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* If not, there can be no other way to escape (if one would) unless by the plashy lane, so full of springs, by which your servant reaches the solitary wood house; to which lane one must descend from a high bank, that bounds the poultry yard.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The chariot had not many minutes got into the great road again, over the like rough and sometimes plashy ground, when it stopt on a dispute between the coachman, and the coachman of another chariot-and-six, as it proved.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

They had, on one hand or the other as they turned, the long, straight, deep dike which had been cut at right angles to the Middle Wash; and around, the fields were flat, plashy, and heavy-looking with the mud of February.

John Caldigate 2004

Away went these upon their errand to the sea, and then came back the grating roar and plashy jerks of launching, the plunging, and the gurgling, and the quiet murmur of cleft waves.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

They found it a plashy, swampy place, prolific in mangroves and true ferns, with here and there a cultivated patch.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

To reach the station Kobi, we still had to descend about five versts, across ice-covered rocks and plashy snow.

A Hero of Our Time 2003

But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himself through the clinging underbush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track, with an unweariable activity that astonished him.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The hotel lodged in the "complex" is plashy with fake waterfalls — three fountains in a coin.

Dead Heat Dumb-Out Wills, Garry 1976

And so the two in high glee started behind old Dobbin, and jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads, which had not been mended after their winter's wear, towards the dwelling of the wizard.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Most unwisely we had neglected to take a meal before starting, not expecting the district to be so plashy and unwholesome as it proved to be.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn