quag

Example Sentences

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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

I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it wholesome, why, you can see what a quag 'twould get me out of.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.

An' after we'd a-had our squaïls, Poor Tom, a-jumpèn in a bag, Wer pinch'd by all the maïden's naïls, An' rolled down into hwome-groun' quag.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William