miry

• “/ Who does not act, is dead; absorbed entire / In miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath; O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death!”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “I feel that I have a decent ability to move situations forward in a positive manor with a few well chosen words or to explain anything from physics phenomena to camp games, but in a new language I thought I would be so limited that frustration would take over and I would be rooted in a field of miry clay unable to move in any direction.”

  Personal Reflection: Fears and Desires « Peace Corps South Africa

• “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.”

  The Guardian: In the Flesh by Adam O'Riordan

• “He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay”

  Simon & Schuster: Hope Unseen

• “The by-roads were miry beyond description, rain having fallen almost incessantly since we left Winchester, but notwithstanding the down-pour the column pushed on, men and horses growing almost unrecognizable from the mud covering them from head to foot.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay”

  Simon & Schuster: Babes with a Beatitude

• “I completely understand the miry journey of wondering if God is really good and if He cares at all.”

  The new song in my mouth

• “As the dust-carts could not pass through, the inhabitants trusted to storms to wash their always miry alley; for how could it be clean?”

  A Second Home

• “Saint – Denis, never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial streets, never anywhere in bad weather.”

  Another Study of a Woman

• “It had looked as yellow as it ought to look, and hurrying on between its worn-away and miry banks, had a promising aspect of desolation and ruin.”

  Pictures from Italy

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