morass

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It was cut in half by the Great Morass, stretches of which extended even to Furnes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

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

Has he a turn for fossils? that is, is he capable of sinking up to his Middle in a Morass?

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

Morass, mo-ras′, n. a tract of soft, wet ground: a marsh.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various