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
Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
PROEM:—Apologia pro Auctore It occurs to me that we here assume intimacy with a man of unusual achievement, and therefore tread upon quaggy premises.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
And she gave Arion a light touch with her hunting-crop, and cantered gaily down the gently sloping track to a green lawn, which looked, to Captain Winstanley's experienced eye, very much like a quaggy bog.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The quaggy banks, now darkening, slid more rapidly astern; while the steersman and his mates in the high bow invoked the wind with alternate chant, plaintive, mysterious, and half musical:-- "Ay-ly-chy-ly Ah-ha-aah!"
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
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