quaking bog

American  

noun

1. a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.

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Example Sentences

The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog.

From Time Magazine Archive

She beholds to the right and the left a quaking bog of abstractions and metaphysical definitions, whereon if a critic so much as set his foot he is sucked down into the bottomless mire.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer

Just after this caravan had moved on we were subjected to some torrential rain-storms, which transformed the whole plain into a quaking bog and stopped all railway work for the time being.

From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney

First Aunt: There is a good dyke around about the marshes, and a sort of quaking bog.

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady

Now that we know how to camp on solid ground and on the quaking bog we cannot finish up the subject of stilt camps without including one over-water camp.

From Shelters, Shacks and Shanties by Beard, Daniel Carter