Marshes

Examples

• We always used that name for marshes, in our country. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I see you there a many times, as plain as ever I see you on them misty marshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I not only prevented him getting off the marshes, but I dragged him here,--dragged him this far on his way back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• By my boy, I was giv to understand as Compeyson was out on them marshes too. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They're pretty well known to be out on the marshes still, and they won't try to get clear of 'em before dusk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The mist was heavier yet when I got out upon the marshes, so that instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I sometimes feared we had missed the way and got into the ploughed grounds or the marshes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Toward the sea there are salt marshes and very few roads. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The absence of all valves renders it very suitable for draining marshes, and for other similar purposes, as the muddy water and suspended matters will not obstruct its action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I think it must have been a full year after our hunt upon the marshes, for it was a long time after, and it was winter and a hard frost. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Thus Trabb's boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A survey and plan of the great salt-marshes of Saintonge was wanted in 1543, and Palissy obtained the work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The space interposed between myself and them partook of that expansion, and our marshes were any distance off. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I see the marshes once, says Phil, contentedly eating his breakfast. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Most marshes is solitary, said Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The natural difficulties of the first lines were increased a hundredfold, greater marshes had to be crossed, greater streams to be bridged, greater hills to be tunneled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Large tract of marshes about here, I believe? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Towards the marshes I now went straight, having no time to spare. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They came in again without finding anything, and then we struck out on the open marshes, through the gate at the side of the churchyard. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Centrifugal pumps have been used with great success in lifting large bodies of water to a moderate height, and for draining marshes and other low lands. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The more I dressed him and the better I dressed him, the more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the marshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Down below there were mosquito marshes and canals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• THE marshes, commander, returns Phil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After our early dinner, I strolled out alone, purposing to finish off the marshes at once, and get them done with. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I took some wittles, up at the willage over yonder,--where the church stands a'most out on the marshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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