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
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
At other times it was through the quaking bog or treacherous muskeg.
From By Canoe and Dog-Train by Young, Egerton Ryerson
Attributing the voice to his own unsettled spirit, Blanchard proceeded upon his road to where the skeleton of a dead horse stared through the gloaming beside a quaking bog.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
It was evidently a quaking bog, a hidden lake, and only the fear behind us drove us on.
From Three Times and Out by McClung, Nellie L.
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