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Updated: May 11, 2025
I am ashamed to tell the fact, but I must: before the end of his second year at Oxford, just over, the elder of my two brothers had, without any vice I firmly believe, beyond that of thoughtlessness and folly, got himself so deeply mired in debt, both to tradespeople and money-lenders, that my father had to pay two thousand pounds for him.
On Sundays he took far walks along the coast, starting at daybreak, returning as a rule long after dark, mired and footsore, and at supper too weary to talk with his mother, whose eyes watched him always. It was a still autumn evening when Honoria came riding to visit Humility; the close of a golden day.
Can we not find some way out of the swamp into which the masterful greed of a few and the dense stupidity of their legislative tools have mired us? If we cannot, then let us submit, with the best grace possible to our masters who know how to lay on the lash when their dividends are at stake.
"I should like to go with him," he muttered wistfully. The ammunition train was in the village now. It kept the center of the road, lest it should slide into the mud on either side and be mired. The men moved out of its way into the ditch, grumbling. Henri went whistling softly down the road. The first shell fell in the neglected square. The second struck the rear wagons of the ammunition train.
A battery of artillery in retreating had mired one of its guns in one of the soft places in the field, and had abandoned it, as stated by General Crittenden. With his great strength, assisted by a few others, Sergeant Knox had striven to open a way for the escape of the platoon to their former position; but they struggled in vain against the crazy and senseless mob.
Instead, he is liable to be mired in black mud and see nothing so good as his way out again, nor will he even notice the elfin laughter of black crickets and green grasshoppers who rub their preposterously long hind legs together in glee at the joke, so eager will he be for dry land.
A great hackney-coach nigh mired in mud as it lumbered through mid-road. And M. Picot's hound came sniffing hungrily to me. A glare of light shot aslant the dark. Softly the door of Rebecca's house opened. A frail figure was silhouetted against the light. The wick above snuffed out. The figure drew in without a single look, leaving the door ajar.
I was shoeing the general's gray, and had just pared the hind-hoof, when he sent for me. A man had started with the wagons, and had mired in the field right by head-quarters.
The terrified horses tried again and again to break away; but the chain harnesses were too strong; nor did the mired wheel budge. "Oh, Tom! Oh, Tom!" begged Nan. "Let us make the poor horses free, and run ourselves." "And lose my wagon?" returned her cousin, grimly. "Not much!"
Why, we drove out from Beacon, and the wagon's stuck in a hollow away back, and my cousin, I call her 'aunt, and her maid, and all the luggage are mired on the road, calling down I don't know what terrible curses upon the country and its people, and our teamster in particular. So I just left them to it and came right on to get help. Auntie was horrified at my going, you know.
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