How To Use Swamp In A Sentence

And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Clear information boards indicate the location of different types of trees which include Persian, Japanese and black walnut trees, coastal and dawn redwoods, cedar of Lebanon, atlas and deodar cedars, and swamp cypresses.
Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion

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How much do you know about the South: the forests of the southern Appalachians, the swamps and bayous, the barrier islands, keys, and coral reefs?
front-page "ahed" today-a first-hand, real-time look at the layoffs that are swamping the economy. CJR
Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
And unlike the previous use of archaic folk tunes, Cajun stomps and swamp water boogies just don't have the same traditionalist staying power.
The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses. Fire The Sky
It is also nationally important for breeding African spoonbills (Platalea alba) and purple swamp-hens (Porphyrio porphyrio). Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
The study area is near the southern margin of the coal field, a structural boundary, not an erosional edge of the palaeoswamp.
Our already overcrowded court rooms could be swamped with such otherwise upright and law abiding citizens.
But the report dismisses claims that Leeds is swamped by asylum seekers who have access to a wide range of benefits.
At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
They swamped out a small landing strip.
Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
`Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin. GOODBYE CURATE
Most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
Thin coals mark periods of swamp conditions on the floodplain, although some palaeosol profiles suggest relatively well-drained conditions, including a thin calcrete.
Growth, being exponential in nature, will rapidly swamp the essentially linear savings by efficiency gains. Times, Sunday Times
The dam burst, swamping the valley and hundreds of homes.
Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
In Cuba, huge waves crashed into Havana, swamping neighborhoods up to four blocks inland with floodwaters reaching up to nearly a meter in some places.
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
It found evidence of extensive oil pollution of lakes, rivers and groundwater and of the destruction of virgin swamp and forest.
A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
While Liu's directive appeared to give the poor peasant leagues an important role, in practice they were swamped by huge ‘human wave’ work teams.
Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
In addition, the ironclad had little freeboard, so it was susceptible to being swamped.
The government ordered the evacuation of 11 other villages believed to be at risk, as bad weather brought more landslips and turned whole areas into swamps.
She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy. Generals, Confederate States of America, Biography, Soldiers, Louisiana, Southern States, Army, Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 9th., History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives, United States, Campaigns, Military Life, Reconstruction.
Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges.
Perhaps the most chilling thought is that by the standards of other internet security issues, swamping attacks are a relatively mild problem. Times, Sunday Times
Many people depend on mangrove swamps for wood for construction, craft materials, medicines and honey.
As a senior administrator, Pat was swamped with preparations.
To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
Here the great void over the altar swamps and swallows the tiny little Christ.
They could not move their heavy mortars over the swampy ground.
He was swamped in it, slowly sinking in to the mire of documents and decisions he could no longer even think of how to make.
Florida admits defeat in fight to eradicate exotic purple swamphen Records don't support Florida Lt. Gov. South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
Swamps extend from the river to their base, and penetrate their valleys, which are extremely malarious: these forests are frequented by timber-cutters, who fell jarool (_Lagerstroemia Himalayan Journals — Complete
Plus she has her own airboat to cruise the swamps for no apparent reason.
A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
Meanwhile Blackburn, frantically seeking to empty the boat after a wave had swamped it, accidentally bailed his own mittens over the side.
The vegetation types of the mid-montane subzone are mixed mid-montane forest, Castanopsis forest, Nothofagus forest, coniferous forest, mid-montane swamp forest, mid-montane sedge-grass swamp, mid-montane Phragmites grass swamps, mid-montane Miscanthus grassland and succession on abandoned gardens. Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
Following Blockley's death, his parents founded the Leo Blockley Memorial Campaign, which campaigns for safer rowing boats with the ability to withstand swamping or sinking.
With that, I flew off and landed in a muddy heap in the swampy infield, while the bike sagged directly to the ground.
The hotels are rammed and many of the big sights are swamped. Times, Sunday Times
Carl, a 22-year-old salesman, heard officers shout ‘armed police’, and then the road was swamped with police vehicles.
The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.
McPherson, in his report, says that the region inhabited by the Croatans is a low woodland, swampy region, locally known as pocosin land, abounding in whortleberries and black berries, which bring some revenue to the people. The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina. Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools
Six-foot waves crash over the sides of the landing craft and several are swamped.
A writer in the "Mercury" says: "The root of the buttonwood or crane willow, a shrub which is conspicuous in our swamps in the spring, when boiled with honey and cumfrey, makes a pleasant syrup, which is the most effective remedy known to me in diseases of the lungs. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
Behind the lagoons and swamps of the coastal belt is an area of thick forest. Geography Basic Facts
Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
Rolling hills, jagged rock barrens, steaming swamps, and dusty grey ashlands all appear crisp and clean to the eye and have an amazing amount of variety.
In this form it presumably could be maintained in a population against the tendency to swamping by intercrossing.
