bemire

Example Sentences

• "The Minde, constrain’d the Bodies want to feele, Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt to heale, Which doe the Mind bemire with thoughts vnfitt;"
• "Ah me! while I fond wretch indulge my Dreams, Winds blast my Flow’rs, and Boars bemire my Streams."
• "There was a Cow-Dung in the Path, and I must needs try my Activity by attempting to leap over it. I took a Run, but unfortunately jumped short, and found my self just in the Middle up to my Knees. I waded through with some Difficulty, and one of the Footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his Handkerchief; for I was filthily bemired […]"
• "I wished to rise; but what could I put on? Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh."
• "True, there are by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and subs[tantial] Steps, placed even through the very midst of this Slough; but at such a time as this place doth much spue out [its filth] as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or if they be, Men through the diziness of their heads, step besides; and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there […]"
• "In two of the morasses there was not depth sufficient to have bemired an animal of such magnitude and strength […]"