marish
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of marish
1300–50; Middle English mareis < Middle French; marais
Example Sentences
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The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents.
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From that moment the world became one long night marish finger, trained accusingly on him.
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All the night marish instability of 1960-65, with all its coups and coup attempts, seemed about to begin again.
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Visibly shaking from the night marish ride, Campbell heard the speed: 403.1 m.p.h.
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Pools of water dotted the marish fields, and beyond these lay a wet, brown moss where wild cotton grew among the peat-hags.
From Carmen's Messenger by Bindloss, Harold
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