quag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quag
First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake
Example Sentences
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Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.
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A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!
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And what with the sloughs and quags, the peat-faces and green, shaking bogs, it was not at all a canny country after dark.
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At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.
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"God save the king!" and immediately their horse moved against the pirates: but the fields being full of quags, and soft under-foot, they could not wheel about as they desired.
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