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Definition of Quagmires
1. quagmire [n] - See also: quagmire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quagmires
Literary usage of Quagmires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Mules and Oxen — Art of Loading Wagons — Romancing Propensity of Travellers —
The Departure — Storms and Wagon-covers — Quagmires — Tricks of marauding ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... Mules and Oxen — Art of Loading Wagons — Romancing Propensity of Travellers —
The Departure — Storms and Wagon-covers — Quagmires — Tricks of marauding ..."
3. Central Asia and Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1903)
"Quagmires AND SKY-SCRAPING PASSES. FROM this day on there was no peace in our camp.
Sentinels were posted at night, and the caravan animals were never let ..."
4. The origin and history of Irish names of places by Patrick Weston Joyce (1875)
"Quagmires AND WATERY PLACES. IN the sixth chapter of Part IV. of the First Series
... But besides these, there are various words denoting swamps, quagmires, ..."
5. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Advance Into South Carolina.— The Stars and Stripes in Her Capital.—All Opposition
Powerless.—North Carolina's Turn Next.— Swamps, Hills, Quagmires, Storms, ..."
6. Commerce of the Prairies: During Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western by Josiah Gregg (1844)
"... and Ojo del Muerto—A Tradition of the Arrieros—Laborious Ferrying and
Quagmires—Arrival at Paso del Norte—Amenity of the Valley— Sierra Blanco, ..."
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