"Quag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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 |
