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

Then came misfortune Number 3, for the wheels of the Wanderer began to sink deep in the miry meadow.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

But there was nothing to do but plod on, through the wet, miry trail.

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard

“God grant that I may be drawing near some inhabited place,” said I.  The path now grew very miry, and there were pools of water on either side. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry