quag
Example Sentences
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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
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
Why did ye drēve en into theäse here quag?
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,— The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John
And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John
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