quag
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Into that quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.
From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan
This I did, and the deer ran for the shore, Burr pushed his boat to the quag, took the jack, and followed the track.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell
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