What is "marshy"

Usage examples of "marshy".

It is not deep, has rather a marshy bottom, and many ducks, snipe, and wild-fowl generally dwell among the reeds and marish plants of its sides.

To her left, in the triangle of wild, uncultivated land between the meadow and the vast, overtowering whiteness of the Wall, the ground grew soft and marshy, veined with streams and pocked with tiny pools.

Thus adjured, the old man peered up at Theos inquisitively, wiping away the tears that coughing had brought into his eyes, and after a minute or two began also to laugh in a smothered, chuckling way,--a laugh that resembled the croaking of frogs in a marshy pool.

Brenda puffed, landing squashily in the marshy ground at the foot of the hill.

A lake, nearly as large as the Victoria Nyanza, once covered the marshy plain where the Bahr el-Abiad unites with the Sobat, and with the Bahr el-Ghazal.

But no brakeman disturbed him on that jolting journey deep into the marshy shore line where Connecticut paralleled the Sound.

Out beyond the marshy little islands, where the lake was deep and the breeze blew unimpeded, were a pair of seven-meter catboats that bore no resemblance to any of the craft launched by the escapees.

On the third day they found themselves in a marshy forest, which they traversed with difficulty and reached the town of Cedro Bueno.

Low levels, damp surroundings, and marshy localities not only breed malaria and fevers, but are a prolific cause of colds, coughs, and consumption.

They had explored, though only in an imperfect manner, the vast shore of Washington Bay from Claw Cape to Reptile End, the woody and marshy border of the west coast, and the interminable downs, ending at the open mouth of Shark Gulf.

The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island.

By late afternoon the terrain became lower and marshier and fields of crops began appearing on either side of a rough, red-clay road again.

You will find some of the ground unpleasantly soggy, but I am familiar with the paths that will take us around or across the marshier places.

This was not much more than a broad track, its ruts and marshier places mended with stones or felled saplings laid side by side.

In about three minutes they returned with a dozen large fleshy tubers like enormous blue potatoes, which they had rooted up from the marshier ground some yards from the jet.