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  • But it was all in vain; the more he struggled, the worse his case grew; for the bank, and all the path up to it, got so quagged and miry with his eager striving, that he seemed farther and farther from getting safely up.

    The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes Samuel Wilberforce

  • Prosper rode up a dry river-bed, keeping steadily west, so far as it would serve him; found himself quagged ere

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Stormy weather set in, the rains overtook him; he was quagged, blighted with fever, lost his way, his men, his men's love.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

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  • Buried in the details to the extent of indecisiveness. Obsessed with details. (via NPR's Says You)

    August 16, 2009