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
The French army had been marching all night over miry roads, and through mountain defiles.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Still, they did not touch bottom; miry points round which the tide swirled, rotting logs on mud-banks, and misty trees crept astern, and at last they heard the rumble of the swell on beaten sand.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
At one time the formidable slough received us into its cavernous depths, and as we went down, vehicle and horses and all, seemed to threaten to swallow us up in its miry embrace.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
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