quaggy

• “And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Music of Language

• “Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling.”

  Finnegans Wake

• “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.”

  Waverley

• “She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.”

  Red Pottage

• “We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.”

  Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery

• “For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heaven Lake

• “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.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “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.”

  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

• “I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!”

  Short Stories of Various Types

• “Heaven! was not deep enough to have drowned any one; there were no signs of a struggle on its quaggy edges.”

  Short Stories of Various Types

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