Sentence examples for marshy grounds from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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.

"Like the cathedral in the book, it 'floated' on the marshy ground on which it was built.

By early afternoon, the stretch of craggy, marshy ground between Haytor and Saddle Tor resembled a giant quad bike graveyard.

Mr Garton Ash brings the reader sure-footedly through the thickets of Germany's post-war history and through the marshy ground of moral relativism.