Sentence examples for marshy ground from inspiring English sources

Every curved tumulus also acquires an unnerving pliability and the marshy ground becomes a potential deathtrap.

The first step was to drive 758 pilings about 60 feet into the marshy ground.

That the city rests on millions of wooden stilts pounded into marshy ground is well known.

Even in this weather, its marshy ground, hidden lakes and valleys are teeming with wild and not so wild life.

That is an interesting point for theological dispute, but marshy ground for secular courts to tread on.

The marshy ground is used for therapeutic baths, hence the number of health spas in this area.

The weight of the floodwaters pressing down on the marshy, waterlogged ground that Herakleion was built on would have caused the land to fail, Dr. Stanley said.

His first major commission, in 1751, was at Croome Court in Worcestershire, where he remodelled the house, demolished and resited the church, and drained the marshy grounds, channelling the water to create a lake that masqueraded as the source of the River Severn.

The earmarked site, at the geographic centre of New York, had for years been a marshy dumping ground, home to mountains of ash, so vividly described by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby as "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens".

BIG PLANS FOR AN INSTANT CITY Georgia's government is breaking ground for Lazika, its grandiose city of the future, on a stretch of marshy land near the Black Sea, a project based on the Chinese concept of the instant city.

The marshy land was obviously conquered, and today Chicago's skyline is iconic.