At last, exhausted and bemired, I entered the clump, whose shadow lay like a wide road across that part of the quagmire where it fell, and chose for my couch a tall heap of dead reeds just inside the wall of pale green stems.
Only the bare, flat quagmire now lay between me and my harborage, and, anxious to be hidden from sight, I lost no time in setting out across the treacherous surface.
If the dust is intolerable, what must it be in winter, when it is turned into a quagmire of black mud or sludge?
This morning the Peiho has dwindled into a ditch between extensive mud flats, and we are constantly aground, our five brown coolies struggling and sweating in the quagmire of soft mud under a broiling sun.
However, I somehow felt I should only flounder deeper into the quagmire of my own creation if I rewrote the two reviews.
His labor was in vain, for as each branch struck the quagmire its own weight sunk it out of sight in the liquid mud.
In a second Charley's quick eyes had taken in the possibility and the risk, the next moment he had skirted round the quagmireat the top of his speed and was swinging up the giant trunk.
All around the quagmire were the skeletons of what had once been great lusty trees with far-spreading limbs.
Remained then only the possibility of a dark tragedy of unavailing love, and the odious quagmire of scandal.
She tried to think of some way of lifting their life out of this horrid, commonplace quagmire into which it had slipped so suddenly--and it was as if their life were some huge, smooth, handleless vessel upon which she could not get a grip.
Unluckily, he got pitched into a quagmirein Read Park, and that is the reason why his countenance and habiliments have got begrimed.
Neglect them and you sink into the quagmire from which the soul of the race has been for generations struggling to save you.
Go ask the girl who was dragged from the quagmire of shame and restored to her mother's arms whether she likes "Bill.
It is a great salvation that can reach down into the quagmire of filth, pull a young man out and send him out to hunt his mother and fill her days with sunshine.
Law and order were striking slow roots into the shaky quagmire of custom and superstition, and Ha'o was in fair way to become a nation.
Swallowed in a quagmire had made a new end for a king, and ye would have to brook the little Scot.
Don't we know a quagmire when we see one, better than they do?
He didn't feel over-kindly to the man who had forced him into such a quagmire of lies.
But, if I went on the principle of suspecting every one who cannot prove themselves innocent, I should soon be lost in a quagmire of barren conjectures.
Filth was deposited everywhere, because the enfeebled and dying wretches had not sufficient strength to crawl down to the quagmireby the banks of the stream.
The Lycus, a dirty, insignificant stream, now swelled by constant rain and draining the quagmire which is called a road, outside the walls, flows through an arch underneath one of the towers into Stamboul.
I felt afraid of attempting to guide Helen, lest the least check should send us both head over heels into the quagmire below, and yet it seemed dreadful to cause the death of one's husband by rolling down cart loads of stones upon him.
But we caught it up again after we had happily crossed the quagmire which used always to be my bug-bear, and in due time we made our appearance, in the gloaming, at the tiny house belonging to the home station.
The country in these parts is a quagmire in the driest season, but the heavy rains had caused the fens to overflow, and turned them into broad lakes on either side of the road.
Cut up as it had been by thousands of wagons and artillery, it was now a liquid quagmire from the torrential rain.
The field in which we camped was soon turned into a quagmire through which we waded ankle-deep when we ventured outside the tents.
The same spring a breath of war swept over a foul, decaying quagmire of the whole land, before which such passing deeds as these were blown as vapor.
It had rained so persistently in San Francisco during the first week of January, 1854, that a certain quagmire in the roadway of Long Wharf had become impassable, and a plank was thrown over its dangerous depth.
This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the Champs-Elysees, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its excessive fluidity.
Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire.
He had preferred to traverse that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I don't understand how he could have come out of that alive.
Besides, how was he to again traverse thatquagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle?
They lead to the quagmire and quicksands of thought!
My room is a wretched loft, reached by a ladder, with such a quagmire at its foot that I have to descend into it in Wellington boots.
To cross the river we had to go fully a mile above the point aimed at, and then a few minutes of express speed brought us to a landing in a deep, tough quagmire in a dark wood, through which we groped our lamentable way to the yadoya.
Each hole was a quagmire of tenacious mud, the ascent of 2400 feet was very steep, and the mago adjured the animals the whole time with Hai!
My friends, I perceive the quagmire must be drained, or we cannot live.
The universal Stygian quagmireis still there; opulent in women ready to be ruined, and in men ready.
Towards the same sad cesspool will these waste currents of human ruin ooze and gravitate as heretofore; except in draining the universal quagmire itself there is no remedy.
Thirty thousand wretched women, sunk in that putrefying well of abominations; they have oozed in upon London, from the universal Stygian quagmire of British industrial life; are accumulated in the well of the concern, to that extent.
The Idle Workhouse, now about to burst of overfilling, what is it but the scandalous poison-tank of drainage from the universal Stygian quagmire of our affairs?
The dogs, their noses to the ground, went on bravely, winding in and out between quagmire and rotting herbage.
But the Norman dead were simply carried to a quagmire of bottomless depth which absorbed the bodies, and furnished a convenient though dreadful grave.
Hugo advanced, dismounting for the purpose, but sank almost directly in a quagmire covered with snow, and was drawn out with difficulty.
The ground between the forward and rear companies was a quagmire of battered trenches, and work was immediately necessary to attempt to reduce the chaos of the defensive system to something approaching cohesion.
It is no use saying we could build a bridge across the Tay if the wind did not blow, or that we could build a railway across a bog if the quagmire would afford us a solid foundation.
