They started, but had not moved far along the miry road before she spoke again.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
We may in truth say, Our Heavenly Father has plucked our feet out of a horrible pit and out of the miry clay, and set them upon a rock, and put a new song into our mouth, even praise to his glorious name.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
It is a painful spectacle; how different, how strangely altered, from the upright frame and the swift stride that struggled through the miry lane, perhaps even then bearing the seeds of disease imbibed in some foul village den, where duty called him!
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies