quag

Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.

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!

And what with the sloughs and quags, the peat-faces and green, shaking bogs, it was not at all a canny country after dark.

At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.

"God save the king!" and immediately their horse moved against the pirates: but the fields being full of quags, and soft under-foot, they could not wheel about as they desired.