quaggy
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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
Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss
And then, farther inwards, as shelter of the Russians, there is another quaggy Brook, branch of the above, which is without bridge altogether.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
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 Mary Cholmondeley
These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm-chair.
From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang
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