quaking bog
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog.
From Time Magazine Archive
As far as he could see the same stretch of quaking bog extended.
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by Rathborne, St. George
At other times it was through the quaking bog or treacherous muskeg.
From By Canoe and Dog-Train by Young, Egerton Ryerson
As it was, we plunged and strove for more than an hour in that place, the dark sky above us, the quaking bog below, the women's weeping in our ears.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
His march was not upon solid ground, but over a quaking bog, every undulation and waver of which was answered by a qualm at his heart.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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