November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The blackening trains o' craws to their repose: The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend.

A miry road I followed, all in vain; No well-known hill the landscape showed, It was a wretched plain; Where mounds of rubbish, ugly pits, And brick-fields scarred the globe; Those wastes where desolation sits Without her ancient robe.

The cloud had sunk, and filled with fold on fold The chimneyed city; so the smoke rose not, But spread diluted in the cloud, and fell A black precipitate on miry streets, Where dim grey faces vision-like went by, But half-awake, half satisfied with sleep.

After penetrating for I should think upwards of two miles, sometimes up to our knees in miry clay, and often stopped by impassable barriers of wild vines and other prehensile plants, which annoyed us greatly, and made me regret a thousand times that I had courted such dangers and inconveniences, the sound of two rifle-shots threw the whole party into indescribable commotion.

" Christian and Pliable walked on together, without looking whither they were going, and in the midst of the plain they fell into a very miry slough, which was called the Slough of Despond.

[Footnote 1: The mill at Evelyn was filled with fugitives from the battle: the miller, espying Charles and his guide, and afraid of a discovery, called out "rogues;" and they, supposing him an enemy, turned up a miry lane, running at their utmost speed,Boscobel, 47.

The first part of the road was wet and miry, and discouraging enough.

The first part of the ascent of the mountain was gradual, but over a miry path, which was extremely slippery; and had it not been for the sticks stuck down by the party of the padre in their former ascent, they would have found it extremely difficult to overcome; to make it more disagreeable, it rained all the time.

In the black gloom we could make out a longish clump of men who stood four abreast, scuffling their feet upon the miry wet stones of the square.

With a noncommissioned officer to guide us we climbed up a miry footpath to the crest of a low hill; and from a distance of perhaps a hundred yards we looked across at what was left of Fort Loncin, one of the principal defenses.

cenagoso, -a, muddy, miry.

"He took me from a fearful pit, And from the miry clay, And on a rock He set my feet, Establishing my way.

Out in the stream a dredger, all drab with marl, was discharging one after the other its bucket-fuls of miry gravel.

At length I stood before a cage, Where, guarded by a loftier screen, Were artificial rocks, and pools, And strips of vegetation green; There, perched upon some rocky mound, Or crouching on the miry ground, A flock of waterfowl I found.

I walked or waded through a number of miry little streets where all manner of refuse was in a saturated or deliquescent statecabbage-stumps and dead rats floating in the gutters, potato-peelings and bean-pods sticking to the mediaeval pitchingeverything slippery, nasty, and abominable.

When he had done they knew why he had sliced into the miry fen on the right.

Perhaps because he had reached the perilous forties he had suddenly determined to abandon the safe highway and seek adventure in miry bypaths.

that there is a heavy weight in the other scalethat Heine's magnificent powers have often served only to give electric force to the expression of debased feeling, so that his works are no Phidian statue of gold, and ivory, and gems, but have not a little brass, and iron, and miry clay mingled with the precious metal.

Tug-boats were continually stirring up its green and miry waters.

CHAPTER XV A MODERN COUNTRY CURATE 'He can't stroddle thuck puddle, you: can a'?' 'He be going to try: a' will leave his shoe in it.' Such were the remarks that passed between two agricultural women who from behind the hedge were watching the approach of the curate along a deep miry lane.

It is a painful spectacle; how different, how strangely altered, from the upright frame and the swift stride that struggled through the miry lane, perhaps even then bearing the seeds of disease imbibed in some foul village den, where duty called him!

It is difficult to conceive how the thing was carried out at all in places with so few resourceshow the stone was conveyed thither over the infamous miry roads, how the carving was done, how the builders were lodged and fed.

Here for a space it is absorbed into a plough-land, there it melts with a soft dimple into the pasture; but for the most part it runs between high thorn hedges, here with deep ruts worn by heavy farm-carts, there trodden into miry pools by sheep.

all the way from Bishopsthorpe?" cry I, incredulously, thinking of the five miry miles that intervene between us and that station.

There was a great miry pool under the tall trees in the hollow, and here lay the whole herd of swine, great and smallthey found the place so excellent.