quaggy

Example Sentences

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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2016

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. 

From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

There were stony tracts they painfully picked their way across, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt, and the day's march grew rapidly shorter.

From Blake's Burden by Bindloss, Harold

They seemed to be a very long way off, and though he feared that he could not keep the sights upon any of them standing, the ground looked horribly quaggy to kneel in.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold