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

It rolled, meanwhile, a blood-shot eye, insane with terror; and as it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air.

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Why did ye drēve en into theäse here quag?

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William

The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John