They crossed the morass to the higher ground beyond and passed along in the direction of the camp.
The boys made their way over the morass and entered the thick undergrowth.
The boys followed the tracks toward the morasssome distance and then returned to the cabin.
From the original two hundred and eighty acres of cultivated rice land, the new proprietor developed the wild morass into sixteen hundred acres of rice-fields, and six hundred acres of vegetable, corn, and provender producing land.
As the little Maria Theresa sped onward through the open forest and tangled wild-wood, through wet morass and piny upland, my thoughts dwelt upon the humble life of the Concord naturalist and philosopher.
The morass was certainly a good night quarter for the wild geese, but the boy thought it dismal and rough, and wished for a better sleeping place.
Before they got to Lake Fryken it began to grow dusky, and they lit in a little wet morass on a wooded hill.
This ground was probably in part under water when Mr. Oxley passed it, as he represents a swamp or morass in his map within this bend of the river.
As we proceeded the broad swampy bed of this river or morass appeared on our right for a mile, the country being still covered by an open forest of box, having also grass enough upon it.
He shall take a flag of truce and a trumpet, and ride down to the edge of the morass to summon them to lay down their arms and disperse.
Some stuck fast in the morass as they attempted to struggle through, some recoiled from the attempt and remained on the brink, others dispersed to seek a more favourable place to pass the swamp.
And I stood in the morass among the tall and the rain fell upon my head--and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.
Upon its front were characters engraven in the stone; and I walked through the morass of water-lilies, until I came close unto the shore, that I might read the characters upon the stone.
The Harbour of Toronto," Mr. Collins says, "is near two miles in length from the entrance on the west to the isthmus between it and a large morass on the eastward.
Through the middle of the isthmus before mentioned, or rather near the north shore, is a channel with two fathoms water, and in the morass there are other channels from one to two fathoms deep.
But no one can point the finger of scorn at him on that account, for great are his cares as he stands there in that region of morass and bog, the father of five rivers.
The /Liddel/ rises in a great morass in Roxburghshire called Deadwater.
Dick evaded it by the self-evident statement that he hadn't come, and ended in a morass of frowning confusion.
Further on is the village of Acos, near a morassfull of great rushes.
After crossing the great river, which is fourteen leagues from the city of Popayan, there is a morass about a quarter of a league in extent, and beyond it the road is very good, until the river called Ovejas is reached.
In a morass about nine miles distant from this Meer a whetstone and an axe of mixed metal were dug up.
Fourthly, a peaty swamp or morass was formed, where some trees grew, or perhaps were drifted during floods, and where terrestrial quadrupeds were mired.
On the surface of the wide morass lie innumerable trunks of large and tall trees, while thousands of others, blown down by the winds, are buried at various depths in the black mire below.
That morassis a bog in summer and a honey-comb of deep ruts and holes in winter, which, you must bear in mind, is the dry season here.
Into the morass the New Zealanders plunged boldly, only to find that they were quickly up to their belts in mud and water.
When a man was hit when crossing that forbidding morass it generally meant death to him--death by suffocation in the pestilent mud of Flanders.
He instantly plunged into the earth, making way with his sharp steel head-piece, and tearing up the ground with his iron claws, and found not much difficulty therein, as morass in general is of a soft and yielding texture.
He found the ground over which he had to pass cut up with deep ravines, and a morass difficult to cross.
And yet, if mind is one thing that has enabled man to pull himself out of the morass of brute life, why has it been that man himself has been so persistently decrying and degrading the efforts of that mind?
What immense structures have been founded on these shifting sands, on this morass of ignorance and childish fable?
To cross this unexpected morass was impracticable; and it extended so far, both to the right and left, that he could not attempt to make the circuit of either extremity.
He made an attempt in a morass about twelve miles distant from Newburgh, where an entire set of ribs was found, but unaccompanied by any other remains.
His works consisted simply of a mud breastwork, with a ditch in front of it, which stretched in a straight line from the river on his right across the plain, and some distance into the morass that sheltered his left.
While he thus spoke, the verge of the morass was attained, and their path lay on the declivity.
From time to time he was obliged to stop, in order to assist his companion to cross the black intervals of quaking bog, called in the Scottish dialect hags, by which the firmer parts of the morass were intersected.
I am almost tempted to call it making a morass of matters.
Without war the world would be swallowed up in the morass of materialism.
It seemed impossible that with one bound she could span that terrible place and reach the sedged morass beyond; and still more impossible that it should be done by the poor animal with heavy Dot in her pouch.
Hill formed on our extreme left, and, after a short but bloody conflict, forced his way through the morass and obstructions, and drove the foe from the woods on the opposite side.
Pittsburg Landing, containing three or four log-cabins, was situated about midway between the mouths of the creeks, in the narrow morassthat borders the Tennessee.
CUTCH, RUNN OF, or RANN OF KACH, a salt morass on the western coast of India in the native state of Cutch.
The total area of this immense morass is estimated at about 8000 sq.
