How To Use Bemire In A Sentence
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I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.
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In like manner, were an adult to bemire himself in crossing a ditch, instead of making use of the stepping-stones placed there for the purpose; or if he were to stand till he were drenched with a thunder-shower, instead of taking shelter for the time in the neighbouring shed, we would not say that it was "unreasonable," but that it was "contrary to common sense.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
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I stood on the bemired beach with Dianna on the first month anniversary of her unconsummated marriage.
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His clothes were somewhat torn and much bemired.
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A poor creature is bemired; and the more he plungeth, the faster he sticks.
The Sermons of John Owen
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In their intense concentration, they neither move nor whimper while their brown fur, wet and bemired with hunting, appears all of one color with the earth like two animate objects formed from the flinty Pennsylvania soil.
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I saw your horse bemired, and put him from his agony.
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When we reached the bemired bank of Lake Lanier, a bullfrog choir heralded our arrival.
A Kettle of Vultures
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Gorge, that did be on her, and had made her garment utter wet and bemired, so that she did feel that her very body was a repulse unto her.
The Night Land
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W. W.rdsworth is such a lazy fellow, that I bemire myself by making promises for him: the moment I received your letter, I wrote to him.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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We unloaded our horses and crossed the property on our shoulders there being not more than 2 feet [of] water, but we sunk up to our middle in mud, the horses bemired themselves in crossing and it was with difficulty we got them over the banks being bogs as also the bed of the river.
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The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour.
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I plodded though, but with each step I became increasingly bemired.
Joe Antol: An Afternoon Boot Camp
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“I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.”
The Blue Fairy Book
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Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Miserables
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The grass, being sodden with rain, afforded the young gentleman a rather inhospitable couch; his clothes were considerably bemired; and his hat was rolling in the mud on the other side of the road.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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So also was the theory of its divine origin, -- a theological slough in which, we are sorry to say, Northern men have shown themselves readiest to bemire themselves.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses