"Quag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... needed care, and stopped him from looking backward. In the whirling of my wits, I fancied first that this was Lorna; until the scene I had been through fell across hot brain and heart, like the drop at the close of a tragedy. Rushing there through crag and quag at utmost speed of a maddened horse, I saw, as of another's fate, calmly (as on canvas laid), the brutal deed, the piteous anguish, and ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... croaked he, the oil dripping down on all sides. "Quag! Quag! I shall never speak to ...
— Stories of Birds • Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
... miles of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, into which doleful region, at our present speed, we should plunge much sooner than seemed at all desirable. In truth, I expected nothing better than to find myself in the ditch on one side or the Quag on the other; but on communicating my apprehensions to Mr. Smooth-it-away, he assured me that the difficulties of this passage, even in its worst condition, had been vastly exaggerated, and that, in its present state of improvement, I might consider myself as safe ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where ...
— Bees in Amber - A Little Book Of Thoughtful Verse • John Oxenham
... blink more fiercely, a faint wild light overspread for a minute the bleak landscape, and he saw approaching from the moor a figure at a kind of swinging trot, with now and then a zig-zag hop or two, such as men accustomed to cross such places make, to avoid the patches of slob or quag that meet them here and there. This figure resembled his father's, and like him, whistled through his finger by way of signal as he approached; but the whistle sounded not now shrilly and sharp, as in old times, but immensely far away, and seemed to sing strangely through Tom's ...
— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu |
