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1. All that Terry could do, once the dust had settled and his divorce had been dragged through the mire of the gutter press, was to lend his name and his former glories to endorsements and dubious advertising campaigns
2. The old woman looked at Billy as he knelt in the mire and said,
3. years working in the mire of celebrity shame, the editor of the
4. Getting to know her (once I had nagged Jane into introducing me) merely underlined her numerous qualities and sank me deeper in the mire
5. and his divorce had been dragged through the mire of the gutter
6. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire
7. The branch was quickly sucked down into the mire
8. the mire and mud
9. Only the most powerful of witches could have made my rigid, always proper mother take the form of a wine-besotted slattern lying in the mire
10. into the mire: the smelly clothes in the garden, his conversation with Sharon and saying he was
11. It had been built around 1600 to keep pedestrians' feet out of the mud and mire of the drovers' route
12. As I listened to these songs in memory"s eye, I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending on soggy packs on many a weary march, from dawn to dusk to drizzling rain, to slogging ankle through mire of shell-pocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God
13. As they sink deeper and deeper into the mire of their fornications!
14. With a cold shock, Darkburst suddenly realised that the badgers had no intention of rescuing him from his plight and became increasingly desperate as he slipped ever deeper into the mire
15. Collecting dry twigs and leaves from around the edge of the mire, he placed these on top of the mud
16. An old combine harvester was stuck up to its axles in the middle of the muddy mire
17. 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
18. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters
19. 2Pet 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire
20. The passenger side tires hit mud, pulling her deeper into the mire
21. like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters throw up mire and dirt
22. they let down Jeremiah with cords; And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk into the mire
23. Was it all but mire, and he was nothing but a liar?
24. which said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes shall see her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets
25. did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets
26. 5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle,
27. Of course,” he said, his eyes gleaming, “I do find a gem hidden in the mire once in a while
28. tears had dribbled down into the mire and made sticky sand balls
29. are caught and pulled out of this mire of sorrow?
30. Into a mire
31. Into the shade and loneliness and mire
32. I’m going to say nowt to those bastards – ever! There’s no way I’m going to get involved in that sort of mire
33. 'Oh, I've dreamed of such a meeting as this, while I crawled on my belly through the brambles, or lay under rocks while the ants gnawed my flesh, or crouched in the mire up to my mouth—I dreamed, but never hoped it would come to pass
34. And as that once rich and mighty land sank deeper and deeper into the black mire of the sunless jungle, so into the chaos of squalling jungle life sank the people of the city
35. 3 "The priests and teachers of that day sought to kill Jeremiah, but the judges would not consent, albeit, for his words of warning, they did let him down by cords in a filthy dungeon until he sank in mire up to his armpits
36. Forced to watch his work sink into the mire while his
37. Lancaster went on a walk around Raven Mire
38. ‘Ah, I have heard of this notorious Raven Mire
39. I burned the gumboots in an incinerator in the cellars, and tossed the gun into Raven Mire
40. Many covering the fighting also realized that soldiers were stuck in the mire while they themselves could just get out at any time
41. We found her scarf with some blood next to a mire of quicksand
42. and mire of those mutated negative ?
43. following the tire tracks in the mire
44. provided so much pleasure, slid slowly into the mire without so much as a whimper
45. But how the Musalmans are to progress in modern times without imbibing the process of inquiry that is so essential to acquire knowledge and wisdom? It is this trap of belief into which Musalmans are born and there is no reformist around any more, after Kemal Ataturk the Great to extricate them out of the Islamic mire
46. wallow in the mire of repeated birth and death, and of disgrace
47. in the mire of ignorance if there is even the slightest distance between
48. I’ll press the ever-bolder peasantry into obeisance, and the honor of Family Kessant will rise above the mire wherein the King now wallows as a pig in slop
49. the ditch where you"ll lie in the mire
50. On his hands and knees in the mire he saw plenty of empties
1. He panted hard, still mired in the primeval floor, but managed to steel his shaking
2. It was my young cousin Aristides running from the pond, shouting that little Phoebe had gotten mired while chasing a frog
3. He only cleaned his sword off in the water, a bleak look mired in his eyes
4. An unhealthy team mired in hostility and aggression is the # 1 barrier
5. Now just what does that statement tell us about her mind set? Still mired in slavery? Well, between England and America, we abolished it, and not without cost
6. She knew this landscape as intimately as the well-worn creases of the reins beneath her fingers, but how could she spot the horses in this chaos? What if they lay injured, mired in the mud?
