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  • Also there are some swampish references in the chapter I revised earlier today.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway elisem 2008

  • Potentially dangerous mold is hardly new in a swampish city like New Orleans, where it's so humid that people say stamps sometimes adhere themselves.

    How Vile Is Katrina's Toxic Goo? 2005

  • Phaedre moved to shut it-to sleep with a window open was considered most unhealthy, and likely was, given the various mosquito-borne diseases in this swampish atmosphere.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • In the preceding campaign he had felled trees and laid them across it, and he had dug holes here and there, which soon contained the desired quantity of swampish water and kept the road as moist as could be wished.

    The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

  • That was when all this flat central country was swampish and hadn't been drained off yet.

    Alice Adams 1921

  • That was when all this flat central country was swampish and hadn't been drained off yet.

    Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

  • There is a chilly vapor off him -- a swampish miasma -- that puts me in a snuffling state, beyond poultice and mustard footbaths.

    Journeys to Bagdad 1906

  • "I will say that if it's a swampish place, at least it's fine soil.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

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