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

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

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

The sea no longer shone with phosphorescent glow, but was quite black, pitch black, black as boiling pitch, without foam and without light, and kept sending up a discharge of miry, vaporous matter.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis