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

I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.

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

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 ever again to the Potter's Field, The Souls in torment came, But the black quag boiled and writhed and coiled, And would have none of them.

From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John