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Definition of Marshiest
1. marshy [adj] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marshiest
Literary usage of Marshiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"... it must be confessed, the marshiest of territory often, but the actual
chevaux-de-frise his ingenuity interposes between his reader and his meaning. ..."
2. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"To a thoughtful person it is one of the most remarkable features of any glaciated
region that the flattest profiles, the marshiest valley flats, ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1858)
"... except in what is called the tule bottom, a kind of giant bulrush region,
along the most depressed and marshiest portions of the rivers. ..."
4. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by August Hirsch (1885)
"... there are almost no proper marshes but only occasional collections of water,
producing no important consequences ; on the other hand, in the marshiest ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1855)
"... and Sydenham); while the Southwark and Vauxhall Company supplies the greater
part of the poorest, lowest, and marshiest district in London. ..."
6. The History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon by Adolphe Thiers (1893)
"... though shorter, bordered the marshiest part of the country, known by the name
of the marsh of Pinsk, into which we might be finally thrown by a vigorous ..."
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