quaggy
Example Sentences
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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 quaggy banks, now darkening, slid more rapidly astern; while the steersman and his mates in the high bow invoked the wind with alternate chant, plaintive, mysterious, and half musical:-- "Ay-ly-chy-ly Ah-ha-aah!"
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
Sky and water brightened while he swam; and as he rose, wrapped in the leaden weight of dripping clothes, the sun, before and above him, touched wonderfully the quaggy bank and parched grasses.
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.
From Alton of Somasco by Harold Bindloss
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