Sea-marsh definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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I looked at the Crathis -- the Crati of Cosenza -- here beginning to spread into a sea-marsh; the waters which used to flow over golden sands, which made white the oxen, and sunny-haired the children, that bathed in them, are now lost amid a wilderness poisoned by their own vapours.

—By the Ionian Sea

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The sea-marsh cattle turned loose to pasture in the lush spring beauty -- turned loose in Elysium! — Balcony Stories
They understand that much, the sea-marsh cattle, to keep out of reach of the dead combatant. — Balcony Stories
I looked at the Crathis -- the Crati of Cosenza -- here beginning to spread into a sea-marsh; the waters which used to flow over golden sands, which made white the oxen, and sunny-haired the children, that bathed in them, are now lost amid a wilderness poisoned by their own vapours. — By the Ionian Sea
331-339) Behind that army proudly marched the seamen, sons of Reuben; the vikings bore their bucklers over the salt sea-marsh, a multitude of men, a mighty legion, advancing unafraid. — Codex Junius 11
And finally all the land melts down into desolations of sea-marsh, whose stillness is seldom broken, except by the melancholy cry of long-legged birds, and in wild seasons by that sound which shakes all shores when the weird Musician of the Sea touches the bass keys of his mighty organ .... — Chita: a Memory of Last Island