidly westward through the miry streets, he was revolving the situation rapidly in his mind, and at last he reached a conclusion which he muttered aloud as he went. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot But Desmond, nimbly evading his clutch, slipped his foot within his brother's, and with a dexterous movement tripped him up, so that he fell sprawling, with many an oath, on the miry road. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India A miry path led through an abandoned camp—a chaos of riddled and shattered boards and contorted iron sheeting. Combed Out Dragging sore feet along the miry roads they heard the guns at Rietfontein and were glad. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War Instead of the dry Georgia uplands, his route lay across a low sandy country cut by rivers with branches at right angles to his line of march, and bordered by broad and miry swamps. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History It is out of the pit and the miry clay that we want to bring them. The Other Girls On their way, coming to a miry place, they said, ‘We will rest,’ and began to talk together. The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi Our way was generally obstructed by fallen trees, old logs, miry places, pointed rocks and entangled roots, which were not to be avoided. A Sketch of the History of Oneonta He crouches at the base of the wall, in a miry hole. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War Norah Ryan leaves her home at an early age, and is plunged into a new world where dissolute and heedless men drag her down to their own miry level. The Amateur Army His troops were exhausted; the night of pitchy blackness, and the miry roads, cut to pieces by the heavy artillery and baggage wagons, were horrible. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power They lay now in miry woods, and on the other side of them flowed the wide and yellow river. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad For some pulled up, and left the hunt, Some fell in miry bogs, And vainly rose and "ran a muck," To overtake the dogs. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood For almost a week there had been rain, and the roads were heavy and the lanes muddy and full of pools of miry water. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Some have toiled through miry and scarce passable roads. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The banks were not miry and the access to the water was easy. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Knowing that they are loved dearly by their mothers, men persecute them in diverse ways, and lead them into miry spots abounding with biting insects. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He wouldn't have minded that, of course, except that the miry way he'd trodden since he'd first gone to the stage door for Rose was the way she's taken ahead of him. The Real Adventure II we find: "But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed." The Evolution of an English Town She has sunk into some mossy or miry place," said Michael, to a man near him, into whose face he could not look, "a cruel, cruel death to one like her! McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader There were also, O chief of Bharata's race, miry rivers made of drinks having the six kinds of taste. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Behold the Earth, miry with blood, strewn with the faces of heroes, decked with beautiful earrings and well-cut beards and possessed of the splendour of the moon and stars. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration The hour or two hours' walk each day through streets thickly spread, oftener than not, with a slimy, miry dampness literally dissolves these shoes. Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls The words seemed to set themselves to joyous music in the ears of Anthony Dalaber as he hastened homeward through the miry and darkening streets towards his lodging in St. Alban Hall. For the Faith The king should make a river having quivers for its stones, steeds and cars for its current, and standards for the trees that cover its banks, and which is miry with foot-soldiers and elephants. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Indeed, in that vast host teeming with men, steeds, and elephants, that river formed by the blood of men and steeds and elephants and horsemen and elephant-men, became miry with flesh and exceedingly terrible. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The old gateway was shocked and grieved to see the reverend canons running beneath the arch bloody and miry, rent and torn, carrying their complaint to the Bishop and then to the King at Westminster. Vanishing England Near the men stood a few jaded teams and miry wagons; farther on a row of freight-cars occupied a side-track, a little smoke rising from the stacks on the roofs of one or two. Ranching for Sylvia She looked long and earnestly across the miry waste. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Polluted with the stench of sinners, and miry with flesh and blood, it abounded with gadflies and stinging bees and gnats and was endangered by the inroads of grisly bears. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Men conversant with war approve of a region that is not miry, not watery, not uneven, and not abounding with bricks and stone, as well-fitted for the operations of cavalry. