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n. (plural of swamp English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: swamp)

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Fens, and that they were willing to make presents to the Fenmen of cattle and other things, so that there should be friendship between them, and that they should be allowed to occupy some island in the swamps where they might live secure from pursuit.

His voice, as deep and dark as the swamps that had spawned him, caused an unexpected heat to uncoil in her stomach.

Here was another flight of stairs even wider, but without the guardian figures, and it led up and out into such a stretch of parkland that no one born in the swamps encircling Ruwenda might have imagined.

Because of the time of year, we expected summerlight and heat, and the smothering damp rising from the notorious swamps scarcely a mile from our wallsbut the weather was acting otherwise.

He sat cross-legged, palms upward, eyes closed blissfully, like an icon in an old temple, the kind that you still chanced across if you traveled far enough into the swamps or high enough into the mountains, abandoned hundreds of years back.

I was draped across what appeared to be a centaur, headed for swamps and for torture most likely.

I hoped that applied to swamps and captivity, because I saw us staying here awhile.

Parta consulted her own wishes she would have retired with a few followers to the swamps and fens of the country to the north rather than surrender her son, but the Brigantes, who inhabited Lincolnshire, and who ranged over the whole of the north of Britain as far as Northumberland, had also received a defeat at the hands of the Romans, and might not improbably hand her over upon their demand.

The village stood on a knoll rising from swamps, through which a branch of the Stour wound its way sluggishly.

We will first make for home, load ourselves with grain, and driving cattle before us, and taking our women and children, make for the swamps that lie to the northwest of our limits.

I shall make for Cardun, where, if you change your mind, I shall hope to meet you, and then shall march with those who will for the swamps of Ely, where doubtless large numbers of fugitives will gather, for unless the Romans drive their causeways into its very heart they can scarce penetrate in any other way.

There are islands among the swamps where the land is dry, and we can construct huts.

Three days since, when he foresaw that it might be that a refuge would be needed, Beric despatched a messenger home with orders that a herd of three hundred cattle and another of as many swine should be driven to the spot near the swamps for which we propose to make, and they will there be found awaiting you.

We have to question the people here as to the great swamps, and get them to send to the Fen people for guides who will lead us across the marshes to some spot where we can dwell above the level of the highest waters.

Iceni had driven out of their country, and who, instead of going west, had taken refuge in the swamps, whither the invaders had neither the power nor inclination to follow them.