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

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

Tom obeyed without a word, and glancing neither to the right nor left, the two boys walked heavily back over the dry surface of the quaking bog, so as to reach their boat.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville

At other times it was through the quaking bog or treacherous muskeg.

From By Canoe and Dog-Train by Young, Egerton Ryerson

Just after this caravan had moved on we were subjected to some torrential rain-storms, which transformed the whole plain into a quaking bog and stopped all railway work for the time being.

From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney