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Definition of Marshier
1. marshy [adj] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marshier
Literary usage of Marshier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... with bushes of sweet-smelling chaparral, while in the marshier places long
lines of waving moriche palms stand like bonneted sentries across the plain. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
""Look, marshier!" the boat - captain cries. "There is one very great noble woman,
from Madras side, come for stay all cold weather time, for make prayers. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Huge boa-constrictors hung on the trees for days, and only left them when urged
by the sharp pangs of hunger ; in the marshier places, crocodiles wallowed, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"... Foulness, and Canvey lay wetter and marshier than ever ; when folk were mostly
indoors and Lap- water Hall was barred, bolted, and shuttered. ..."
5. Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography by Don Carlos Seitz (1919)
"While I would institute no invidious comparison, I may still be permitted to
submit that my story is Mistier and marshier than his. ..."
6. Italian Fantasies by Israel Zangwill (1910)
"... the waste became even marshier, sparse twigs of desolate shrubs alone peeping
through the white blanket. Nearer Ravenna a few signs of life appeared, ..."
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