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

“And these: “‘He took me from a fearful pit,     And from the miry clay; And on a rock he set my feet,     Establishing my way.’

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

Where Knightsbridge merges into Chelsea first, and Fulham afterwards, there, during the early days of the reign, desolate fields and miry ways used to stretch their unlovely length.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

He had to step aside as he spoke to let a manure cart go by, labouring along the miry way.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret