quag
Example Sentences
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the carriage stuck fast in a quag, and so they cut the traces and left it there, where, two days after, Sir John Berkeley's dragoons found and pulled it out.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
An' after we'd a-had our squaïls, Poor Tom, a-jumpèn in a bag, Wer pinch'd by all the maïden's naïls, An' rolled down into hwome-groun' quag.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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