bemire
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W. Wordsworth is such a lazy fellow, that I bemire myself by making promises for him: the moment I received your letter, I wrote to him.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry."
From Time Magazine Archive
No one would reveal then or last week precisely what went on, but it was admitted that the President said something must be done to haul the bemired automobile industry out of the slump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He is to show the validity of his claim to live on high by stooping down to the man bemired and broken-legged in the dirt.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
After rains shoes were bemired in walking, and as rubbers were then unknown it was necessary to remove the mud from the shoes before entering a house.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
From The Message by Ellen Marriage
