Adjective, : miry ground. From Dictionary.com.
If all the road was ankle-deep in miry, sticky mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
He crouches at the base of the wall, in a miry hole. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Some three miles more of wet, miry road took us to the run of which the. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
On the north the road descends through heavy timber, with many miry places. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Still more dark and dismal grew those mazes -- more wet and miry the morass. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
The two horses were again pacing with well matched steps through the miry road. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
And although the sky was cloudless, a bloody shower fell and made the ground miry. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I saw them sleeping in open fields upon the miry earth, with no cover and no shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
But Tom sank back on the taut rope and fairly jerked the old man out of the miry hole. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Backward and forward swayed the lantern, just revealing snatches of hedge and miry path. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
Dragging sore feet along the miry roads they heard the guns at Rietfontein and were glad. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
She rolled halfway over onto her side to avoid doing that again, and lay in the miry clay of the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
The ground was everywhere so miry that it was difficult to avoid sinking above the ankles at every step. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
To the right there was a field, but it was fenced in, and between it and the road was a little miry, brook. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
There are many miry places, many ascents and descents and many difficult river passes, the Yuna River, near. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
One night he dreamed he was struggling in a deep, miry pit; but try as he would he could find no way of escape. From Wordnik.com. [How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time] Reference
The miry ways of the past month had given way to a frost, and we walked across to the station on frozen puddles. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The ground was admirably adapted for a defense of infantry against cavalry, being miry and covered with fallen timber. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Just as the head of the column emerged from a dark, miry swamp, we encountered the rear-guard of the retreating enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We walked through the miry tram-ways under the low, black arches, now stepping aside to let an invisible horse and car. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's] Reference
The distance is too great, and the ways too miry to go on foot; the muddy state of Paris being indescribable; and to take. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Jake, smiling, walked over the miry, muddy slough he was supposed to have struggled in a moment before, and took up the burden. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Farquhart's riding clothes, that had been cast aside after the miry ride from London town, and tucked away in one corner of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
They clung to each other and painfully made their way across the miry fields to the highway, the ancient road of the Tartar Khans. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk] Reference
The recent rains had, however, transformed it into a formidable obstacle, and waggon after waggon stuck hopelessly in its miry embrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
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