quag

Example Sentences

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But the field being full of quags and very soft under foot, they could not ply to and fro and wheel about, as they desired.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry

I can catch the glint of the water of the deep quags far down below. 

From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram

Suburb there succeeds to dirty suburb, the roads are quags or deep in dust, the company as disagreeable as it is mean.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Surely she could never again thwart their plans of evil, hatched and nurtured in the foul darkness of the quags.

From Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Dulac, Edmund

In both these legends the ‘worm’ was a monster of vast size and power—a veritable dragon or serpent, such as legend attributes to vast fens or quags where there was illimitable room for expansion. 

From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram