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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lying flat, she began slowly and cautiously to wriggle out across the surface of the quaking bog.

From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

They pressed forward, and in another moment stood on the edge of the quaking bog.

From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

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

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

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