morasses

Beyond the morasses are the marshes and dry fields, while the castle can be approached only by the dike.

The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Besides the argillaceous sand-stone produced from morasses, which is stratified with clay, and coal, and iron, other great beds of siliceous sand have been formed in the sea by the combination of an unknown acid from morasses, and the calcareous matters of the ocean.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

The great abundance of siliceous sand at the bottom of the ocean may in part be washed down from the siliceous rocks above described, but in general I suppose it derives its acid only from the vegetable and animal matter of morasses, which is carried down by floods or by the atmosphere, and becomes united in the sea with its calcareous base from shells and coralloids, and thus assumes its crystalline form at the bottom of the ocean, and is there intermixed with gravel or other matters washed from the mountains in its vicinity.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

Mangrove communities found in "morasses" or large wetland areas may be in basins isolated from the sea by sand barriers, and are usually associated with various forms of swamp vegetation.

Greater Antilles mangroves 2008

In the political arena, too, China has avoided the kind of morasses in Afghanistan, and Iraq before that, in which the USA and other Western countries have bogged themselves.

unknown title 2009

They chased us into the blueberry swamp, but we knew the tree-paths across the farther morasses where they could not follow on the ground, and so we escaped.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

Perry: Obtain a terminal degree and lecture on legal morasses.

Perry Binder: The Case for Humor in the College Classroom Perry Binder 2010

Maybe now the agency will get the message and turn its attention to the regulatory morasses it actually has jurisdiction over.

End of the Net Neut Fetish? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

Maybe now the agency will get the message and turn its attention to the regulatory morasses it actually has jurisdiction over.

End of the Net Neut Fetish? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010

Whether a blue-meshed incarcerate in the North West Frontier, whether a silent wife in the godless backwaters of Baluchistan, whether a raped mother in the dust bowls of Darfur, whether a prepubescent child facing genital mutilation in the morasses of Somalian misery, Saudi women will be able to advocate for fellow Muslim women with new confidence and real reach.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Trapped in the Other Gulf Oil Slick -- Saudi Women Tell Mr. President: Set Us Free! 2010