quaggy
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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
Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales.
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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