| It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions. |
| His philosophy was not a guidebook or map, but a rough and often miry trail. |
| Let them be thrown into the fire, Into miry pits, from where they never rise. |
| And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road. |
| He was right pleasant and facetious all the miry way 'twixt Acton and Oxbridge. |
| The road was not miry, but gluey, and reluctant, and wearisome to the tread. |
