Although many of the Thunder shots landed in or near the fort, they had little effect; according to Moultrie, "We had a morass in the middle, that swallowed them up instantly, and those that fell in the sand in and about the fort, were immediately buried".
Countries like China and Iran have faced a morass of corruption and institutional disarray while seeking to expand their presence here.
Beside a fenced plantation of dripping conifers with mossy trunks, sheltering bullocks have left a morass of deep mud.
Sorting out the who knew what when has become a morass, as infighting between the corporations has turned nasty at times.
Mr. Bush said that the large number of agencies that deal with domestic defense had created a morass.
In New York, the straightforward task of transporting children to and from school has become a morass of good and bad intentions, shortsighted marketplace policies and outright corruption.
As Klein saw it, that system had become a morass of patronage, corruption and incompetence.
Achebe says the Igbo have never fully recovered, and Nigeria has slid into a morass of corruption.
As far as he was concerned, Eriksson said, it had all seemed a morass of cleverness, but then, he conceded, he may well have entered the military courtroom in the Central Highlands, where the four trials were held, with unwarranted expectations, for it had been his hope that the trials would help him unravel his reactions to Mao's fate.
Not until January 2009 was Strauss elevated to the captaincy and then only after Vaughan had resigned in a veil of tears and Kevin Pietersen had quit in a morass of ego.