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 We walked along this miry pass and observed what we thought might be an old church, which we went to examine, but found it to be only a tower and a few ruins. From John O'Groats to Land's End Flora glanced at the jaded teams and the miry wagons and smiled at the lad. Ranching for Sylvia So, when some sturdy swain through miry roads A grunting porker to the market goads, With twisted neck, splash'd hide, and progress slow, Oft backward looks the swine, and half disdains to go. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 A shed thatched with heather and a rough stone byre stood near the house, and a big peat-stack filled one end of a miry yard. Carmen's Messenger During the progress of that dreadful and fierce battle, the earth became miry with flesh and blood and horrible sights presented themselves on every side. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 The road was dark, rutty, and in places still miry from Monday night's rain. Helmet of Navarre The young man still wore his festival dress; but his best stockings and buckled shoes were stained and splashed, as from much walking in miry ways. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales And meanwhile we have this bit of the heroic—this defiance of a miry world, cropping up—to help us out of our mud-holes. The Mating of Lydia All men, attached to children and wives and kinsmen and relatives, sink in the miry sea of grief like wild elephants, when destitute of strength, sinking in a miry slough. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Many a fine road has become miry and foul because it has not been properly cared for; but my text says the unclean shall not walk on this one. New Tabernacle Sermons They bridged them by laying down logs cut to even lengths in a slightly slanting position across the way for the entire extent of miry ground. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Hercules and the Wagoner As a Wagoner was driving his wain through a miry lane, the wheels stuck fast in the clay and the Horses could get on no farther. The Talking Beasts They were standing at the last gate before the miry village road began, and almost in sight of the little vicarage. Marcella With broken cars, O monarch, the fallen elephants, and steeds lying on the ground, and men laid low, the Earth, miry with gore and flesh, and covered with streams of blood, soon became impassable. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Or if a southern gale the region warm, And by degrees unbind the wintry charm; The traveller a miry country sees, And journeys sad beneath the dropping trees. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The rope that is to haul us out of the horrible pit and the miry clay had much need to be tested before we commit ourselves to it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) For the rest, the fret and agitation of this Babylon wears me down: it is the most unspeakable life; of sunbeams and miry clay; a contradiction which no head can reconcile. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Happy were they who could patch up an old canoe though obliged to bear it half the way on their shoulders through miry bogs and interwoven willows. The Journey to the Polar Sea Indeed, along the track of the angry Partha's car, O monarch, the ground, miry with blood, became impassable, O chief of the Bharatas, like the sporting ground of Rudra. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Then the boat glided into miry pulpy water, where her course tended downwards, and where the earth-vault above darkened as it sank lower and lower. Weird Tales from Northern Seas A spiritual and social evolution is generally a pretty slippery slope; a miry slope where it is very easy to slide down again. The New Jerusalem They followed rapidly, the torch going smoothly on before them, when all at once the whole party fell into a miry slough up to their waists. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune The road was a gentle ascent, miry from the late rainy weather and shaded by pines, poplars, birches, and cypresses, which terminated our view. The Journey to the Polar Sea Here was a miry portage about a mile in length, through which we waded right merrily; for it seemed an age since last we had set foot to earth. In the Footprints of the Padres Their chief feeling, when they reached it, was one of relief; the change was so acceptable from the tangled and miry bypath through the forest. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune She had sloughed down deep in the miry sea bottom with her keel amidships firmly imbedded and her bow and stern floating free. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet Soon after this we got into a miry part of the country, with the woods so thick and the going so bad that we knew we could not make any progress. Three Times and Out A man had fallen into a deep, dark pit, and lay in its miry bottom, groaning and utterly unable to move. Quiet Talks with World Winners Rush isn't over half as wide a bayou as Boggy, but she's a true little sister to this miry slough. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon A few warm days and the corral will get miry. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Its fish are dead, its fearful cranes are fled, And crowding elephants its flowery shore Tramp to a miry floor. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 They know what it is to stand motionless in a wet and miry rifle-pit, in the chilling rain of a Southern winter's night. Famous Americans of Recent Times The site chosen for the bridge was a miry bottom over which oozed three or four inches of water, where the width of the stream was about sixty feet, with solid banks on either side. