And ever again to the Potter's Field, The Souls in torment came, But the black quag boiled and writhed and coiled, And would have none of them.
And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground.
That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,-- The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath.
So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way which led betwixt them both.
But the light is at the inn, and there is no quag in front of that.
There is a quag between us and that light, and you will walk into it up to your neck unless I take you round.
Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.
No question but who jumps into a quag Should stretch forth hand and pray us "Pull me out By the hand!
So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.
Of these further flounderings in thequag he himself wrote an account to the King and Queen, so we may as well have it in his own words.
Christopher now sunk--a veritable slough and quag of stupor out of which, if he does not manage to flounder himself, no human hand can pull him.
Another step he took, and this time the quag seemed to resent his intrusion; large black bubbles formed slowly and broke a few inches before his foot and the ground seemed to heave in front of him.
I reckon, from what you've told me, that if you had walked heedlessly on into that quag without trying to test it step by step, you would still be there, only at the bottom instead of the top.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bog; marsh; mire; morass; moss; purgatory; quagmire; sump; swamp