The croak of the great blue heron sounded again; then far away, mysterious and spirit-like, floated a soft _qua, qua, qua_ -- the cry of the least bittern out of the heart of the swamp. Roof and Meadow
The seismogram from the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory is also nifty, when their webserver isn’t swamped! Earthquake at cvillenews.com
But claims of a huge population boom swamping services are disputed.
They spotted a multi-storey building and got to the fourth floor when the wave hit, completely swamping the entire three floors below.
As the generations go by, under the assumption of blending inheritance, variation is bound to become swamped.
On the coasts, the Caribbean to the east and the Pacific to the west, there were mangrove swamps with frigate birds, great egrets, pelicans, skimmers, sanderlings and vultures.
There's also a chase scene in a swamp, towards the end of the film, that is a minor masterpiece of sound, camerawork, and atmosphere.
Grant and his staff already have a pledge from the fertile swamp grounds in Terrance Saintil. Pipelines: Coaches rely on relationships
W.A. DiMichele has argued that free-sporing heterospory will only be favored in swamp environments, where gametes can move easily between unisexual gametophytes.
You could smell the swamp gas a mile off.
On the floor of the basins lie deserts, lakes and swamps.
The open window let in the sound of evening frogs croaking in the nearby swamp.
Let us assume that the railways, mines, and the leading "trusts" are nationalized, public utilities municipalized, and the national and local governments busily engaged on canals, roads, forests, deserts, and swamps. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
At present it is little more than a swampland, with pools of standing water, rubble, mounds of earth and stone and other building waste.
The park spreads out behind the mouth of the river, where each day at twilight a flood of scarlet macaws migrates from the tropical forest to the mangrove swamps.
The shale beds above and below the coal seams range in depth from twenty to sixty feet and represent a period when the sea advanced and flooded the swamplands in which the forests grew.
The wall-of-water theory is that in a lashing force - nine storm in the Irish Sea, a huge wave built up, swamped the vessel and pushed it below the surface.
Waves swamped towns and villages in East Anglia. The Sun
Track four rises out of hiss, radio signals, sundry bleeps and breath like the atmosphere rising out of a tropical swamp.
Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache.
But I thought the more notable aspect of the speech was that this was a term dredged up from the lowest and most radical blogospheric swamps, which have long used that term when discussing The Terrorists. Archive 2006-11-01
I had ignorantly imagined the Louisiana swamp as godforsakenly muggy, buggy, and hot.
Every spring, female lemon sharks return to give birth in the shallow waters of a lagoon edged by a mangrove swamp.
Of that land base, less than half is productive forestland, the balance made up of swamps, lakes, muskeg and rocks.
When we announced our second annual Proud Community Awards a few months ago, we were swamped with nominations.
Visit ponds, swamps, fragile marshes, and pretty beaches along the Chesapeake, or fish the area's many streams and rivers.
Visitors will be attuned to the ‘music’ of the swamp with the calls of woodpeckers, barred owls and limpkins along the ‘On the Boardwalk’ exhibit.
There is, however, with us, an inclination to apply this word particularly to those purer and more compact sorts which are adapted for fuel, while to the lighter, less decomposed or more weathered kinds, and to those which are considerably intermixed with soil or silt, the term muck or swamp muck is given. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
Angry staffs swamped the company with complaints.
Mosquitoes whined for blood, the long grass and swamp land around producing a fine pedigree for aggression and prophylactic resistance. A DARKENING STAIN
Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
More parts of the city, which has already seen its dyke breached and low-lying areas swamped, have been flooded.
A conservation success story is crawling through the swamplands of South Florida, northernmost home of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus.
Krishna Pandit did the same and was extremely happy when the snake guided him through the swampy and marshy land, until he reached the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree.
This is a very large catchment with a high rainfall and large swamps within the river basin.
The last part of the drive on a road causewayed through the endless mangrove swamp impresses the imagination strongly by its dolefulness. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Coral reefs provide protection to coastal areas and protect delicate coastal wetlands and mangrove swamps from storms.
The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums.
The pair brawl at a party, then take matters outside into the swamp. The Sun
It is true that sandy uplands have forests of loblolly and slash pine, and that baldcypress is a dominant tree in swamps; but such vegetation represents either xerophytic and hydrophytic forms in excessively dry or wet habitats, or second-growth forest following fire and deforestation. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
The road from the guard gate to the recruit depot, the publicly accessible part of the base, is built up from the swampland that borders on both sides.
The pair brawl at a party, then take matters outside into the swamp. The Sun
If he did, he'd have found himself in a cruel parody of Gilligan's Island, a region of thick mangrove swamps and tribes of headhunters and cannibals.
Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment.
On the plains, the banks of rivers and billabongs were festooned with tall reeds and wild tangles of coolabah, swamp oak and river gum roots.
