Anon he is assailed by the tempests, stumbles over the ridges, is Bemired in the hollows, the sun hides his face, and his own is sorrowful-this is the lot of the historian; he has no choice of subject, merry or mournful, he must submit to the changes which offer; delighted with the prosperous tale, depressed with the gloomy.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
"No," said the pulp-miller, with a grin, as he surveyed his Bemired clothes.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
His active Will-o'-the-wisp may be gone nobody can guess where, whilst he leaves us Bemired and benighted in the bog.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke