Sentence examples for miry from inspiring English sources

It was not a moment too soon, for Grant's army had begun to draw up for a last-ditch stand with its back to the miry wastes of Snake Creek.

"Queen of the cotton cities", he addresses it magniloquently in the opening line, "nightly I piece you back into existence" – and goes on to do just that, through succulent descriptions of the "frayed bridal train" of factory chimneys; the "warped applause-track of Victorian rain" that wets the miry streets.

Urbain is wounded grievously three times but even in the hell of death, disease, mud, diarrhoea and ever-present danger, he observes nature with exquisite precision: "The earth warms up; after the chilly morning hours, vapour rises from the miry fields, which shine in the strange light.