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
She feared that the fortune which, like a will-o’-the-wisp, had danced before their eyes for so many months, was now about to disappear in a Morass of Despair.
From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe
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
It was cut in half by the Great Morass, stretches of which extended even to Furnes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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