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

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. 

From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald.

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

And then, farther inwards, as shelter of the Russians, there is another quaggy Brook, branch of the above, which is without bridge altogether.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

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)