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

Dane waited ten long minutes, feeling thankful, meanwhile, that the one spot where the ridge could be reached on that side through the quaggy swamp was lighted by the fire.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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 Rideout, Henry Milner

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

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry