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 Turnbull, A.
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 man, finding that even so he got those garments sorely bemired, so deep was the slush, took them off altogether; others followed his example, hanging their trousers round their necks.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
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 Lang, Andrew
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
From The Message by Marriage, Ellen
