Synonyms for miry
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mahyuh r-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmaɪər i |
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Définition of miry
Origin :- late 14c., from mire (n.) + -y (2).
- adj slimy
- It had taken to the grass, and was heading straight for the miry slough.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Before they can reach the wicket-gate, they fall into a 'miry slough.'
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- No iron mixed with miry clay, Will ever do, the people say,Hurrah!
- Extract from : « The Liberty Minstrel » by George W. Clark
- Miry was about the handsomest gal that went into the singers' seat a Sunday.
- Extract from : « Oldtown Fireside Stories » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- No: he said Miry was his daughter, and 'twas her bisness to take care on him.
- Extract from : « Oldtown Fireside Stories » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Deck was studying up some way to extricate the wagons from their miry plight.
- Extract from : « A Lieutenant at Eighteen » by Oliver Optic
- It was over this miry marsh that they proposed to build a wharf.
- Extract from : « The Printer Boy. » by William M. Thayer
- Sin is a foul, slimy, miry thing, defiling whoever it touches.
- Extract from : « Standards of Life and Service » by T. H. Howard
- Was this love made for the many and miry roads through which man must travel?
- Extract from : « Devereux, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- It is true of its kind, though the dredging of nature is the miry form of art.
- Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith
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