quags

So turning aside from the path, I dashed across the hills in that direction; sometimes the heather was up to my knees, and sometimes I was up to the knees in quags.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

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.

The Lair of the White Worm 2003

I can catch the glint of the water of the deep quags far down below.

The Lair of the White Worm 2003

He looked so much like a tramp that Carlitos gave him the nickname of Old Vizcacha * -- but his dedication was not without its * ... a land-louping scapegrace, hung with rags, That lived like a leech in the fens and quags, A gully-raking veteran scamp, Bad-biled as a mangy boar.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

And treacherous quags abound where boards are varnished

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 Various

I cut straight across the heather towards the light, risking quags and pitfalls.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

And now our urchins, with furious glee, applaud their sire who wades the still frosty quags of our pond, on Sunday mornings, to renew their supply of tads.

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

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 Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Towards these mournful quags and quicksands, with their dead-sea flora of anecdote and allegory, the best part of the little talent we produce seems irresistibly to be drawn: by these at last it is sucked down.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

It was all in vain, but, in her frantic struggles, the hood of her cloak fell back from her dazzling golden hair, and immediately the whole place was flooded with light, which fell on muddy pools and quicks and quags, glinting on the twisted roots and making the whole place as clear as day.

Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917