A bird of southern swamps, the Anhinga is known as the Water-Turkey for its swimming habits and broad tail.
The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor
Many of the terai grasslands and floodplain forests support five deer species (swamp deer, sambar, axis deer, hog deer, and barking deer), an unusually diverse assemblage of cervids. Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Heavily swollen with monsoon rains in mid-July, the river breached its earth embankments swamping large areas of the district within half an hour.
Thin, faint yellow collars on trunks of cypress and tupelo rimming the old slough recorded the regression of recent flooding in the swamp.
The area of low-lying swamp or marsh, as revealed through archaeology, is shown in brown.
As he watched, one jumped across what was clearly a swampy patch round a small spring. A DEATH IN TIME
New tracts of lands would be cultivated upon the Canal margin, and, encouraged by the State's example the proprietors of all the great unimproved tracts of Swamp lands will form themselves into Drainage Companies, by which method alone can we ever hope to witness the complete reclamation of the dismals of the seaboard. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
A brave dad died trying to save his two young sons after a freak gust of wind swamped their boat with water.
Other mammals found here include elephants, lions, forest buffaloes, warthogs, and a variety of antelopes such as waterbuck, reedbuck, common duiker, and even the swamp-dwelling sitatunga, the most aquatic of the antelopes. Ecoregions of Congo, Democratic Republic of (WWF)
While the thylacine, the devil, and the eastern quoll had been lost altogether, two minuscule species the white-footed dunnart and the swamp antechinus, a couple of mousy carnivorous marsupials did maintain populations on some of the tiny islands. The Song of The Dodo
The road on which the Federals marched passed by the mill and was bordered on the left by millponds and swamps and on the right by a swamp that extended into the Wateree River.
The bunyip lives in creeks, swamps, and billabongs and has a loud, bellowing cry.
However, the reports of both bodies were swamped by partisan polemics in the ongoing battle between federal Labor Governments and their political opponents.
Each hotel-casino has its trademark -- musical fountains, a half-scale Eiffel Tower, a roller coaster -- but inside they're almost identical: a fetid swamp of beeping, blooping, flashing slot machines, swarming with millions of elderly addicts on three-wheeler scooters. Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper
Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
During high river discharges, overbank flows flooded extensive areas of the delta plain, creating swamps, coastal lakes and ephemeral channels.
The heavy rain that has swamped much of the country is going to move towards northwest Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
How about that, Josh; wouldn't you call a bog a swamp, too?" asked The Boy Scouts of Lenox
His words were swamped by the laughter.
Gain is novelist Richard Powers's attempt to make up this lost ground in one great pole vault; to loft the novel of American enterprise over the old swamps of socialism, Darwinism, and absurdism into a new place.
This is life in a swamp, a primeval wet forest from which the great diversity of Australia's modern fauna sprung.
Although swamped, the visitors had the satisfaction of Gareth Marks scoring three touchdowns, while Adrian Owen also caught the eye.
The company's helpline was swamped with calls as commuters and family members tried to find out details of the incident. Times, Sunday Times
Foreign cars have swamped the UK market.
Lismore Lake provides a variety of habitat for swamp hen, ibis, egrets, and herons as well as many small waders.
Alligators of the Dismal Swamp, and are always lying by to drag the Golden Our Mutual Friend
The mangrove swamps, tidal flats and sandy isles around the lake become their home for two full months.
It has recently been suggested that a deck hatch was missing from the Solway Harvester and this could have allowed water to swamp the hold, sinking the boat in minutes.
A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
Open water falling within the delineation was discounted, but mire and swamp forest were not.
But my in-house appetizer of lime-colored watercress risotto had a viscid, swampy texture, which wasn't helped by the three fatty pieces of short rib on top.
First up, the swamp, and a ride through it on an airboat. The Sun
That first look down the length of the boardwalk, the black line of trees between sunset-fired sky and swamp, the dun bulk of a wild pony in the scrub or a heron's pose in a field of reeds… the moment is unique, but it moves all of us just the same.
1 To promote my first novel, In the Dismal Swamp, which is coming out in June 2008. Archive 2007-12-01
In the mid-1970s, he claimed to have received a calling from God to transform two acres of swampland on his property into a sculpture park, which he named Paradise Garden.
When they were small enough, swamplands were drained and then used to pasture animals or planted with crops.
The common cranberry (_oxycoccos palustris_,) is distinguished from the preceding by its growing on moist sphagnous spots, and is hence called _maskoego-meena_ swamp-berry. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Cormorants and anhingas live in freshwater wetlands, swamps, lakes, rivers, and estuaries (wet areas near the ocean where freshwater and saltwater mix).
Her nascent brand, East Hampton Edibles, sells "butter brickle," a confection of crunchy caramel, chocolate and macadamia nuts available at local stores like Round Swamp Farm in East Hampton and the Elegant Setting in Southampton. Banker Builds a Candy Business in Bits and Pieces
During the hurricane, the one-story bar was swamped by the tidal surge.
