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- noun Plural form of
swampland .
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Examples
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In a fever-stricken camp in Southern swamplands a father waked night after night, walking the hospitals where his brave lads lay moaning, seeing in their burning misery, hearing in their last sigh, the sufferings of a beloved child.
Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Charles King 1888
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He found what he was looking for in the swamplands.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In fact, there are some poor country churches out in the Louisiana swamplands that can hook you up to this brew.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Since the 1950s, Mr. Adiga writes, Vishram has stood as a "dreadnought of middle-class respectability" amid the slums and swamplands of northern Mumbai.
Quixotic Obstinance, Quicksilver Memory Sam Sacks 2011
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The animosity between Jews and Arabs is well documented, perhaps not so the resentment of Orthodox Jews toward the "brash" Zionists for fighting, for drying swamplands and for planning vineyards, instead of "waiting for the Messiah to bring salvation."
Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011
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The tallest mountain in all of Mexico is Mount Orizaba in Veracruz State and the most desolate sea level oill exploitative PEMEX hell hole is there as well and the state is not simply swamplands and snow covered volcanoes and fecund valleys growing everything from coffee to sugar cane and pineapples but a place of extraordinary beauty.
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The tallest mountain in all of Mexico is Mount Orizaba in Veracruz State and the most desolate sea level oill exploitative PEMEX hell hole is there as well and the state is not simply swamplands and snow covered volcanoes and fecund valleys growing everything from coffee to sugar cane and pineapples but a place of extraordinary beauty.
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The reason I recommend the Xcalak-Majuahal beach road is that the alternative to get to Xcalak is a straight paved inland two lane road thorugh swamplands and mangroves that is exceedingly uninteresting.
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The animosity between Jews and Arabs is well documented, perhaps not so the resentment of Orthodox Jews toward the "brash" Zionists for fighting, for drying swamplands and for planning vineyards, instead of "waiting for the Messiah to bring salvation."
Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011
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The animosity between Jews and Arabs is well documented, perhaps not so the resentment of Orthodox Jews toward the "brash" Zionists for fighting, for drying swamplands and for planning vineyards, instead of "waiting for the Messiah to bring salvation."
Dora Levy Mossanen: A Jerusalem Woman's Tale of Faith and Art Dora Levy Mossanen 2011
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