Sloughs
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Examples
- Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The ground on the west shore of the river, opposite Columbus, is low and in places marshy and cut up with sloughs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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