They were sometimes held in swampy areas thick with snakes and mosquitoes. From Wordnik.com. [Jones, Thomas N.] Reference
They were sometimes held in swampy areas teeming with snakes and malaria-carrying mosquitoes. From Wordnik.com. [Utecht, Richard W.] Reference
The small Laurel Magnolia, or Sweet Bay, is found as far north as New York, in swampy grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
Turtles abound off the coast, and tortoises, one variety with a hard shell, and the other with a soft one and a rapid movement, are found in swampy places. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
(In the interior, there is more likely to be a couple of big boulders across the road, diverting you to the shoulder; in swampy areas there is no shoulder.). From Wordnik.com. [Traffic control, Mexican style] Reference
The skyscraper was invented in swampy Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Regulation and Housing Cost, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It's a fun kind of swampy Billy Joel kind of song. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2002] Reference
To those who find it "swampy", "not well structered" or "not sticking to a genre" - lighten up, people!. From Wordnik.com. [Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind] Reference
There were some searches conducted in Blanchard Park, and you know, it ` s the same kind of swampy, wooded area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2008] Reference
DC is trying to return to its swampy roots ... don't let it. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - AUGUST 12TH, 2010] Reference
River Nebel, with several branches running through the swampy ground. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
The swampy land on which the city is built has been drained by canals. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Certain cedars and cypresses like swampy places where no other trees will grow. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Then, this part of Utah was lush and swampy and home to at least 10 species of dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [On the Dinosaur Trail] Reference
But it's also at that point that the drain is at its most unattractive: fetid, swampy, choleric. From Wordnik.com. [I can have my dream house, at least until I wake up] Reference
Marshy, swampy land that is infected with the germs of anthrax should be drained and cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The first single from their second album, Heathen Child is swampy dimbulb primitivism in excelsis. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new singles] Reference
Ms. ALSOP: I do feel, you know, it's just almost like the emerging of life from the swampy texture. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
So the White House waits -- one of its most important policy initiatives delayed by a swampy mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Who Needs A Pipeline?] Reference
These have been used in Scotland, in mossy or swampy soils, it is said, with economy and good results. 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
Allen is speaking in a screening room in his production offices on Park Avenue on a swampy day in July. From Wordnik.com. [Take the Bananas and Run] Reference
"But they must be there," insisted Nellie, starting on a run over the swampy grounds toward the Cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
Sometimes the pursuit takes him to unlikely places, as on this laid back swampy version of 'Mississippi.'. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Dylan's Latest: A Peek Behind The Curtain] Reference
They made a partial tour of the island, though some parts were too densely wooded and swampy to penetrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Medium to large-sized tree, rather restricted, as it grows in the swampy districts of Carolina and Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The bottom land here was swampy and bad for the operations of troops, making a good place to get an enemy into. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was not that large, and if they got tired, or the way turned swampy and impassable, they could always turn back. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
Thus a vast territory of swampy land, which once bore only reeds, now yields abundant harvests of grain and fruits. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
I took a drive down through the Lower Ninth Ward and where there were once houses, there's just swampy lots with tall weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Marks Katrina Anniversary With NOLA Visit] Reference
Rather singularly the lakes -- and there are many -- are not in the low, swampy lands; most of them are high in the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Little difference could be perceived in the soil, which in both was barren or swampy; and the same diseases were common to both. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The cypress is a large, deciduous tree, inhabiting swampy lands, and along rivers and coasts of the Southern parts of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
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