everglade
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The gators congregate near the Heltons’ house in Everglade City, Fla., after big rains, when the rivers flood the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico with brackish water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2016
Meanwhile, the dike that protects millions of Floridians from Lake Okeechobee is leaking, the Everglade snail kite is flirting with extinction, and invasive Burmese pythons are running roughshod through the marsh.
From Time • Dec. 11, 2010
As the Everglade teachers had dismissed Mrs. Preston from the first as queer, her absence from the noon gossip was rather welcome, though resented.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
And, as woman to woman, the schoolteacher, who travelled the dreary path between the dingy cottage and the Everglade School, was as full of power and beauty as this velvety specimen of plutocracy.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
"Do you know the road to Everglade?" asked Tavia, without the slightest hope of getting an intelligent answer.
From Dorothy Dale's Camping Days by Penrose, Margaret
