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Sentences ending with swamp

Smiley during these times was at slopping in a swamp. [5]
I could not reach them in the swamp on horseback, and was in the act of dismounting when the man fell, and then they set out to carry him to the rear, still farther to my right, beyond the swamp. [9]
I searched and prayed pitifully for water,--for only a sip of the brown water with the specks in it that was in the swamp. [9]
I never went near the house, but struck through the woods and made for the swamp. [5]
I shall always marvel at the courage there was in her, for she straightened and drew away from me a little proudly, albeit gently, and sat down on the knee of the oak, looking across the bayou towards the mist of the swamp. [9]
I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. [5]
And now," he added, wheeling on the Colonel when each had a glass in his hand, "who was in command of that company on the right, in the swamp? [9]

More example sentences with the word swamp in them

Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
If ever there was an oyster that fancied itself a whale; or a jack-o'lantern, confined to a swamp, that fancied itself a planet with a billion-mile orbit; or a summer zephyr that deemed itself a hurricane, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
When the blue vapor stole through the cypress swamp, my trained ear caught the faintest of warning sounds. [9]
The bay narrowed to a mile in width where we came upon it, and ran several miles inland to a swamp, round the head of which we must go. [4]
Probably he was tired of water, and swamp and water, and scraggy trees and water. [4]
It was on this day that Roadmaster found himself at bay in the mangrove swamp not far from the port of Rahway, where he had expected to find a schooner to take him to the New Hebrides. [11]
We can't take the Gospel literally, or we should all be ruined in a day, and swamp everybody else. [9]
The Parrotts and the Dahlgrens roared, and the high bluffs flung out the sound over the empty swamp land. [9]
And at the signal shot..." "The hollow is impassable--there's a swamp there," said the esaul. [2]
Ready to make roads, throw up works, tear up railroads, or hew out and build wooden bridges; or, best of all, to go for the Johnnies under hot sun or heavy rain, through swamp and mire and quicksand. [9]
When we was out of sight of the house he looked back and around a second, and then comes a-running, and says: "Mars Jawge, if you'll come down into de swamp I'll show you a whole stack o' water-moccasins. [5]
I judge your only hope of salvation is in discharging them all at once, since it is their commissions that threaten to swamp us. [5]
We had something like a hour and a half of stumbling through the swamp when suddenly we stood in the little trail! [4]
He paid no heed to the shells which tore the limbs from the trees about him, or sent the swamp water in thick spray over his staff. [9]
But the Colonel, for all his title, had a forest of poor relations and a brushwood swamp of shabby friends, for he had scrambled up to fortune, and now the time was come when he must define his new social position. [6]
The Upper Lake discharges itself into the Lower by a brook which winds through a mile and a half of swamp and woods. [4]
Whether the young blood has yet made his way out of Bascom's swamp, we have not learned. [5]
There was flood behind him in the valley, a foodless swamp on the left of him, open shore and jungle on the right, the swollen sea before him; and the only avenue of escape closed by Blood Finchley's friends. [11]
It would have been strange indeed if this capital of Louisiana, brought hither to a swamp from the sands of Biloxi many years ago by the energetic Bienville, were not visited from time to time by the scourge! [9]
Mower charged through as bad a piece of wood and swamp as I ever saw, and got within one hundred yards of Johnston himself, who was at the bridge across Mill Creek. [9]
We have now arrived at a part of the swamp where the difficulties and perplexities are going to be greater than any we have yet met with-- where, indeed, the finger-boards are multitudinous, and the most of them pointing diligently in the wrong direction. [5]
Imaged on its amber surface were the twisted boughs of the cypresses of the swamp beyond,--boughs funereally draped, as though to proclaim a warning of unknown perils in the dark places. [9]
One must be allowed to assist himself with conjectures like these when trying to find his way through a literary swamp which has so many misleading finger-boards up as this book is furnished with. [5]
Five miles through a tamarack swamp brought us to the inlet of Unknown Pond, upon which we embarked our fleet, and paddled down its vagrant waters. [4]
It led through a dense, semi-tropical forest in the direction of the swamp beyond, the way being well beaten, but here and there jealously crowded by an undergrowth of brambles and the prickly Spanish bayonet. [9]

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