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

There were stony tracts they painfully picked their way across, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt, and the day's march grew rapidly shorter.

From Blake's Burden by Bindloss, Harold

Dane waited ten long minutes, feeling thankful, meanwhile, that the one spot where the ridge could be reached on that side through the quaggy swamp was lighted by the fire.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

Next day, Saturday, 26th, Fermor, again brought into some kind of rank, and safe beyond the quaggy Zabern ground, sent out a proposal, "That there be Truce of Three Days for burying the dead!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.

From The Intriguers by Bindloss, Harold