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Meanings of miry in English

(Of soil) soft and watery.

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Usage of miry in English
1
The cold set the miry roads like cement, in ruts and ridges.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
2
Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
We did not find the land as miry as we had supposed.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
4
It was Earl who lay flat on the miry ground beside him.
Complete Books of Blood
5
Bog boy, I surfaced into the miry streets of the drowned city.
Fugitive pieces
6
The streets were narrow, dusty in summer and miry in winter.
Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam
7
The banks were not miry and the access to the water was easy.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
8
On the north the road descends through heavy timber, with many miry places.
Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
9
The landing is bad, especially when the miry ebb-tide is out.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
10
The old wall had now fallen to ruins, but the miry ground remained.
Xerxes / Makers of History
11
Still more dark and dismal grew those mazes-morewet and miry the morass.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3
12
Here a press of cattle, dazed with fright, and the red and miry heather.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
13
Wilhelm entered, both dogs were with him; they were miry to their very sides.
O. T., A Danish Romance
14
Backward and forward swayed the lantern, just revealing snatches of hedge and miry path.
Nearly Lost but Dearly Won
15
It was raining heavily, and a wet west wind whistled along the miry streets.
Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07
16
A few warm days and the corral will get miry.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
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