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

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

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

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

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.

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 Irving, Washington