And stay offa my wetlands, snake-infested ankle-deep morassy-swamp lawn!!! Gator Update (Free Bill Warner! Edition)
From the earliest battles against swamps and unpredictable tides, to the occurrence of fatal wharfside fires, the history of Port Adelaide is infused with misfortune and tragedy.
The barasingha deer, also known as swamp deer, occur in the moist habitats of Northern India and Nepal.
The match was reduced to a farce as heavy snow swamped the pitch and reduced visibility like a fog. Times, Sunday Times
Phase two of the swamphen plan is to fit electronic monitors to five birds in Broward and five in Palm Beach County as an aid to studying their habits. South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
Elvis lives with his unemployed, alcoholic father in a swampland slum where even a trip to the local watering hole is tinged with danger.
Quoted in Jameson, where the lines are treated for their lyric reification of the sea voyage, but without attention to the phonetic wavelets that serves to swamp the turmoil of below-deck labor — or at least float euphonically above it. close window Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
The swamp eel is predaceous, grows to about 1 m in length, and can survive dry periods by burrowing in mud.
Holland / Swamp Thing nearly completes this desire until the scientist, Jason Woodrue aka the villainous Floronic Man, hired by Swamp Thing's Comicbookbin.com
As the swampy beat introduced the song, there was a gradually building cheer as people clicked to the songs identity.
The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums.
There are also small areas of azonal limestone and freshwater swamp forests. Western Java rain forests
The river drains into swampy areas round Lake Bangweulu.
The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions.
At any moment you half expect a fearsome creature to stomp out of the swamp and ferns. Times, Sunday Times
A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Mainstream journalists used to leave such muckraking to the denizens of the swamp where tabloid reporters reside. Not any more.
Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist.
And in 2006 and 2008, direct donations to Democrats via netroot channels such as ActBlue (bookmark it!) swamped the opposition in many close races. Think Progress » Steele says he wrote his new book ‘before’ he ‘became chairman.’
At the tidal swamps, the shore is a low, narrow levee separating the waters of the creeks from the backwaters of the swamps.
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Archive 2009-06-01
Luckily we've been through so many swamps and rivers and I think they are far more scared of us than we are of them. The Sun
In the lowland areas podocarps and hardwoods were predominant with kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) growing in swampy areas and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) on drier sites. Southland temperate forests
Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail.
Sedges, bluejoint grass, boneset, and swamp milkweed dominate the community.
I overlooked the swamp and thornbush. Globe and Mail
They passed the great papyrus swamps the next day and rounded the point which marked the edge of the Canopus mouth of the Nile.
Most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
Where the fields go wild and grow into brakes, and the soil becomes fenny, on the north-western edge of Grande Pointe, a dark, slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly north-eastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps.
She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
The swamp's stench filled his nostrils as he rushed through the mud, splattering the grime and getting ever closer to the adversary.
The area of transition from freshwater glades to saltwater mangrove swamps is a highly productive zone that nurses great numbers of commercially valuable crustacea. Everglades National Park, United States
Many disappeared in the South China Sea - their overcrowded, top-heavy fishing boats swamped by the sea, or sunk by pirates who attacked at night.
Walcott is a prime contender to help the team emerge from the foetid swamp of their recent displays. Still glad you left Theo Walcott behind then Mr Capello?
She watches her father's departure by ship from a rowboat that is nearly swamped in the ship's wake.
They develop on lacustrine-palustrine surfaces characterized by the presence of lacustrine materials, derived from differential accumulation as well as biogenic deposits coming from the remains of the mangrove swamp itself or other similar ecosystems like the swamp grasslands. Cuban wetlands
Wild goats were seen picking their way down the shoulder of the Eagle's Rock; they play a vital role by browsing the hazel scrub which would swamp the natural vegetation.
Police say it is a miracle no one was killed when a flash flood swamped an English village.
The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
First day of Swampitude and the left-wing blogosphere -- which is overpopulated by illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives -- is already attacking me: 24 mostly mingy comments about my Left Behind post, many of which seem to be steaming off a post by Greg Sargent, who writes a blog called The Horse's ... Now that I have your attention - Swampland - TIME.com
In this great region of swamps every mile appears like every other mile until you get well used to it, and are able to distinguish the little local peculiarities at the entrance of the rivers and in the winding of the creeks, a thing difficult even for the most experienced navigator to do during those thick wool-like mists called smokes, which hang about the whole Bight from November till Travels in West Africa
At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
A ribbon snake is seen on salvinia in a cypress swamp adjacent to marsh that stretches to the Gulf of Mexico in Barataria Preserve.
They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
I went out to a swamp and sat in the middle of a canoe while George and Stephen rowed me.

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