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Thus situated, their enemy "plied them with shot all the time, by which means many were killed and buried in the mire."
Thus he plodded on contentedly on his twelve-mile march, with the snow and the mire beneath it reaching now and then to his knee, until his companion stopped beside a little bark shanty and lighted a lantern. "Thomson's dumping-place already," he said, pulling a burst cotton bag out of the sack of sundries upon the Cayuse pony's back.
"What! tell her that I am ruined, horse, foot, and dragoons, and then bid her help me out of the mire?" "Exactly: that will be your only chance, strange as it may appear." "This is very different from what you used to say, down at Chaldicotes." "So it is; but I know her much better than I did when we were there. Since then I have done but little else than study the freaks of her character.
Then from the Christian works it was bullet, bolt, stone, and shaft, making light of flimsy shield and surcoat of hide; still the hordesmen pushed on, a river breasting an obstruction. Now they were on the causeway. Useless facing about behind them an advancing wall on both sides the ditch. Useless lying down that was to be smothered in bloody mire. Forward, forward, or die.
Cassianus, 'and I was afraid of soiling my white robes'. Just then St. Nicholas enters Heaven, all covered with mud and mire. 'Why so stained and soiled, St. Nicholas? said the Lord. 'I saw a peasant floundering in a marsh, said St. Nicholas, 'and I put my shoulder to the wheel, and helped him out'. 'Blessed art thou', answered the Lord.
Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and silver, precious stones, coins.
Not but that it has its varieties of scene, and more or less of circumstances too: there are, on one flank, the breezy Heights, with flag-staff and panorama; on the other, broad and level water-meadows, skirted by the dark-flowing Mullet, running to the sea between its tortuous banks: for neighbourhood, Pacton Park is one great attraction the pretty market-town of Eyemouth another the everlasting, never-tiring sea a third; and, at high-summer, when the Devonshire lanes are not knee-deep in mire, the nevertheless immeasurably filthy, though picturesque, mud-built village of Oxton.
Nevertheless, it was possible; so the stout Hollanders, Zeelanders, and Englishmen struggled on manfully, shoulder to shoulder, through the mist and the mire. By nightfall the expedition had reached Ravels, at less than a league's distance from Turnhout, having accomplished, under the circumstances, a very remarkable march of over twenty miles.
The Squire doesn't want them at all. Ah, there he comes! I'll finish later... The Squire came in to use one of the Homeric similes of which he was so fond 'like a lion fresh from a slain bull, bespattered with blood and mire. He had gone out pale, he returned crimson, rubbing his hands and in great excitement.
The knowledge that her father had been a man of immoral habits was not new to her. His predilection for fast women had long ago made it impossible for her to live in the same house with him for more than a week at a time. But that he had trampled in the mire the lifelong friendship of an honourable man for the sake of an ignoble passion revealed an unexpected depth of shame. That Mr.
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