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

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)

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

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 Bindloss, Harold

These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm-chair. 

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew