Herons' haunts

Usage examples of marshes.

The blue lotos was a rare, wild plant in the marshes of the Mediterranean coastdoubtless spread by sailors over the years.

A marsh-dwellerone of the mixture of destitutes, refugees, and criminals who scratched out a living among the islands, and the mosquito-singing Jesolo marshes to the northeast.

The coastal lagoon that sheltered Venice was pleasant enough around the city but closer to the mainland, away from the cleansing ebb and flow, the marshes that fringed the lagoon were an ooze of thick stinking muds and stagnant, brackish waters.

Marco poled back towards the Jesolo marshes in a fog of panic, hunger forgotten, casting glances back at the wharf to see if anyone had found the body, if there were any more of Them after him.

She was the closest thing to a chirurgeon and healer the marshes boasted, and so was inviolate from most of the mayhem that raged among the marsh-dwellers.

In the marshes, Chiano had been able to shield the boy as well as shelter him.

The marshes were no place for Marcosooner or later someone or something would get him.

My brother has been having to hide out in the marshes because somebody thought it was important enough to kill my mother, but she passed it on to Marco here.

One that claimed to have already been living here in the marshes when Holy Saint Mark was greeted by an angel in the form of the winged lion.

His reputation, carefully cultivated in the marshes, was a double front.

Sophia was the one person in the reed-fringed Jesolo marshes who slept deeply.

Had the sibling actually ventured out into the marshes to collect samples of all of those plants himself?

There was no way of keeping anything for more than a day or two in the marshes anyway.

Well, the guardian of the lagoons and marshes who had welcomed the gentle Saint Mark was ever so in its choices.

That Caesare would trust to the Jesolo marshes to kill him, rather than killing him outright.