quag

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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

But the carriage stuck fast in a quag, and so they cut the traces and left it there, where, two days after, Sir John Berkeley's dragoons found and pulled it out.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan