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bemire

[bih-mahyuhr] / bɪˈmaɪər /


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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

One thing in my outfit, however, tickled them out of all politeness; and that was the bemired condition of my canvas shoes.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

He looked a youngish man, but very ragged and bemired.

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt

So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.

From The Message by Ellen Marriage


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