swampy

• “A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage.”

  Hudson Bay

• “Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “The pilots changed course and headed for an airport near McComb, Mississippi but the plane stalled near Gillsburg, Mississippi and crashed in swampy woods.”

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• “Once I came home, I had lost the golden thread that was guiding me and to make matters worse, I had come to a portion of the book I call the swampy middle of doom.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “(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.)”

  Traffic control, Mexican style

• “They were sometimes held in swampy areas teeming with snakes and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.”

  Utecht, Richard W.

• “They were sometimes held in swampy areas thick with snakes and mosquitoes.”

  Ramsey, Douglas K.

• “We have spruce, poplar and jack pine mainly, and the graceful tamarac of hard enduring texture in swampy places.”

  The Peace River Country, Past, Present and Future

• “The small Laurel Magnolia, or Sweet Bay, is found as far north as New York, in swampy grounds.”

  Rural Hours

• “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.”

  The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

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