6 Metaphors for swamp

A large Red-Maple swamp, when at the height of its change, is the most obviously brilliant of all tangible things, where I dwell, so abundant is this tree with us.

The swamp was one black ooze with water up to their waists, a tangle of grass, reeds, cypress trees, bushes.

He rode over to Swanslea with Cecil, and when he said it was six miles off, she called it four; what he termed bare, marshy, and dreary, was in her eyes open and free; his swamp was her lake; and she ran about discovering charms and capabilities where he saw nothing but damp and dry rot, and, above all, banishment.

White Oak Swamp is an extensive morass, similar to that skirting the banks of the Chickahominy, and the passage through it is over narrow, winding, and difficult roads, which furnish the worst possible pathways for wagons, artillery, or even troops.

Let the mangrove foliage be as gay and green as it mayand it is gay and greena mangrove swamp is a sad, ugly, evil place; and so I felt that one to be that day.

The swamp was one black ooze with water up to their waists, a tangle of grass, reeds, cypress trees, bushes.

6 Metaphors for  swamp