Swamps

Examples

• There's two runaways in the swamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The range of life of the Upper Pal?ozoic Period was confined to warm water or to warm swamps and wet ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What seems plainer than that the long toes, not furnished with membrane, of the Grallatores, are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As Cassy expected, when quite near the verge of the swamps that encircled the plantation, they heard a voice calling to them to stop. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I'd be willing to live in the swamps, and gnaw the bark from trees. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The exploration of the glades and swamps of Florida by three men extended over a period of five months in a minute search for fibrous woods of the palmetto species. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Well, one day he knocked down the overseer, and was fairly off into the swamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The South, prior to the rebellion, kept bloodhounds to pursue runaway slaves who took refuge in the neighboring swamps, and also to hunt convicts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Lowlands of Holland, Marshes of Italy, Swamps of Florida, Drained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Would you have us starve in the swamps, or have that that will pay our way to the free states. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The rains had been so heavy for some time before that the low-lands had become impassable swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Back a little the peninsula is very heavily wooded, and covered with fresh-water swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Down in the darkest swamps, their dogs will hunt us out, and find us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mesopotamia became a land of ruins and desolation, through which great waters ran to waste, or overflowed their banks to make malarious swamps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were amphibia like gigantic newts and salamanders, and even primitive reptiles in these swamps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We might set them all free, and go somewhere in the swamps, and find an island, and live by ourselves; I've heard of its being done. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The Romans and other ancient nations imported most of their papyrus from Egypt, although raising it to considerable extent in their own swamps. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The trail of the explorer was more instantly lost in New York than in the vast recesses of the Amazon swamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the Carso they were going forward but there were marshes and swamps down by the sea. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Editor: Rodney