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

Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

Portions of them on the water's edge that were low and quaggy, were sowed with the redtop, which will thrive in very moist soil, and gives it firmness.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. 

From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry