morass

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Into your Soul may truculent Daemons pass All hugger-mugger in that dun Morass, But while the Rouge is mantling to your Cheek, Nothing will chide you in your Looking-Glass.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

The Prince was under the Necessity of marching his Forces over a Morass; and the Duke, well knowing it, took care to attack him near Mont Cassel, before half his little Army were got over.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

She feared that the fortune which, like a will-o’-the-wisp, had danced before their eyes for so many months, was now about to disappear in a Morass of Despair.

From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe

Upon the Junction of the French and Bavarian Armies they took Post behind a great Morass which they thought impracticable.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

I watched the pitch become a sodden pulp, a Morass, a sponge, a lake, a running stream, What time a sad repentant Mea culpa Was all my musing's theme.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir