wallow in the mire

Portrait photos depict the Doors at their Aquarian zenith, shaggy and seditious, without time to wallow in the mire.

Alas, alas! they turn their backs upon me, And rather choose to wallow in the mire Of want, and torpid inactivity, Than by one bold and masterly exertion Themselves ennoble, and enrich their country!

United States, J.'s remarks on, 1, 216, 217; and the Philippines, 2, 140, 141; rushing to wallow in the mire of empire, 141; manner of eating boiled eggs in, 188; vocalization of people of, 189; and England, 304, 305.

Empire anyhow is half crime by necessity of Nature, and to see a country like the United States, lucky enough to be born outside of it and its fatal traditions and inheritances, perversely rushing to wallow in the mire of it, shows how strong these ancient race instincts be.

Left to his own devices he would always wallow in the mire of sin and vice, and would never even feel the wish to abandon his wickedness.