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days "For all the world," as Miss Abbot said to herself, "as if lifting folk from the miry clay and setting their feet on a rock was all in the day's work." Penny Plain The Indians were encamped on a little knoll, around which was miry ground, making a cavalry charge difficult. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) It was a drab picture—the bleak, leaden sky above, the sloppy, miry stones below, the frowsy mothers and fathers, the motley children. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Dark, deep, and miry, of a dreadful hue, Where was the aged man that never stinted To carry bundles of the names imprinted. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 The adjective is therefore primarily applicable to wet land that has become sodden and miry by being poached by cattle, and then to any ground in a similar condition. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Thither, accordingly, we wended our miry way, Müller and I, after dining together at one of our accustomed haunts on the evening following the events related in my last chapter. In the Days of My Youth We did not find the land as miry as we had supposed. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) The faithful Jew could enter on his rest—the narrow, miry streets faded before the brighter image of his brain. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People A light of some sort was needed at an especially miry crossing. The Long White Cloud We had driving rains, and a gale from the southeast, oceanward, which made our sea dark and miry, even after the storm had ceased and patches of blue sky were visible. The Morgesons The bodies of the horses were rolled over into the ditch, the wreck of the wagon was dragged to the miry field, and the regiment went on. A Volunteer Poilu There was a great miry pool under the tall trees in the hollow, and here lay the whole herd of swine, great and small—they found the place so excellent. Pictures of Sweden "What! all the way from Bishopsthorpe?" cry I, incredulously, thinking of the five miry miles that intervene between us and that station. Nancy The river bed itself was nothing but sand, and where there was water enough to wet it, it was very miry and hard traveling over it. Death Valley in '49 Teams of oxen and a driver were kept at the Agency by the Government, to transport the canoes of the Indians across this place, which at many seasons was wet, miry, and almost impassable. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest Sterne, for whose sake I plod through miry ways Of antic wit, and quibbling mazes drear, Let not thy shade malignant censure fear, If aught of inward mirth my search betrays. Sterne She it is that has made the deadlock in the trenches and plastered their occupants with her miry hands. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form He struck a miry place, and while he was floundering McClellan came to the top of the bluff and instantly sprang down full on him, and overpowered him. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 They started, but had not moved far along the miry road before she spoke again. The Castle Inn Such were the remarks that passed between two agricultural women who from behind the hedge were watching the approach of the curate along a deep miry lane. Hodge and His Masters Next morning I was early trudging through the miry streets; and, among other transactions, posted a peremptory note recalling Tom. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 Perhaps because he had reached the perilous forties he had suddenly determined to abandon the safe highway and seek adventure in miry bypaths. The Wrong Twin The ground was now soft and miry and was covered with tussocks of coarse grass, between which the soil was black and oozy. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War Age of iron mixed with miry clay, 79. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love There is no tree that grows so abundantly in miry land, both North and South upon this continent, as the Red Maple. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Soon alter they came to a place where the path, for some distance before them, was full of water, deep and miry. Rollo at Play Safe Amusements When he had done they knew why he had sliced into the miry fen on the right. The Wrong Twin Out in the stream a dredger, all drab with marl, was discharging one after the other its bucket-fuls of miry gravel. The Aspirations of Jean Servien Water-fowls, such as ducks, have at their feet large skins that stretch, somewhat like rackets, to keep them from sinking on the oozy and miry banks of rivers. The Existence of God I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who walked with feet of clay, With cruel crosses on their backs, along a miry way; Who climbed and climbed the bitter steep to which men turn and pray. Ballads of a Bohemian From the earliest of these, it would appear that when the old roads were found too deep and miry to be passed, they were merely abandoned and new tracks struck out. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain It is a miry creek, impassible for many miles, except at the road. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade Men's coats and sticks were hanging up, miry boots were littered about, and a rifle was in one corner. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Here a press of cattle, dazed with fright, and the red and miry heather. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies “God grant that I maybe drawing near some inhabited place!” said I. The path now grew very miry, and there were pools of water on either side. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery In the absence of bridges, guides were necessary to point out the safest fords as well as to pick out the least miry tracks. