salt-marshes

In crossing salt-marshes, your sole concern should be to get over them quickly, without any delay.

Sun Tzu: The Art of War: Part 3 2007

In crossing salt-marshes, your sole concern should be to get over them quickly, without any delay.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

On Boxing Day the Meet took place as usual, though we didn't see it, as we were busy with family activities, and then went for a walk along the salt-marshes.

Archive 2006-12-01 Joanna Bogle 2006

The salt-marshes, through which the creek ran, stretched on either side of a built-up causeway.

Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964

In the salt-marshes live the lepers; they have houses of wattled reeds, and none may come nigh them.

The Young King 1962

The salt-marshes are intersected by sea walls -- with sea pinks and sea lavender -- that you walk along, and there are masses of blackberries round the farms.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

Little Ogeechee, which stream is impassable from its salt-marshes and boggy swamps, crossed only by narrow causeways or common corduroy-roads.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

In the small front dooryard stood three lofty, wind-blown poplars, all heading away from the sea, and between them you could look down the bay or across the salt-marshes, while in the opposite direction were to be seen the roofs and the glittering spires of the village.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

Guénegaud become legs of mutton from the salt-marshes; and the magic of a piquant sauce gives to the _staggering bob_ (dead born veal) of the cow-feeder the appetizing look of that of Pontoise.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

Some of us explored the salt-marshes behind this belt of pines yesterday, up to the farms and to a little old church on the other side; it was open, and had a little ship hanging over the chancel.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous