miry

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According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

Without access to the inter-stage area, which turns the miry walk between the two main stages into a comparatively short hop, the following would not be possible.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2014

As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the clay, that the horses could not draw them out.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

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.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

He had to step aside as he spoke to let a manure cart go by, labouring along the miry way.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret