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

The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.

From Alton of Somasco by Bindloss, Harold

The ground was often deep and quaggy, and the horsemen several times checked their speed, and went at a slow walk, one advancing on foot along the track to guide the way.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

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)