Cutting down forests, and draining swamps is a back-breaking business.
Already the black hornets were swarming through the woods and swamps around us.
But Jackson counted on the arrival of the hard-bitted, Indian-fighting regiments of Tennessee who were toiling through the swamps with their brigadiers, Coffee and Carroll.
It was not until the severe frosts of January, 1813, fettered the swamps that Harrison was able to extricate his troops and forward supplies to the shore of Lake Erie for an offensive against Amherstburg.
It was the militia of Buenos Aires who marched with Belgrano through the dense woods and endless swamps of Paraguay, and held their own against the overwhelming odds of fourteen to one.
Through these swamps the men waded knee-deep in mud; in the water-courses many of them sank up to their elbows, wetting their ammunition.
The first evening after his arrival from the swamps to the west, he came to the cabin.
I can make better wage for my time in the swamps to the west.
As might have been expected, he followed down the Lachlan riding dry-shod over the swamps and flats that had barred Oxley's progress, and finding his lakes only green and grassy plains.
Through these marshes and swamps Kennedy strove to make for the ranges, hoping at least to find clearer country to travel through.
He tore through thickets and swamps in his senseless panic, until he dropped and died through fright, hunger and exhaustion.
The only drawback was the harassing and vexatious manner in which lakes, streams, swamps and marshes constantly persisted in getting across the way, compelling long detours to the north or south, when the true course was nearly due west.
Looks worse to me than the swamps of the Everglades!
The difficulties of the passage were immense: swamps and morasses had to be passed, bridges had to be constructed over creeks, ravines, and gulleys.
Suffering enormous fatigue and hardship, the force made its way up the river; past rapids, cataracts, and through swamps they dragged and carried their boats and stores.
Cut out the undergrowth of a given section, drain the swamps and mow down all the weeds and tall grass, and the next particularly hard winter starves and freezes the quail.
Red-winged blackbirds and real estate booms can not inhabit the same swamps contemporaneously.
I think it entirely possible that enough shed feathers have been picked up in the reeking swamps of Venezuela, on the upper tributaries of the Orinoco, to afford an excuse for the beautiful story of Mr. Laglaize.
That the great supply of immaculately perfect egret plumes that annually come out of Venezuela could by any possibility be picked up in the swamps where they were shed and dropped by the egrets, is entirely preposterous and incredible.
Except in the great game preserves, the swamps and the dense jungles it is certain that the big game of the whole of eastern Africa is foredoomed to disappear,--the largest and most valuable species first.
This district is a dead level of primeval forest, untrodden, unknown, stretching for forty miles inland and fringed by swamps which are anything from five to ten miles wide.
The swamps afford a haunt for the black duck, for wild geese, spoonbills, ibis and flamingo; and now and again you hear the hoarse cry of a parakeet, or a wild pig bustles through the undergrowth.
Now and again the animals waded through shallow swamps around which a thousand fireflies flitted, and from the edges of which white ibises splashed and fluttered up, a ghostly flock, at our approach.
Thither from the rickety little pier we travelled up by mule-drawn trolley car on the plantation railway, the seats empty sugar-boxes, through swamps haunted by alligators.
The Voladero is a lofty mountain, which frowns over an immense expanse of swamps swarming with cobras, coral snakes, and others, whose slightest bite kills the strongest man in ten minutes.
The swamps alone are to be dreaded; the Voladero is free from these noxious animals; the air is too pure, and its elevation too great for them to live there.
In the meantime we had marched through the swamps over the corduroy road to Lake St. Joseph and thence to a camp nearly opposite Grand Gulf where it was arranged that we should embark for Bruinsville.
In the meantime, no feasible channel was found elsewhere, so the pioneer corps was set to work to build a corduroy road across the swamps towards Lake St. Joseph southwest of Vicksburg, over which to move the troops.
After a long and trying experience in marching through swamps and cane-brakes, they arrived at that place where a large force of infantry and artillery and a flotilla of twenty-five gunboats had assembled.
So the project of digging the canal was started while elaborate explorations were also being prosecuted through the bayous andswamps for some other feasible channel or road in case it should fail.
