Marshy

Examples

• Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flush a tiger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bedad it's him, said Mrs. O'Dowd; and that's the very bokay he bought in the Marshy aux Flures! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As I walked down to the lake, I saw that the ground on its farther side was damp and marshy, overgrown with rank grass and dismal willows. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• 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.
• Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The evening was so very cold and the rooms had such a marshy smell that I must confess it was a little miserable, and Ada was half crying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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