Synonyms for quicksand

That green strip of willow is the edge of a quicksand where no one knows the depth.

The boys will think a quicksand has swallowed us, and no one will be sleeping there at Soledad.

In some places it seemed as bottomless as a pit of quicksand.

She had married the solid Hermie, and he had turned out to be quicksand.

You never know where you'll meet a quicksand, or a hole in the ice.

That love, too, like a quicksand, too often proves a destroyer to the weak-minded.

This island of heath, dune, and quicksand is wild and romantic.

Don't you remember that when we found the other two out, they were sent to the quicksand pit?

I was one of those who helped to throw them into the quicksand pit.

And weren't they afterward thrown into the quicksand pit to die?