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

There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.

From The Intriguers by Bindloss, Harold

She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

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