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

He had been down in the horrible pit; he had been sinking in the miry clay.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

He pluck my feet out’n de miry clay.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.

Up the steep and miry Bush track, then like any other Bush track, the poor horses strained and struggled, slipped and fell.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada