单词 | quag |
例句 | Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag! The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z And what with the sloughs and quags, the peat-faces and green, shaking bogs, it was not at all a canny country after dark. Deep Moat Grange At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood. Collected Poems Volume Two "God save the king!" and immediately their horse moved against the pirates: but the fields being full of quags, and soft under-foot, they could not wheel about as they desired. Great Pirate Stories Surely she could never again thwart their plans of evil, hatched and nurtured in the foul darkness of the quags. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag or bog, into which if even a good, or grand, man falls, he finds no bottom for his foot to stand on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 You must get out of this quag somehow. The Nebuly Coat This I did, and the deer ran for the shore, Burr pushed his boat to the quag, took the jack, and followed the track. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 But the field being full of quags and very soft under foot, they could not ply to and fro and wheel about, as they desired. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Mere captivating phrases are a will-of-the-wisp leading us to that "dangerous quag" of revolutionary change into which "even if a good man fall he will find no bottom for his feet to stand on." Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War I tell you frankly that less than twenty thousand pounds will not extricate me from the quag of ruin in which I am entangled—lost!' Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh It rolled, meanwhile, a blood-shot eye, insane with terror; and as it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air. The Black Arrow The Friar, standing in front of that hovel of death, preached to the cringing, terrified people, many of whom knelt and crouched in the down-trodden grass and quag. Gathering of Brother Hilarius I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it wholesome, why, you can see what a quag 'twould get me out of. The Mayor of Casterbridge Into that quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out. The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan And ever again to the Potter's Field, The Souls in torment came, But the black quag boiled and writhed and coiled, And would have none of them. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse And, lo, on the left hand there was a quag. in which if a man fall, he will find no firm ground for his foot to stand on. The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both. Bible Stories and Religious Classics And that's seven mile away: wi' a bullet in thy skull, and a peat quag thy burial. The Splendid Spur If you go straight a-head, a bottomless quag or a precipice will bring you up all standing as sure as fate. Nature and Human Nature And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Suburb there succeeds to dirty suburb, the roads are quags or deep in dust, the company as disagreeable as it is mean. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag. The Splendid Spur In both these legends the ‘worm’ was a monster of vast size and power—a veritable dragon or serpent, such as legend attributes to vast fens or quags where there was illimitable room for expansion. Lair of the White Worm That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,— The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag, into which, if even a good man falls, he can find no bottom for his foot to stand on. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 I can catch the glint of the water of the deep quags far down below. Lair of the White Worm |
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