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

The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

It rolled, meanwhile, a blood-shot eye, insane with terror; and as it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air.

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,— The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath.

From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John