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Having now a mill pond and miry swamp between him and the enemy, and the command of a narrow pass, the first words the general was heard to say were, "Now we are safe!" A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade In wet wood and miry lane Still we pound and pant in vain; Still with earthy foot we chase Waning pinion, fainting face; Still, with grey hair, we stumble on Till - behold! - the vision gone! Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 The malignity of thy temper perverteth nature; thy learning makes thee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovelling, miry, and dull. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces 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?” Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery I found myself as on a miry bog that shook if I did but stir; and was as there left both by God and Christ, and the spirit, and all good things. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature And that to city of such amplitude And beauty such a petty burgh should grow, And where but marsh and miry pool is viewed, Henceforth should full and fruitful harvests glow? Orlando Furioso We scoured through all their muddy lanes, Woodlands, and fields, and miry plains. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway But it was not in such scenes as these, or even in the deep and miry road, that Will Marks found the chief obstacles to his progress. Master Humphrey's Clock And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road. Amy Foster In wet wood and miry lane, Still we pant and pound in vain; Still with leaden foot we chase Waning pinion, fainting face; Still with gray hair we stumble on, Till, behold, the vision gone! Underwoods Failing in that, he set out for Manchester and reached it at dusk, very weary and very miry in consequence of the road being in such a wretched state of mud and ruts. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers She took him up very sharp and high: called upon him, if he were a Christian? and which he most considered, the loss of a few dirty, miry glebes, or of his soul? Lay Morals Willows by water-courses have their birth, Alders in miry fens; on rocky heights The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore Myrtles throng gayest; Bacchus, lastly, loves The bare hillside, and yews the north wind's chill. The Georgics His passengers at length are wafted o'er, Expos'd, in muddy weeds, upon the miry shore. The Aeneid English The way to his house was crooked and miry—even difficult in the present unpropitious season. The Mayor of Casterbridge An unguided ramble into its recesses in bad weather is apt to engender dissatisfaction with its narrow, tortuous, and miry ways. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Their light canoes whirled on the miry vortex like dry leaves on an angry brook. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 He drew me from the miry clay, He filled my cup quite full. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse Who is this, a wild, bare-headed figure, grim and bloody, stained with mud, rent and torn, upon whose miry coat yet hangs a crushed and fading rose? The Amateur Gentleman On the north the road descends through heavy timber, with many miry places. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future I found myself at last near the river, and on the edge of a morass, where the sun was shining upon the purple flowers of the sweet-flag, and tall rushes rose above little miry pools. In the Valley My poor bruised, puzzled boy," said Melicent, with an odd mirthful tenderness, "how came you to be blundering about this miry world of ours! Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship At one-o'clock the last posse passed through on its return to the county-seat, and after that there was a long, complete silence, while the miry corners were undisturbed by a single hoof-beat. The Gentleman from Indiana He had dropped quietly off, at the first canter, into a miry slough, and had returned sobbingly, covered with mortification and mud, to the arms of his parent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 In rainy weather the traveled roads are even worse than the unfrequented ones, for the ground is rendered more miry, and the bogs are more frequent. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future She was to travel dry-shod over the miry ways of this world, supported by his strong arm. Birds of Prey My poor, bruised, puzzled boy," thought Melicent, as she had done so long ago, "how came you to be blundering about this miry world of ours? Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship The miry ground in the neighborhood of the lake did not allow us to examine the water conveniently, and, being now on the borders of a desert country, we were moving cautiously. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The Boulevard was all deserted, its path miry, the water dripping from its trees; the park was black as midnight. Villette There are many miry places, many ascents and descents and many difficult river passes, the Yuna River, near Bonao, being crossed by ferry. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future At home, the yard affords a grateful scene; For Spring makes e'en a miry cow-yard clean. The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem The Irishwoman directed him to a small street at the back of St. Bride's Church, and thither Mr. Robert Audley quietly strolled, through the miry slush which simple Londoners call snow. Lady Audley's Secret The landing is bad, especially when the miry ebb-tide is out. