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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quaking bog

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

From Time Magazine Archive

An extended mass which seems to lack solidity or cohesion is said to quake; as, a quaking bog.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Occasionally the soil, composed of dead vegetable fibre, was over his horse's fetlocks, and sometimes he had to dismount and make his way on foot over a quaking bog that shook beneath his tread.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving

The majority of his comrades sank helplessly into this quaking bog.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various