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

And she gave Arion a light touch with her hunting-crop, and cantered gaily down the gently sloping track to a green lawn, which looked, to Captain Winstanley's experienced eye, very much like a quaggy bog.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

The ground was often deep and quaggy, and the horsemen several times checked their speed, and went at a slow walk, one advancing on foot along the track to guide the way.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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