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

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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 Lang, Andrew

Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald.

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold