What is "quagmires"

Usage examples of "quagmires".

Like the Baudelaires, the Quagmires were orphans, having lost their parents in the same fire that claimed their brother's life, and also like the Baudelaires, the Quagmires had been left an enormous fortune, in the form of the famous Quagmire sapphires, which were very rare and valuable jewels.

Just when the Quagmires had learned some terrible secret about Olaf, he had snatched them away, and since then the Baudelaires had been so worried that they had scarcely slept a wink.

Whenever they closed their eyes, they saw only the long, black car that had whisked the Quagmires away, and they heard only the sound of their friends shrieking one fragment of the dreadful secret they had learned.

I promise you that I will concentrate a great deal of my energy on finding the Quagmires and returning them to safety, or my name isn't"--here Mr.

Now, as soon as I drop you off here I am taking a three-week helicopter ride to a mountain peak where the Quagmires may have been spotted.

The Quagmires had sneaked out in the middle of the night and put themselves in grave danger.

The Quagmires had put on disguises, risking their lives in order to try to fool Olaf.

And the Quagmires had done a lot of researching, finding out the secret of V.

The children also got a good look at the Quagmires, and that view was no less gloomy.

But it was not just the dirt on their faces, or the clothes on their bodies, that made the Quagmires look so different.

The Quagmires looked this way, and it broke the Baudelaire hearts to see their friends look so desperately sad.

The three Baudelaires felt anxious about the fact that Violet's invention was their only hope of rescuing the Quagmires, and they were quiet the rest of the way up the elevator shaft, not wanting to consider what would happen to Duncan and Isadora if this only hope didn't work.

The youngsters stared at the tiny, filthy room, and stared at the cage, but it took them several minutes before they believed that the Quagmires were no longer inside.

Wherever he's planning to hide the Quagmires, it'll be listed in the catalog.

And they thought of some glorious time that was yet to come, when the Baudelaires and the Quagmires could enjoy their friendship without the ghastly shadow of evil and greed that hung over them now.