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Definition of Marshes

1. marsh [n] - See also: marsh

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marshes

Literary usage of Marshes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Salt marshes, or marsh alluvions, value for meadow lands. (Same 161 (pp. ... Remarks on salt marshes of NY, Westchester, and Putnam cos. (Assem. doc. ..."

2. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"But the only real remedy is to carry off to the sea by artificial channels the streams by which the marshes are supplied, and this would be a work of great ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! ..."

4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"As for myself, I have said I have no choice, but as the long, hazy, lazy August mornings slip away an irresistible longing for the brown salt marshes of old ..."

5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE marshes OF GLYNN ****** Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the ..."

6. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1896)
"By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn. Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish ..."

7. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"FROM " THE marshes OF GLYNN " » As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the ..."

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