Crossing the stream which tumbled down the valley, by a somewhat "wobbly" bridge, and picking our way through the Mixen which forms the approach to every well-appointed hut, we arrived upon the roof which supported the tent.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
I sat up again, but my strength was all spent, and no time left to recover it, and though she rose at our gate like a bird, I tumbled off into the Mixen.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable Mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity.
"Patsy"
S. R. Crockett
