carr vs mire

carr

noun
  • A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland. 

  • rock 

  • A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland. 

mire

noun
  • Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. 

  • An undesirable situation, a predicament. 

verb
  • To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. 

  • To sink into mud. 

  • To weigh down. 

  • To soil with mud or foul matter. 

How often have the words carr and mire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )