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

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

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

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

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

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 Bindloss, Harold