19 Words to use with swamp

I got him because I'mI'm a swamp-rat!"

And the new Comptesseshe tarried but a twelvemonth, left Monsieur a lovely son, and departed, led out of this vain world by the swamp-fever.

The bunk was packed with swamp-grass on which his coarse Hudson's Bay blankets were laid, and the shack was bare.

We also saw the swamp-deer, about the size of our blacktail.

He told me it was a cinch-hook hitch employed by mule packers in the mountains, and that he had used it on swamp-hooks in the lumber woods of Michigan.

At the edges of the great timbered swamps thickets of young winter-bare cypresses were budding yet more vividly than the willows, while in the depths of those overflowed forests, near and far down their lofty gray colonnades, the dwarfed swamp-maple drooped the winged fruit of its limp bush in pink and flame-yellow and rose-red masses until it touched its own image in the still flood.

The servants and children had gathered ground-pine to festoon the walls; stair-rail, bronze cannon, pictures, trophies, and windows were all bright with the aromatic green foliage; enormous bunches of peonies perfumed the house, and everywhere masses of yellow and white elder-bloom and swamp-marigold brightened the corners.

It is fully 70 feet wide, having a pebbly bottom; on each side grow large swamp-oaks.

At present it is dry, with a few pools of fresh water, connected below with a mangrove swamp opening upon the beach by a narrow creek.

But with June comes the most exquisite of our New England wild-flowers, the arethusa, or swamp-pink, as it is often styled, to the great confusion of its delicate, high-born nature with the great, vulgar, flaunting azalea.

You're not a swamp-rat, you're a swamp-scout," I said.

The cluck and coo of the cuckoo, the bubbling song of bobolink in buff and black, the watery trill of the stream-loving swamp-sparrow, the whispered whistle of the stealthy, darkness-haunting whippoorwill, the gurgle and gargle of the cow-bunting,he knew each and all, better than did Audubon, Nuttall, or Wilson.

At the edges of the great timbered swamps thickets of young winter-bare cypresses were budding yet more vividly than the willows, while in the depths of those overflowed forests, near and far down their lofty gray colonnades, the dwarfed swamp-maple drooped the winged fruit of its limp bush in pink and flame-yellow and rose-red masses until it touched its own image in the still flood.

Den she 'mence' ter figger back, en sho' 'nuff, dey wuz two er th'ee times in de las' week w'en she 'd be'n he'pin' de ladies wid dey dressin' en udder fixin's in de ebenin', en Jeff mought 'a' gone down ter de swamp widout her knowin' 'bout it at all.

So, with alternate feasting and fasting we passed the long weeks of that Arctic winter until the frogs in the neighboring swamp crying: "Knee deep, knee deep," and "better go round, better go round," proclaimed the season of freshets when the vast plain below us was traversible only in boats.

THE GOLD ONZA IV THE PRESIDENT'S BALL V OLSEN'S OFFER VI THE PRESIDENT'S WATCHERS VII ADAM RESUMES CONTROL VIII THE MANGROVE SWAMP IX ADAM'S LAST REQUEST X THE ROAD TO THE MISSION XI KIT KEEPS HIS PROMISE XII

But in these islands there are two noble species, at least, which are true swamp-ferns; the Lastraea Thelypteris, which of old filled the fens, but is now all but extinct; and the Osmunda, or King-fern, which, as all know, will grow wherever it is damp enough about the roots.

She had come round by way of Victorine's small, tight-fenced garden of crape-myrtles, oleanders and pomegranateswhere also the water was in the streets, backwater from the overflowed swamp-forests between city and lakeand had sent her to Charlie's bedside.

With these tradition ranks the green parakeet and blue pukeko or swamp-hen, two birds whose rich plumage has indeed something in it of tropical gaudiness, at any rate in contrast with the sober hues of most New Zealand feathers.

19 Words to use with  swamp