Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Music of Language] Reference
They must honor that pact, he told her, they must honor it even if it was frustrating, unnecessary, or outright senseless to honor it, because not to honor it would create more quaggy willy-nilliness in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
While we were there, a pleasant match was struck up betwixt a female called Pear (a tight thing, as we thought, but by some, who knew better things, said to be quaggy and flabby), and a young soft male, called Cheese, somewhat sandy. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Captain Winstanley's experienced eye, very much like a quaggy bog. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference
Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Trail] Reference
I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
Heaven! was not deep enough to have drowned any one; there were no signs of a struggle on its quaggy edges. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Portage] Reference
There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Intriguers] Reference
Portions of them on the water's edge that were low and quaggy, were sowed with the redtop, which will thrive in very moist soil, and gives it firmness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
Pear (a tight thing, as we thought, but by some, who knew better things, said to be quaggy and flabby), and a young soft male, called Cheese, somewhat sandy. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm-chair. From Wordnik.com. [Angling Sketches] Reference
Even the place where the booths were situated was quaggy and muddy, but the soldiers had covered it with a thick layer of chips and branches of fir and pine-trees, which enabled them to camp upon it as upon perfectly dry ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy] Reference
For a while he was content to feel the buffeting, caused by his rapid pace, of wind and rain against his depressed head and shoulders in a sheer brutal sense of opposition and power, or to relieve his pent-up excitement by dashing through overflowed gullies in the road or across the quaggy, sodden edges of meadowland, until he had controlled Redskin's rebellious extravagance into a long steady stride. From Wordnik.com. [Clarence] Reference
It’s why I like quaggy; a fun-sounding word; a word a quirky character might use. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Music of Language] Reference
A thought of their past differences, they ran like very children down the moist and rocky slope that led to the quaggy meadow. From Wordnik.com. [Thankful Blossom] Reference
Ever from river or from lakelet the steamer glides again into canal or bayou, -- from bayou or canal once more into lake or bay; and sometimes the swamp-forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast: the storm-roar of billions of reptile voices chanting in cadence, -- rhythmically surging in stupendous crescendo and diminuendo, -- a monstrous and appalling chorus of frogs!. From Wordnik.com. [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference
I picture hooves pounding quaggy ground. From Wordnik.com. [Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween] Reference
In that wide waste of quaggy peat. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1911-12] Reference
The quaggy banks were frozen hard now. From Wordnik.com. [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference
The swamp is quaggy, the summit rocky. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
Through sinking sands, through quaggy lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
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