Crossword-Solution: MIRES 5 letters, 48 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest, as when a wandring Fire Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, Kindl’d through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive Light, Misleads th’ amaz’d Night-wanderer from his way To Boggs and Mires, & oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow’d up and lost, from succour farr.

The weather was calm, the sun shone, and the road lay through mires and mosses, and there were paths cut through; but there was brushwood on each side of the road.

When they came to the mires they went but slowly over the boggy places; and then the Irish started up on every side against them from every bushy point of land, and the battle began instantly.

Then said Eyvind to the king, "Unfortunate is this march to our people, and we must instantly hit upon some good plan." The king answered, "Call all the men together with the war-horns under the banner, and the men who are here shall make a rampart with their shields, and thus we will retreat backwards out of the mires; and we will clear ourselves fast enough when we get upon firm ground." The Irish shot boldly; and although they fell in crowds, there came always two in the place of one.

Also when it raineth once in the summer in the land of Egypt, then is all the country full of great mires.