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

He pluck my feet out’n de miry clay.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.

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!

From The Piper and the Reed by Norwood, Robert W.

Then the pedantic Doctor John Burton, who journeyed into Sussex in 1751, had no less unfortunate acquaintance with these miry ways than our dilettante of Strawberry Hill.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)