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

The long train had run out of the forest in the night, and was now speeding over a vast white level which lay soft and quaggy in the sunshine, for the snow had lately gone.

From A Prairie Courtship 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

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