The marshes themselves are formed by the streams which run into them from the hilly ranges further south, and which seem not to have sufficient power to force their way through the low lands either to the Salado or to the sea-coast.
The Indians, its inhabitants, receiving news that the Spaniards were coming, had withdrawn to some large marshes some distance from the pueblo.
And on leaving this Village, they traversed the Sierra to the Village of Chunhuhub, which is another fifteen leagues of deserted country full of swamps and marshes very difficult to cross.
Before the town lay marshes rude, The forest, and wild solitude.
The house for cleanly sweeping; And in their courses make that round, In meadows and in marshes found, Of them so call'd the fairy ground, Of which they have the keeping.
Hordeum jubatum) found in salt marshes and along the Great Lakes, having a dense spike beset with long awns.
The broad valley of the Wisconsin presents a far different appearance from that of the peacefully flowing Upper Fox, with its outlying marshes of reeds, and its numerous lakes.
We this morning made an attempt to get clear of the marshes by following a south-easterly course, and were thus forced up into a range of lofty basaltic mountains, the slopes of which were of the richest description.
At daybreak the waters of the marshes are sometimes covered with a thin layer of ice, and the wind increases the effect of the low temperature.
The crying and singing of the multitudinous life of insects and animals in the spring marshes under the stars almost made me weep, as I roamed about, distracted yet exalted, alone, at night.
The swing out over wide, salt-bitten marshes, the Jersey marshes grey and smoky before dawn!
The flat lands with their marshes were pestilential to the young men of the northwest who constituted Sherman's army.
The approaches across bayous and creeks and broad marshes were narrow and difficult.
During the rainy season, the marshes south of the town are haunted by alligators.
The pestilential marshes around Charleston yield a great abundance of rice.
A second accident was the drying up of the Oise Marshes at a time when in a normal year they might have been reckoned on to stop the enemy's advance.
It is low ground, full of marshesand swamps, which make the aire especially in the sumer insalubritious and unhealthy.
The situation was extremely unhealthful, being low and exposed to the malaria of extensive marshes covered with water at high tide.
There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water.
The marshes encroach most upon the parishes of St Charles, Orleans and Plaquemines.
The tidal action of the gulf is so slight and the marshes are so low that perfect drainage cannot be obtained through tide gates, which must therefore be supplemented by pumping machinery when rains are heavy or landward winds long prevail.
During the next two weeks considerable fighting of this nature occurred at many points along the front from the Pripet Marshes down to the Dniester.
The marshes have awakened, and are taking their revenge on man for having disturbed the ordinary life of Poliessie.
Resting on the hills of Delme and the marshes of the Seille, the Germans had constructed strong fortified lines and furnished them with heavy artillery.
From thence it passed by the towns of Korelitchy, Zirin, Luchowtchy and entered the Pripet Marshes at Lipsk.
From Lake Narotch down to the Pripet Marshes the Russians maintained a lively cannonade at many points without, however, making any attacks in force.
In the Pinsk Marshes considerable activity developed on both sides by means of boats.
The weight of the blow fell between the Pripet Marshesand the Rumanian frontier.
On the rest of the front as far as the region of the Pripet Marshes there was an exchange of fire.
From Lake Narotch down to the Pripet Marshes German and Russian guns again raked the trenches facing them.
Fighting also developed now in the Pripet Marshes and the territory immediately adjoining.
The Russians at last took root on a line from Riga, through the Pripet Marshes to Rovno and thence to the Rumanian boundary.
South of the Pripet Marshes General Alexeieff was in supreme command.
South of the Pinsk Marshes the Russians had important new successes.
Batavia, built almost in a swamp, surrounded by marshes in all directions, trees and jungles, which prevent the exhalations being carried off by a free circulation of air, is peculiarly obnoxious from this cause.
These are to be found along the low swampy marshes of the northern coast, which are mostly recent encroachments upon the sea: the principal of these is Batavia, the long established capital of the Dutch eastern empire.
The nest is placed in the boggy parts of the marshes and is formed simply of litter.
It is not numerous in Germany; in Hungary it is still fairly common, but with the draining of the marshes the number of these birds is likely to decrease.
As the marshes are drained and brought into cultivation the number of these beautiful birds decreases.
A Son of the Marshes puts it in a light which is worthy of consideration.
In the North Kent marshes Bitterns were called “Yaller French Herns,” and the fen dwellers could get half a guinea for each bird.
The Night Heron nests with large numbers of its congeners in inaccessible spots in the marshes where marshy tracts and broom bush are close together.
Early and late it hovers over the borders of the marshes and reed-beds, sweeping, circling without rest, now and then making a swift descent into the rushes and the sedges and securing its prey.
They settle on the salt marshes for a while sometimes; but often they pass on further inland in perfect silence, with a swift direct flight, and a way altogether unlike their usual chattering fussy ways.
But the two earliest frogs, I am convinced, pass the winter in the ground in the woods, and seek the marshes as soon as the frost and ice are gone.
It is he you see flying low over the fields, beating about bushes and marshes and dipping over the fences, with his attention directed to the ground beneath him.
Because the frogs are heard in the marshes in spring as soon as the ice and snow are gone, it is a popular belief that they hibernate in these places.
The same is true of the tree-frog, which passes the winter in the ground or in hollow trees, and takes to the marshes in May to deposit its eggs.
There were also many rills and streamlets meandering along from the high lands of the north, which lost themselves in the marshes or found an outlet into the river.
There were a few outlying groups of houses and villages; a road along the river strand through the little village of Charing to Westminster, and marshes on the north, with causeways to the villages of Clerkenwell, Hoxton, and Islington.
After leaving Gaëta, the first place of note is or was Minturnum, where Marius was taken, concealed in the marshes near it.
The pictures were at first painted on the papyrus leaves which grew in the marshes of the Euphrates, but as time went on a new and more plentiful writing material came to be employed in the shape of clay.
Babylonia had broken away from Assyria on the news of Shalmaneser's death, and had submitted itself to Merodach-Baladan the hereditary chieftain of Beth-Yagina in the marshes on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
He had not expected to find his countrymen before passing the vast salt-marshes and reaching the River of May; but, to his astonishment, he had already come upon them.
Making no sound, they were unnoticed and unchallenged, and in a few minutes they had turned and vanished amid the vast salt-marshes that bounded the river on the north.
For some time no further trace of them was found; but among the vast salt-marshes of the coast these efforts were crowned with success.
With them came a battery of eight field guns, which had been got through the marshes in our rear.
These marshes and lakes greatly assisted the Germans and probably saved them from the rout which they are supposed by some people to have sustained.
Lakes and marshes enable an army on the defensive greatly to extend its front; which those engaged in the assault cannot do without at any rate incurring great risks.
In fact themarshes of East Prussia saved the country from a serious invasion, and certainly checked the Russian advance into the heart of the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marshes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
