quag
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag, into which, if even a good man falls, he can find no bottom for his foot to stand on.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,— The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
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