Sticking points

Usage examples of morasses.

It strikes me that our greatest difficulty will be to get our cattle across the morasses to firm ground.

Surely there must be some spots in your morasses that are still uninhabited.

We should pour volleys of arrows into their boats as they pass along through the narrow creeks, show ourselves at points where the ground is firm enough for them to land, and then falling back to deep morasses tempt them to pursue us there, and then turn upon them.

They drove at first a good many cattle in with them, but most of these were lost in the morasses, and as there have been bodies of horse moving about near Huntingdon, they have not been able to venture out as we have done to drive in more.

He spent the next two days in traversing the swamps in a coracle, ascertaining where there was firm ground, and where the morasses were impassable.

He learned all the particulars he could gather about the exact position of the Roman camp, and the spot where the boats were being constructed -- the Iceni were already familiar with several paths leading out of the morasses in that neighbourhood -- and then drew out a plan for an attack upon the Romans.

Beric pointed out to the leaders that although it was necessary sometimes with an important object in view to take the offensive, they must as a rule stand on the defensive, and depend upon the depth of their morasses and their knowledge of the paths across them to baffle the attempts of the Romans to penetrate.

Already, as he had traversed mile after mile of the silent river, he had been impressed with the enormous difficulty there would be in penetrating the pathless morasses, extending as he knew in some places thirty or forty miles in width.

If we have had so much trouble in forcing our way where the swamps are but two miles across, and that with a frost to help us, the task will be a terrible one when we get into the heart of the morasses, where they are twenty miles wide.

They made but little progress, however, for the Britons made frequent eruptions among them, and the depth of the morasses in this direction rendered it well nigh impossible for them to advance, and progress could only be made by binding the bush into bundles and forming roads as they went on.

He knew that the morasses were so deep that even an active and unarmed man could scarce make his way through them and that only by springing from bush to bush.