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Leaving the bridges, our native pilots turned off from the ancient causeway to grope through narrow miry paths in the jungle. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok The decay of these towns when the mines were abandoned, the miry soil and the many crossings of streams all caused travel to be diverted to the road of the Sillon de la Viuda. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Intent I stood To gaze, and in the marish sunk, descried A miry tribe, all naked, and with looks Betok'ning rage. Literary Remains, Volume 1 Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise. The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms "Henry Vaughan's," answered Mary, with a little spiritual shiver as of one who had dropped a pearl in the miry way. Mary Marston The cypresses and canes chuse a still deeper and more miry soil, which is exceedingly fruitful, having had the fruits and foliage of trees from the higher grounds flowing into it from the creation. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 You sleep this night in the forest, and reach an Indian settlement about three o'clock the next evening, after walking one-third of the way through wet and miry ground. Wanderings in South America My faith lays hold of the rope; it is the rope and the Person above who holds it, that lift me out of the 'horrible pit and the miry clay.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark If you like to clutch it, by the pledge of the nail-prints on the palm, He will lift you from 'the horrible pit and the miry clay, and set your feet upon a rock.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV The image beautifully suggests the thought of the favourite child riding high and happy on the strong shoulder, which lifts it above rough places and miry ways. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII How comes it," says a recent and ingenious critic, "that in all the miry paths of life which he had trod, no speck ever sullied the robe of his modest and graceful muse. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography They had fairly worried his native virtues of frankness and fair-dealing out of his heart; they had beaten him back, inch by inch, into the miry refuge of sheer duplicity. Hide and Seek And I have been planted in a miry pool. A Boy's Ride So here is the ladder, that is planted in the miry clay of the horrible pit, and fastens its golden hooks on His throne. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Wilhelm entered, both dogs were with him; they were miry to their very sides. O. T. a Danish Romance Ah, Florimonde! thou art too pure; Unsoiled in the rough and miry paths Of ibis same trampling world; unskilled in heats Of fierce and emulous spirits. Count Alarcos; a Tragedy Oh, it was a still, miry place at the head of a big eddy. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton "If the spy be not too lazy, he will doubtless be free of the miry pool in the morning," observed Humphrey. A Boy's Ride He was persevering and almost dogged in his tenacity of purpose, but he was not above taking mean advantages and getting at his ends by miry roads. Expositions of Holy Scripture I knew better than to do the things I did, but sin is a miry clay pulling its victims down deeper and deeper. Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer In the black gloom we could make out a longish clump of men who stood four abreast, scuffling their feet upon the miry wet stones of the square. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front The first part of the road was wet and miry, and discouraging enough. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Few enough folks came to Moonfleet Church at any time; but fewer still came that morning, for the meadows between the village and the churchyard were wet and miry from the water. Moonfleet His body becomes at last like a miry way, where the spirits are beclogged and cannot pass: all his members are out of office, and his heels do but trip up one another. Character Writings of the 17th Century I cannot cease to thank Him for picking me up out of the miry clay. Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer Christian and Pliable walked on together, without looking whither they were going, and in the midst of the plain they fell into a very miry slough, which was called the Slough of Despond. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction They were also promptly handed in at the office, despite the fact that the stages sometimes broke down and left their passengers to plod on foot through the miry roads leading into London. Halleck's New English Literature That was a weary march for me, for 'twas January, with wet and miry roads, and I had little enough clothes upon my back to keep off rain and cold. Moonfleet A few troops, however, of the vanquished had still the courage to turn upon their pursuers; and attacking them in deep and miry ground, obtained some revenge for the slaughter and dishonour of the day. The History of England, Volume I Go but before into the miry mead, And keep the path that doth to Farnsfield lead; I'll into Southwell and buy all the knacks, That shall fit both of us for pedlar's packs. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 The road was so steep and miry, that we were forced to stop at Hartlebury, where we had a very neat inn, though it made a very poor appearance. