marshy

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Marshy areas in the center were dug out to accommodate shipping channels.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2015

In Myrtle Beach, S.C., local boosters succeeded in a nationwide search for a living namesake by finding Mrs. Myrtle Beach of Fort Madison, Iowa, mother of three � Sandy, Marshy and Rocky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marshy silt and decomposed plants made a surface that looked completely solid, but it was even worse than quicksand.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Roelofs, Painter of A Marshy Landscape.—Familiar to the Holland traveller is the Marshy Landscape, so true to nature and so charming in color.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther

Of these the last, full of springs, will yield the best Water; that which is Marshy will feed Fish; and that which is Boggy is best for a Defence against Thieves.

From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert