Which preposition to use with mire

of Occurrences 42%

Recruits, raw if you will, but already caparisoned, sniffing and scenting, as it were, for the great primordial mire of war.

in Occurrences 20%

The weather had been cold and threatening, with a dash of rain now and then, and we had made only five miles that day, the guns and wagons miring in the muddy road, which for the most part was through a marsh.

with Occurrences 6%

The regiment passed up the steep hill, out Fourteenth Streetthen a red clay thoroughfare of sticky mire with only here and there a negro's shanty where the palaces of the rich rise to-day.

for Occurrences 4%

Your life has been an easy one surrounded by honour, while mine has been spent half the time grubbing in the dust and the mire for gold, and the rest fightingsometimes with one hand tied behind me!against the men who would have robbed me of it.

from Occurrences 2%

"I have only enriched my garden With the black mire from the street.

as Occurrences 2%

It is as fond of mire as swine, and shows the consequence of recent wallowing, in being crusted over with mud.

at Occurrences 2%

Generals Washington and Jackson, and little Van Buren were mired at the foot of a land slide from the overhanging bank.

by Occurrences 2%

She brushed the snow from her skirt, climbed down from the drift to the edge of the mire by Thatcher's elbow.

on Occurrences 2%

And with that he gave a desperate struggle or two, and got out of the mire on that side of the slough which was next to his own house: so away he went, and Christian saw him no more.

to Occurrences 2%

My feet grew leaden, and, to make matters worse, we dipped presently into a big swamp, where we mired to the knees and often to the middle.

under Occurrences 1%

Trample them in the mire under the German heel.

than Occurrences 1%

On the strength of it, he will order a new piano in the morning, buy his wife a sealskin jacket in the afternoon, and by the next day be deeper in the mire than ever, and wonder how he got there.

before Occurrences 1%

We are told by Giraldus Cambrensis, that the monks and prior of St. Swithun threw themselves one day prostrate on the ground and in the mire before Henry, complaining, with many tears and much doleful lamentation, that the Bishop of Winchester, who was also their abbot, had cut off three dishes from their table.

amongst Occurrences 1%

What mulct, what penance soever is enjoined, they dare not but do it, tumble with St. Francis in the mire amongst hogs, if they be appointed, go woolward, whip themselves, build hospitals, abbeys, &c., go to the East or West Indies, kill a king, or run upon a sword point: they perform all, without any muttering or hesitation, believe all.

beneath Occurrences 1%

M. Zola has created a detestable school which already slides into the mire beneath the weight of the crimes which it excites and the disgust which it arouses.

Which preposition to use with  mire