What is "swampy"

Usage examples of "swampy".

It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin.

The trio of the scherzo is like a section of some Polynesian forest, with its tropic warmth, its monstrous growths, its swampy earth, its chattering monkeys and birds of paradise.

He was acutely aware of the danger of swampy fens and the soft silty soil that often formed in such places, because of the bad experience he and his brother had had when they had come that way before.

The greasy-looking, turgid flow, heavy with silt, was one of hundreds of channels cutting through the swampy delta, and the walls of a Stilty city rose beyond it.

In the lengthening shadows of late afternoon, the schooner trimmed her sails and slipped cautiously along a string of small, swampy islands, little more than reefs choked with sand and crowded with cypress and occasional groups of palms.

Hills of ice had appeared where none had been before, risen out of summer bogs and swampy lowlands where dense, fine-textured substrates caused poor drainage.

But one bad season they were very hard up indeed--even for Brummy and Swampy.

All next day Swampy watched Brummy sharply every time he put his hands into his pockets, to try and find out in which pocket he kept his money.

Out in the open plain beyond this quarter of the city to-day, after every heavy rain, the water collects and renders the ground swampy.

And what would later be considered tropical animals could be found in North America, Europe, and Asia: In England, the Thames was broad and swampy, and hippos and elephants basked on its floodplain.

After she passes a wrecking shop and a market and a tiny post office, she spies the turnoff James Morris has told her about-a swampy stretch of pickerelweed and brackish water that was once a swimming hole with exceedingly warm temperatures.

The land became progressively swampier, yet somehow managed to retain that burnt-out look.

For a year or two, it bears well, but once you have broken the clay layer with plows, it just gets swampier year after year.

But it took concentration to keep up with her guide, who exhibited a preference for scrambling through the roughest and swampiest patches of ground.

He skimmed the treetops, seeming to feel his position with his hands because he was watching the forest, the occasional fields, the swampy spots, and the thick gray-green mats of reeds and waterweed slide past.