7. Nevertheless, in an avalanche of events, the government was further hampered and weakened by feature stories that included accounts of atrocities by a government mired with rampant corruption, while the flow of arms from Russia and East Germany to the Sandinistas increased, creating a rebel army from the mobs of protesters
8. and remaining mired in helplessness
9. The recent despair he has been mired in was harsh but brief, and now Gelahn’s plans are sharp and clear once more
10. stopped having manic states and remained mired in a daily
11. were mired in conflict
12. inspiration her story provides at a time when we're so mired in economic and social
13. your time mired in the past
14. Now, almost a century after this statement was made, we see the developed (rich) and developing nations mired in economic recession, street protests by thousands of people, terrorism and violent conflicts all over the world
15. ‘’This United States is already mired into enough of a complicated situation as it is
16. negotiation over interest rates (the risk premium that is attached to the risk-free rate), nor does he or she need to be mired in intricate calculations
17. stocks with high stochastics will continue to out pace stocks which are mired in a lower
18. No matter the standing, no matter the fate, whether possessing of riches, or mired in hate; one takes nothing with him, and cannot escape; for the end can’t be tamed, and it leaves none unchanged
19. Not when this school is mired in the throes of
20. finds itself mired in the cynicism, apathy, and corruption to which it has given rise
21. On the negative side they lack perspective: they are too focused on the path beneath their feet and easily become mired in their thinking
22. That business was mired in
23. reporting process for municipalities, was mired in confusion, poor thinking, wasted
24. fight was counter-productive, mired in self interest and most certainly did
25. thinking about me - yet, I am the one mired in the "I cannot believe she did that" and the
26. To refuse to accept a loss keeps us mired in the fear of that loss
27. Mired in a barren land, the corn cries out to me – I am one of the starving!
28. He must do the same thing if he wants to lift a space ship out of the swamp it is mired in
29. Fanatical forces ruled the world during the darkest times in medieval Europe, trying to stamp out the flame, trying to keep people mired in ignorance, using religion as an excuse to stamp out the dangers of literature, of science, of independent thought
30. a mired wagon amid much trumpeting and shouting
31. Mired mid biased opinions, lesser aspirants hail a single name, Avatar or mantra and try to promulgate it above every other
32. What other country would be strong enough to carry out such a promise after a potentially debilitating attack? Certainly not the sissy nations of Europe so mired in cultural relativism and political correctness that they'd probably thank the terrorists for the attack or open their borders even wider to the flood of immigration
33. restone’s dungeon left him mired in a worrisome state of
34. If you do not, then you will be mired in the deep Illusion of perception of all that happens to you and “around” you
35. The curse of becoming too powerful, too smug, too stupid, too mired in its cultural rigidity, superstition and ignorance and too far behind the times… is the historical curse that all the hallowed, sanctified, revered, worshipped Chinese ancestors bestowed upon modern china
36. While parts of the old Roman Empire that did not pay for their mistakes fully and did not learn are still mired in poverty and corruption
37. He did not dare say one word about upsetting the corrupt system of despots and rulers, and traditions his own sick culture was mired in
38. While the rest of the Arab world remains mired in poverty, hopelessness, oppression
39. mired - and one of the things that had always driven
40. true, the human race would undoubtedly still be mired down in the stone
41. path, and this applies to the more noble attempts like Buddhism, which is still mired in error caused
42. It is my sincere purpose and hope that all those mired
43. Since we are deeply mired in wars and the many afflictions caused by greed and money, it is clear
44. Moments later he was mired in a wash of stirred up sediment as the ball and chain clanged into the ocean floor
45. The Department of Education would serve a useful purpose if it actually attempted to ensure the best possible education for everyone, paying special attention to those mired in poverty, because education provides the best ladder of escape
46. When night hides her body's flaws calling under her brown shawl from an archway where dogs have mired
47. Slowly three times, one after another, from a full crupper he mired
48. By the time the snow finally turned to rain, in late January, the campus was mired in 532 acres of slush, and the infirmary was so overrun with students suffering from colds, flu, and pneumonia that all the beds were full and sick students were left lying on cots in the hallways
49. He had seen that his friend was mired in conflict over what he was doing
50. wallow, and here and there vehicles were mired to the hubs in the ruts
1. down from the hills to feed the stagnant pools and mires beyond
2. was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires
3. The orcs hindered by the mires that lay before the hills halted and
1. Thus, it calls for the examination of the poor Musalmans as to how Muhammad’s personal agenda would have influenced the ethos of Islam miring their life ‘here’
2. miring glances told her they made a dashing couple
3. The battle once begun, its very various changes,—the resistance of Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Pire's demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage of two hundred; the frightful
