Down and down they descended into a frozen swampy valley.
It builds its nest, and chiefly resorts among the small bushes that grow in meadows and low swampy places.
This is a plant of the small vine kind, which grows in swampy places, and lies on the ground.
They chiefly are seen in low swampy land, and appear like innumerable transient gleams of light.
It was tedious work, for we had to cut a path nearly every foot of the way, while in places the ground was so swampy that we frequently sank in the mud nearly to our knees.
The dwellings of the nobles were situated upon terraces of various heights, which in swampy places like Mexico, rested upon tiers of heavy piles.
Wherever the mysterious and beautiful thread had touched the mud, the water had dried up, and the earth had become firm and hard, so that any other person who might wish to cross the swampy place could walk on firm ground.
As far as she could see stretched a low, swampy marsh of wet land.
The springs lie near the foothill on the edge of a somewhat extensive area of swampy ground from which no water issues on the surface.
The district contains several large jhils or swampy lakes, and is famous for its snipe-shooting.
This swampy lake lies to the east of the civil station of Gurgaon, and stretches long arms into the neighbouring districts of Delhi and Rohtak.
This formed a part of three long lines of redoubts, flanked on both sides by swampy and impassable ground, and running at right angles across the railway and Canal.
About 1,200 yards from the enemy's position was a large island, called Artaghasi, joined by a swampy isthmus to the mainland, now that the Nile was falling.
The arrow-head likes such swampy expanses as the converging surface roads form at Dead Man's Curve and the corners of Twenty third Street.
Rambling through the woods, some two miles above the lake he came to a willow-surrounded swampy place, where the logs and fallen trees were clearly worn by the footprints of many generations of wild animals.
The meadow mice are bluish grey and are found in swampy places.
It may be seen sometimes at evening in swampy areas and meadows.
It loves the margins of creeks, glades and lakes situated at altitudes of 6000 feet and upward, where it usually forms a fringe of nearly pure growth in the wet and swampy portions of the ground.
This animal is chiefly found in the swampy parts of the great grass-jungles of India.
On or in swampy ground or under rotten trees on the ground (Takahashi, 1924).
It is found in marshy or swampy lowlands and is formed largely of plant remains.
Certain cedars and cypresses like swampy places where no other trees will grow.
Soils found in low, swampyplaces are sometimes formed almost wholly of decaying vegetable matter.
All the region wasswampy and the chief house of the cacique was built in a tree.
Swampy ground, overgrown with large canes, intervened between me and these cliffs.
One of those which fell was perfectly dead, but the other appeared only slightly wounded in the wing, for it made off across the swampy ground.
In Egypt, the number of birds breeding is not large, and excepting some of the great lakes with their margins of shallow water and swampy reeds, there are few places that offer any attractions for birds to nest in any numbers.
In the swampy meadows on the farther bank we could see the frightened refugees as they hurried along the still protected road to Ghent.
The Sermon of the Mount can be understood only by means of the Master Key of the Inner Teachings, which opens the door of the mind to an understanding of the hard sayings and veiled mystic import of many of His precepts.
John was a true Mystic, who sank his personality in the Work he was called on to do, and who was proud to be but the Forerunner of the Master, of whose coming he had been informed by the Brotherhood.
It afforded him too what he no doubt prized much, a distant prospect of his beloved Clonenagh, beyond the swampy moorland, under the shadow of Slieve Bloom.
The Duke, faithful, however, to his life-long principles, had no intentions of precipitating the action in those difficult and swampy regions.
Having thus been dragged across, they joined their comrades in the mad chase along the narrow dykes, and through the swampy and almost impassable country where the rebels were seeking shelter.
The stream was shallow and narrow but its banks were composed of deep, swampy mud through which their horses floundered and plunged, knee deep.
Then two of the Indians rode out in opposite directions and making wide detours, circled around toward the swampy tract.
Black Hawk was forced to fly to the swampy region of the upper Rock; but, when the pursuit became too warm, he hastily withdrew with his entire band westward to the Wisconsin River.
It floundered through swampy undergrowths; it forded a deep and muddy bayou.
The very yielding of the swampy bottom beneath his weight was in his favor.
It was needful to do this, since the shanty and its neighborhood would soon be explored, and he must, if possible, be lost in the swampy tracklessness.
