Right over against the girl the last red embers of the sunset burned under horizontal clouds; the night fell clear and still and frosty, and the track in low and marshy passages began to crackle under foot with ice.
On the summit of a bare, heathery spur of the Pentlands are two hillocks, and between them lies a narrow band of flat marshy ground.
About two hundred yards from the tree a small brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's swamp.
We are told that the brook which Ichabod must cross runs into a marshy and thickly wooded glen; that the oaks and chestnuts matted with grapevines throw a gloom over the place, and already we feel that it is a dreadful spot after dark.
If thou findest any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me.
If thou find any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me.
In the marshy places the fireflies were seen, wandering about and looking in the distance like malicious eyes of wicked sprites.
Suddenly a bright light shone about him, illuminating the marshy waters; invisible choirs were singing sweetly, as if angels were descending from heaven.
When these Sorts of Fevers occur in boggy marshy Countries, they are not only very chronical or tedious, but Persons infested with them are liable to frequent Relapses.
There are some Villages, in which, after the Curtain Lines are erased, watery marshy Places remain in the Room of them.
The grappling irons at the disposal of the prison authorities were insufficient for the search of the whole marshy tract.
There is a bit of marshy land where rises Muddy Lake, near the road from Princetown to Ashburton, and he has seen it there.
The same gentleman saw a similar flame in the form of a ball some forty years previously in the low and then marshy valley between Tor Abbey gateway and the Paignton road, near where is now the Devon Rosery.
Two other rows of chevaux-de-frise, however, remained, with the forts on the bank of the river and the marshy island.
The town is built on a level, marshy region of bottom land, and for weeks the roads became almost impassable, and had to be waded on horseback, or the levee followed, and causeways had to be built by the military.
Jack could see that they were maybe a mile from the marshy shore, over which had now awakened the ceaseless clamor of the gulls and the teeming life of the sedgy solitude.
The house, which appeared to be of a somewhat better quality than the ordinary wooden house of the common settler, was almost hidden by the shade of two great cypress-trees that grew up from what seemed to be a littlemarshy hollow.
The little waves beat with a recurrent and pulsing plash and slide upon the beach, and the chill air was full of the smell of brackish water and of marshy ooze.
They have dug canals to drain off the moisture as much as possible, but the ground is marshy in many places and often quite impassable, especially in winter.
Yet large sums are being expended in draining marshy tracts, regulating river-beds and afforesting bare spaces; and if you are interested in such works, you will do well to see what is going on at Metaponto at this moment.
There are several large tracts of marshy ground in both the Floridas, which are extremely fertile.
The houses are mostly founded on piles, on account of the marshy nature of the ground, and the town is intersected by numerous canals.
The climate is good, the air being reckoned very pure; but on the immediate vicinity of the gulf, the air is indeed impregnated with marshy effluvia, and therefore not so conducive to health as in the interior.
The lake has retired a league from the city, so that it is now situated in a marshy soil to the left of the southern extremity of Lake Tezcuco, and between it and Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco.
The situation of the city is bad, on account of the marshy soil and the barren tract round it.
We stand on the high elevation of the deeply arched bridge, and look out on the flat swamps of mudland, on the surroundingmarshy and unhealthy pools.
At others there is a marshy and barren bit of bog land, with cabins recalling the wilds of Connemara.
He tells us, that Psammeticus, king of Egypt, being driven to the marshy parts of his kingdom, sent to consult the oracle of Latona, which answered that he should be restored by brass men coming from the sea.
This was a city of Arcadia, in a marshy district, near to Mantinea.
The Brown Crane (Grus canadensis), was described by Linnaeus from Hudson Bay specimens, and is still rather common on its marshy plains, and on the Barren Grounds.
The city is in a low marshy country, and therefore well fortified.
The town is built in a low, marshy ground, having a narrow river cut by hand, very even and straight, capable of bringing up a small vessel.
The capybara is a native of South America, and is generally found in the damp, marshy ground near the banks of the larger rivers.
Ruffs are hardly known in America, except in Alaska, but at one time they were very common in the marshy parts of England.
Cranes are generally to be seen in marshy districts, where they can find plenty of frogs, newts, and worms.
In India, where wild boars are very plentiful, they generally make their lair among thick bushes in some marshy district, and often do a great deal of mischief to cultivated crops in the neighborhood.
THE SNIPE In appearance and habits the snipe is something like the woodcock, but it is considerably smaller, and is found in damp, marshy ground instead of in woods.
After a time peat is formed round the edges, and gradually spreads, and then the marshy ground round the pool is called a beaver-meadow.
Ridge marshy ground so as to let the water run off.
Premontre, a secluded marshy valley in the forest of Coucy in the diocese of Laon.
The most remote head-stream of the Congo is the Chambezi, which flows south-west into the marshy Lake Bangweulu.
The town lies in a low and marshy situation at the junction of three canals.
In the lower part of its course the river winds through fertile, marshy plains.
Amur mountains and flowing north unite in a marshy plain, whence issues the Macta.
To the east of it stretches in the same direction a strip of marshy lowlands.
Diodorus Siculus, writing of later times, says that cattle were sent during a portion of each year to the marshy pastures of the delta, where they roamed under the care of herdsmen.
West of the Ain, with the exception of the district covered by the Revermont, the westernmost chain of the Jura, the country is flat, consisting in the north of the south portion of the Bresse, in the south of the marshy Dombes.
Aigues-Mortes occupies an isolated position in the marshy plain at the western extremity of the Rhone delta, 2 1/2 m.
On the pampas, in large marshy lagoons, this Coot is sometimes seen in immense numbers; thousands of birds uniting in one flock, and spreading over the low shores to feed, they look like a great concourse of Rooks.
Where they are never persecuted they are bold pugnacious birds, coming out of the reeds by day and attacking the domestic poultry about the houses and even in the streets of the villages situated on the borders of their marshy haunts.
The nest is made on the ground among long grass, or in reed-beds in marshy places, and the eggs are white blotched with dark red.
In marshy places on the pampas the Rosy-billed Duck is very abundant, and they sometimes congregate in very large flocks.
I have always seen them singly, for it loves a hermit-life, and the feeding-ground it prefers is a spot on the borders of a marshy stream shut in and overshadowed on all sides by trees and tall rushes.
There was much pine timber and a good deal ofmarshy land through which they passed slowly and with some difficulty, but at length they came to higher ground where progress was better.
Malignant reptiles swarm in these marshy lands, and in the ancient forests, serpents, scorpions, and other venomous reptiles abounded.
Bouguer went southwards towards Guayaquil, passing through marshy forests, and reaching Caracol at the foot of the Cordillera range of the Andes, which he was a week in crossing.
The country produces spices, coffee, which is inferior to that of Reunion Island, and sago; the latter is largely cultivated in the marshy districts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marshy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boggy; damp; dank; dewy; humid; marshy; miry; moist; muddy; muggy; paludal; rainy; sticky; swampy; tacky; wet
