Hip boots or even breathable waders work better in marshy areas. From Wordnik.com. [How to Hunt Snipe With a Shotgun] Reference
It and the flag, or bulrush, grow only in marshy places (such as are along the Nile). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Others establish colonies about the marshy lagoons of the. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Its shores are marshy, bordered by hills densely timbered. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Blanco's establishments were on several of these marshy flats. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Fire-flies sparkled everywhere, thickest over the marshy places. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
A remarkable cure for intermittent fever, in a marshy district of. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
In cattle pasturing in low, marshy places, enteritis may be common. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Some of them contain trout, and a sluggish frog inhabits the marshy margins. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Several miles wide, it incloses numerous marshy islands in its many channels. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
These stood on low, marshy spots, where a frost has probably touched them already. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
This, the ancient capital of the Caturiges, occupies a marshy unhealthy situation. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Gulf and South Atlantic coasts and about the marshy shore of the lakes of the interior. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
They became just ordinary ravens like those we see now on the tundras or marshy plains. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
They are high above the marshy surface, as if they know a tidal wave could arrive one day. From Wordnik.com. [Houston diary] Reference
A little farther on, was a piece of marshy ground, and here we made a startling discovery. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Lower Louisiana is a marshy, swampy level stretch of country with an imperceptible coast line. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
The marshy breadth of the Croton's mouth was probably too much for the bridge builders of early days. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
The water around the marshy island looks clear, but boom laid out to catch the oil tells a different story. From Wordnik.com. [As Oil Continues To Gush, Despair Grows In Gulf] Reference
"The sign's driven everyone away," the mandolin player says, looking out over the marshy backwater behind us. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Dowling: Wet, wet… And wet] Reference
Governor Wright, of Indiana, in a public address, estimated the marshy lands of that State at 3,000,000 acres. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Much of this was formerly covered by the tides, and all of it, as the name indicates, was of a marshy character. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The ground on the west shore of the river, opposite Columbus, is low and in places marshy and cut up with sloughs. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The wind hardly slows down even after striking land; in the island's marshy interior, gusts regularly exceed 160kph. From Wordnik.com. [Catching The Wind] Reference
Through thickets of reeds and marshy swamps they pushed on; the river Macquarie had entirely disappeared, but on 2nd. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Built in 1703 by Peter the Great on a marshy shore of the Gulf of Finland, it first took a Dutch name, Sankt Peterburg. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Spell Discontent? St. Petersburg] Reference
River Railroad, Bottom's, and Long, the lowermost; after which the stream, affected by tide, spread over a marshy country. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Arles is situated on the Rhône, near the Camargue, in a marshy place, as its original name, Arelas, from the Celtic words. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The banks were generally low and marshy, making the streams difficult to approach except where there were roads and bridges. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
(Soundbite of pelicans) ELIZABETH SHOGREN: The small marshy spots of land near Grand Isle, Louisiana are chock full of pelicans. From Wordnik.com. [Plight For Pelicans: Oil Puts Nesting Season At Risk] Reference
In the thick mud of one of the marshy swamps of South Africa a herd of buffaloes, some sixteen in number, stood almost knee-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
The river Chagres lolled with considerable force, now between low marshy shores, now narrowing, between steep, thickly wooded banks. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
The view of the country in the morning was, however, much less captivating; it was flat and marshy, and intersected by large ditches. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Rochefort without a stop, and, in something over two hours, reeled off some sixty-eight kilometres of sandy, marshy roadway to Saintes. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Hardly had I put my head outside when I found myself literally inhaling the mosquitoes that swarmed at nightfall over these marshy flats. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The children have learned that some kinds of flowers grow in the woods, others in the marshy places, and still others on the dry hillsides. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
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