The previous cutting of the levee greatly increased the difficulty of the work by causing a complete inundation of the low lands and swamps to the west for a distance of from fifty to seventy-five miles.
It is a town where families live in houses that have sheltered generations of the same name, using furniture that was not new when Marion's men hid in the swamps and the redcoats overran the country-side.
Fever and pestilence lurk in the purple fungi spawned by dark jungles, in bogs and in swamps where the stench of rotten orchids hangs like a poison-vapor.
When the moon came out the swamps glittered like sheets of rusted gunmetal--or, if it stormed, the great jungle-expanse seemed a chapel of terror.
They have their source in swamps and small lakes, the back-lying country being low and thickly wooded.
These plants seem to have grown on a sandy soil, liable to be flooded from time to time, and raised by new accessions of sediment, as may happen in swamps near the banks of a large river in its delta.
A] It is well known that peat, so abundant in the bogs of high latitudes, ceases to grow in the swamps of warmer regions.
Yet we know that, before the lakes were drained which yield this marl used in agriculture, the surface of the water and the bordering swamps were covered with wild ducks, herons, and other fowl.
In theswamps and along the ditches the blue lobelias flourish and the companies of blue gentians are bringing up the rear to end the floral review, begging the summer to wait until they pass by.
As the regiment advanced farther inland it became apparent that the entire area was composed of swampsand rice paddies.
In many places close to the shore there are swamps and rice paddies which prevent rapid egress from the beach.
Although the presence of swamps, jungle, and rice paddies tended to channelize the attack, the Japanese had displayed superior adeptness, and willingness to go into the swamps and stay there until rooted out.
The heavy machine guns of the regiment fired from the flanks of the American forces and covered the swamps on both sides of the road.
They advanced through swamps and rice paddies but met no Japanese during the day.
Since the swamps prohibited the use of tanks, and the mutually supported pillboxes prevented envelopment, and since the nearness of friendly troops made the use of artillery dangerous, all of Company G was held up.
The swamps and steep hills precluded the use of trucks, however, and the number of cargo carriers was insufficient for the task.
The M29 cargo carriers and LVT's were pressed into service to carry supplies, but the numerous streams and waist-deep swamps soon halted all vehicular traffic.
Airdromes cannot be built speedily across rice paddies and swamps; bivouac areas, depots and dumps cannot properly be established in swamps and rice paddies.
The chief obstacles were waist-deep swamps in the zone of the 12th Cavalry.
In the 24th Division zone the engineers undertook to build an ancillary road, from the beachhead area to the existing coastal road, over the deepswamps and flooded rice paddies.
The lines were straightened somewhat, but the swamps and the heavy foliage made contact very difficult.
Map 7) The region extending ten miles westward from the stretch of coast between Dulag and Tanauan to the foothills of the central range is an alluvial plain, interlaced by many streams, in which swamps and rice paddies predominate.
The troops of the 2d Squadron then set out in a northwesterly direction astride the hard-surfaced, narrow San Jose-Tacloban road, but they were slowed down by swamps and flooded rice paddies on either side.
Then they turned their attention to the grounds These were extensive, and it seemed probable that somewhere among the groves or swamps the remains might be found.
After this she wandered about through woods and swamps for a long time, and at length, about the dawn of day, when she had almost lost all hope, she came to the wall.
Unable to drive the Indians out of their swamps and morasses, they have persuaded them to come into a council, under a flag of truce.
In Dec, 1862, came their great march thru the swamps and sand barrens, when they were face to face with the enemy during eleven continuous days.
From the streets of Boston and the hills of Worcester county to the canebrakes and swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana is a violent transition, which nothing less tough than the human system could endure.
The mangrove swamps of Zapata had been left behind, and here the shore was high and dry, and covered with groves of palm and other trees.
The swamps seem full of the water-tortoise, and the land-tortoise is also very common and grows to a great size.
To do it by land would be much more difficult, the many rivers to cross, swamps and thick jungle to pass through, sleeping at night on the ground would cause fever, and as my map and others will show, it has never been explored.
Mosquitoes also infest the country near the swamps and lagoons.
The many lagoons and swamps seem to be their favourite hunting-ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swamps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
