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- noun Plural form of
marish .
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Examples
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The only road across the 'marishes' on the south and south-west was commanded by Fort Nieulay -- then called
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836
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But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
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But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
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Summer the way is dangerous by meanes of marishes and bogs, and not safely then to be passed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Welshmen also which before had laine lurking in the woods, mounteines, and marishes, hearing of this battell toward, [Sidenote: The welshmen comme to aid the Persies.] came to the aid of the Persies, and refreshed the wearied people with new succours.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Also they lodged there at their ease, for there was none that troubled them: they made many lodgings of boughs and great herbs and fortified their camp sagely with the marish that was thereby, and their carriages were set at the entry into the marishes and had all their beasts within the marish.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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For he saw that the Welshmen would not ioine in battell with him in the plaine field, but kept themselues still aloofe within the woods and marishes, and aloft vpon mountaines: albeit oftentimes when they saw aduantage, they would come foorth, and taking the
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed
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For the Britains looked not for their comming: wherefore, when they heard how their enimies were on land, they got them into the woods and marishes, trusting that by lingering of time the Romans would be constreined to depart, as it had chanced in time past to Iulius Cesar aforesaid.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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Ancalites, Bibroci, and Cassi, submitted themselues vnto Cesar, by whom he vnderstood that the towne of Cassibellane was not far from the place where he was then incamped fensed with wooddes and marishes, into the which a great number of people with their cattell and other substance was withdrawne.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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II we find: "But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed."
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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