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

She beholds to the right and the left a quaking bog of abstractions and metaphysical definitions, whereon if a critic so much as set his foot he is sucked down into the bottomless mire.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer

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

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

A marsh in which, from its concave and impermeable bottom, the waters remain stagnant, rendering the surface a quaking bog.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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