miry

How To Use miry In A Sentence

• ‘Thanks a lot,’ Miryoku muttered, walking past his brother and whapping him in the head with his book.
• The whole of the savanna was a miry and quaking bog, until the partial draining operations of the State, effected a year ago, [in 1855.] Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
• The rain still fell, and the ground beneath my feet was wet and miry; in short, it was a night in which even a tramper by profession would feel more comfortable in being housed than abroad. Lavengro
• Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
• Thou promisest to heal their waters, but _their miry places and standing waters_, thou sayest there, _thou wilt not heal_. [ Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• Miryam sweeps the milled wheat out of her quern, pours in a new load of kernels. Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)
• It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions.
• And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road.
• And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place. The Pilgrim`s Progress
• The birds and the flying Jinn fought in the air and the beasts and men and the foot-faring Jann in the dust and I fought with Al-Dimiryat, till I was aweary and he not less so. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night