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) It was spitting snow, but he had no difficulty in seeing where the trail led from hummock to hummock in the miry earth. Man Size We crossed a bailey or outer court where the rain had made the gravel very miry, and came on the other side to a door which led by steps into a large hall. Moonfleet An indescribable footpath wound through an inextricable labyrinth, sometimes as thorny as a heath, sometimes as miry as a marsh. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness I have heard The boisterous carman, in the miry road, Check his loud whip and hail us with mild voice, And speak with milder voice to his poor beasts. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 As the sun goes down, the western sky often takes a lovely green tint in this month, and one stays to look at it, forgetting the dark and miry way homewards. The Open Air The miry earth, oozing over the edges of the frames, clogged her feet and clung to them like pitch. Man Size In the neighbourhood of Lake la Biche, and also along the miry bank, a number of jets of hot steam find vent through the mud, and make the waters of the river bubble. Owindia : a true tale of the MacKenzie River Indians, North-West America She rolled halfway over onto her side to avoid doing that again, and lay in the miry clay of the bank. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs It seemed odd to be floundering through inky shadows, feeling a way through this miry chaos, when aloft, as far as the eye could see, the sky was lit. Flowing Gold He has the rare faculty of making his readers think hard enough for agreeable exercise, and yet he spares them undue fatigue and rarely takes them among miry bogs or through sandy deserts. History of American Literature They drew near to a very miry Slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bog. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 We ascended during three quarters of an hour, sometimes in the water, which was shallow, sometimes between the torrent and a wall of rocks, on a soil extremely slippery and miry. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Rave on, wild wind, eternal voice of human misery; fall, dead footsteps, eternal echo of human memory; stamp, miry feet; stamp into forgetfulness that which will not be forgotten. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Lo, here comes one amain, he rides full speed, Hedge, ditch, nor miry bog, he doth not heed. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 He pointed out the way, and Harold trudged off to accomplish, as best he might, five Irish miles over miry highways and byways through the darkness of the December evening. Stories by English Authors: Ireland From the depths of her soul she pitied Gregory and wished to help him out of a state which the psalmist with quaint force describes as "a horrible pit and the miry clay." Opening a Chestnut Burr The traveller has to contend with the obstacles presented by a miry soil, large scattered rocks, and strong vegetation. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 You have passed only over the brink of human sufferings, as over the brink of an abyss, and only the foam of the bloody and miry waves have touched You. The Crushed Flower and Other Stories And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 So does threatened trouble of any kind seem to us as we look forward upon its miry ways from the last borders of the pleasant greensward on which we have hitherto been walking. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Several slave factories now appear on either shore, single-storied huts of wood and thatch, in holes cut out of the densest bush, an impenetrable forest whose sloppy soil and miry puddles seem never to dry. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 A cart-track runs through it, deeply rutted and always miry, on either hand of which glades are revealed of great beauty. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca I have a spot of about an acre that in a wet winter becomes very miry and as a rule is wet up to July. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered Six miles due north shall he march; then, where the hills end a swamp begins—thick, miry, set with maple, brier, and tamarack. The Hidden Children Same smooth prairie as above to Bois des Sioux River, sometimes soft and miry; camp on river bank; wood and grass good— river water fair; many catfish caught in the river. Minnesota and Dacotah To the right there was a field, but it was fenced in, and between it and the road was a little miry, brook. The Motor Girls They surged up rapidly, of all sorts, and so numerous at the same time that it seemed to him a hand was stirring the miry depths of his memory. Strong as Death They longed to rescue him, not for their sakes, but for his own, from the horrible pit and the miry clay into which he had fallen. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life The miry trail to the Chinisee Castle led over it, swung westward along the lake, rising to a steep bluff which was gashed with a number of deep and rocky ravines. The Hidden Children The marshes were not miry— firmer bottom; good wagon road; night encampment on bank of river; sufficient grass for train; wood abundant; river water good; many catfish caught in river. Minnesota and Dacotah No outstretched arm to drag him, with something of super-human power, out of the miry pit into which he had fallen; but, instead, an indignant hand to thrust him farther in. The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won He has taken my feet out of the miry clay and set them on firm ground, and I have promised him that they shall not go down into the pit again. Cast Adrift The road was miry in places, and then I would fall behind her farther still that the water and red mud splashing from beneath my horse's hoofs might not