Our theory on this subject may have been true or false, but this much is a fact, that in all this region of lakes and rivers, I have seen no alder or other marsh of any considerable extent, save this.

There is also that great marsh in the west by the lean and desolate sea, more mysterious by far, whence a man may see far off the great and solemn mountains of another land.

It is undoubtedly best seen from the river, but it and the garden below it afford a great view over the marshes on a clear day, eastward to the cliffs of Folkestone and westward to Fairlight.

This morning we crossed the marsh with some difficulty, as all the pack-horses but three fell and stuck in the mud, until we transferred their loads to our own backs and carried them through half a mile of the softest part.

The first week of 1916 was marked by a progressive development of a forward Russian movement extending along the Stye and Strypa rivers from the Pripet marshes to Bessarabia.

As soon as you get this phone to Charlie Marsh at Coloma.

She belongs to Jason Hill," I told him; and, a little puzzled, I looked again at the low dunes and the marshes by the harbor mouth.

But no man could live in the Marsh for a day without that gesture of human life that is there to be seen upon every side.

'But none can come over the marshes from the south,' said the farmer's wife.

In this so-called lake no water is visible, except a small marsh like the one near Toser, where we went duck-shooting.

We pitched our small tent at the extreme edge of the marsh behind a large mass of rocks.

All about us rose the croaking of the frogs, dominating all the other noises of the night, and uniting in one mighty chorus in the marshes along the river.

He succeeded Narcissus Marsh as Archbishop of Dublin in 1702-3 (March 11th).

"But one July, two years after her death, a patch of gold appeared on the marsh below the hedgea patch of the monkey-flower.

One comes up out of the Marsh into Winchelsea to-day through the Strand Gate of the time of Edward I., and presently finds oneself in the beautiful and spacious square in which stands the lovely fragment of the church of St Thomas of Canterbury.

I came upon Nick Marsh near the general's headquarters, and he told me the direction the others had gone, but urged me to remain with himas Jack would surely be back there, horsemen having ridden out in that direction to relieve him.

Could I but keep the road, I should come in time to the swampy bank of the York; and then would follow the chestnut forest: and the wide marshes towards the Rappahannock; and everywhere I should meet friendly human faces, and then at night I should eat a hunter's meal below the stars.

Perhaps because she was young, perhaps because she was fair or because she had shapely ankles as she came one day through the marshes among the milkmaid flowers shoeless in spring.

From the marsh beyond the creek came the familiar croaking of the frogs; from the foothills in the cow-pasture came the shrilling of the crickets.

The two armies passed fifty days face to face almost, with the river and its marshes between them, and vainly attempting over and over again to join battle.

Upon a marsh beside the sea, With hawk and hound and vassals three, Rode WILLIAM, Duke of NORMANDY, The heir of Rover ROLLO; And ever as his falcon flew Quoth he: "Mark well, by St. MACLOU, For where she hovers hasten you, And where she falls I follow.

Where the Watling Street forded the Darent there grew up the town of Dartford, on the verge of the marshes within reach of the tide, but also within reach of an inexhaustible river of fresh water.

After three years of that dog's life up there I can't settle down in a hut on the Thames marshes without having a few days' fun first.

A gory track leading to the tête de pont, groups of dead in the fields on the west of Churubusco, over whose pale faces some stalks of tattered corn still waved; red blotches in the marsh next the causeway, where the rich blood of Carolina and New York soaked the earth, showed where the fire of the heavy Mexican guns and the countless escopetas of the infantry had been most murderous.

A thin crust of it lies along the marsh over the vegetating area, which has neither beauty nor freshness.