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 A. Turnbull
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
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
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
Month of December—with mud the shoe bemired; Heavy the land, the sun in heaven tired; Bare all the trees, little force now required; Cheerful the cock; by dark the thief inspired.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
From The Message by Ellen Marriage
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