reach her. The Heart's Highway Others grimaced at the spongy bread and flabby meat, or at the missiles which attacked their skin from all sides at every defect in their heavy and miry armor-plate. Under Fire: the story of a squad On they rode, in silence, save for Gaston's execrations of the English climate, and the plashing of the horses' feet in the miry tracks, along which, in many places, the water was rushing in torrents. The Lances of Lynwood Ruts of a foot in depth, baked hard by summer, showed how miry the track must be in the season of rain. In the Year of Jubilee Trodden and bruised to a miry tomb Are ears that have greened but will never be gold, And flowers in the bud that will never bloom. The Dynasts 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. Marmion The piles of rubbish, of remains and of filthiness accumulate on the shattered spine of the road's paving and on its miry borders in final confusion. Under Fire: the story of a squad From the wound a stream is driving, To the skies 'tis quickly sped, Now the wounded monster diving, Roaring seeks his miry bed. Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance They plowed through the miry gravel, and falling face downwards, he rolled down the hill. The Girl from Keller's Quaggy banks lay bare, Muddy and miry, glittering in the sun, And myriad insects hovered o'er the reeds, Whose lithe, moist tips by listless airs were stirred. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 They were entangled in the miry defiles of the mountains or fretted impatiently on the banks of impassable floods. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Rising out of the Uthungu valley, we walked over rolling ground, drained in the dips by miry rush rivulets. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Nay, as I blink about the streets Of this befogged and miry city, Why, almost every girl one meets Seems preternaturally pretty! Ballads in Blue China A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day. The Hound of the Baskervilles The miry cow yard, with the hollow trampled out around the horse trough, the disconsolate hens standing under the wagons and sheds, a pig wallowing across its sty, and for atmosphere the desolate, falling rain. Main-Travelled Roads But Tom sank back on the taut rope and fairly jerked the old man out of the miry hole. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret From this, the country being all hill and dale, with miry rush-drains in the bottoms, I walked, carrying my shoes and stockings in my hands, nearly all the way. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Upon her brow we gazed with awe, And loved, and wished to love, in vain But when the snow begins to thaw We shun with scorn the miry plain. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Whereas, thou, who art to journey in miry ways, and amongst a strange people, mayst do well to have two names, as thou hast two shirts, the one to keep the other clean.' Redgauntlet The streets were narrow, dusty in summer and miry in winter. Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam She knew there was a corduroy road most of the way—that is, a road built of logs laid side by side directly over the miry ground. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret After crossing many more hills and miry bottoms, constantly coming in view of the lake, we reached Ugonzi, and after another march of the same description, came to Kituntu, the last officer's residence in Uddu. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Very swiftly but very quietly, the four men picked their way over the miry track to the little bridge leading to the yard in front of the inn. Okewood of the Secret Service With a single clanking wrench the stage toiled on, plodding clumsily over the miry road. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields The patient beasts, however, plod along the miry road, unerringly taking their course to the distant stable door. He Fell in Love with His Wife As Captain Carroll urged his horse along the miry road to La Mision Perdida, he was struck with certain changes in the landscape before him other than those wrought by the winter rains. Maruja Passing across one branch of the Yenisei, once we saw a narrow, miry pass, the entrance to which was strewn with the bodies of men and horses. Beasts, Men and Gods The chapel of the nunnery is now used by the inhabitants as a kind of general cow-house, and the bottom is consequently too miry for examination. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland The English did not dare to pursue him, fearing to venture into these dark and frightful recesses, where they might perish in fens and miry pits or be shot down by lurking foes. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Now that his mind was at rest about her falling out, and knowing that he had a heavy load, Holcroft let the horses take their own time along the miry highway. He Fell in Love with His Wife "Have you got any Aunties?" he inquired, as I laboured upon his miry person. My Lady Caprice We skirted this lake on the west between it and Doulan Kitt, zigzagging between the numerous swamps, lakes and small rivers, deep and miry. Beasts, Men and Gods I had half slid on a miry descent; it was still there; a little lower I had knocked off the top of a thistle; the thistles had not been discouraged, but were still growing. A Miscellany of Men Discouraged by his uncle's opinion, and recognizing its clear-sightedness, Cesar tumbled from the heights of hope into the miry marshes of doubt and uncertainty. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau |
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