morass

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The Prince was under the Necessity of marching his Forces over a Morass; and the Duke, well knowing it, took care to attack him near Mont Cassel, before half his little Army were got over.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Has he a turn for fossils? that is, is he capable of sinking up to his Middle in a Morass?

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

I watched the pitch become a sodden pulp, a Morass, a sponge, a lake, a running stream, What time a sad repentant Mea culpa Was all my musing's theme.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Morass, mo-ras′, n. a tract of soft, wet ground: a marsh.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Into your Soul may truculent Daemons pass All hugger-mugger in that dun Morass, But while the Rouge is mantling to your Cheek, Nothing will chide you in your Looking-Glass.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace