quaggy
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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016
The long train had run out of the forest in the night, and was now speeding over a vast white level which lay soft and quaggy in the sunshine, for the snow had lately gone.
From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold
He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
They seemed to be a very long way off, and though he feared that he could not keep the sights upon any of them standing, the ground looked horribly quaggy to kneel in.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold
PROEM:—Apologia pro Auctore It occurs to me that we here assume intimacy with a man of unusual achievement, and therefore tread upon quaggy premises.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
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