tire-deep

Updated: July 25, 2026

John Smith, of Oxford surely a most non-committing name round sharp corners and over rutty lanes, tire-deep in mud, across the rusty-red moor, till, all at once, at a turn, a gap of stormy sea appeared wedge-shape between two shelving rock-walls. It was a lonely spot. Rocks hemmed it in; big breakers walled it. The sou'-wester roared through the gap.

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