quaking bog

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a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

The aerial shots were so sharp they could see every bog hole.
The Ballad of Johnny France|Richard Ben Cramer|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whoever can stay on offense and avoid the gaffe or the policy bog will have the upper hand in the debate.
Brett O’Donnell’s Guide to Tonight’s Veep Debate|Brett O’Donnell|October 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
You have countless candidates quaking in their boots when asked to criticize him.
The GOP’s Rush Limbaugh Problem Deepens After His ‘Slut’ Attack|Howard Kurtz|March 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Obama and the Democrats generally have a history of quaking when this deficit talk starts up.
Michael Tomasky on GOP Deficit Hypocrisy at Release of Obama’s Budget|Michael Tomasky|February 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST

For all those quaking on the right at the sight of an ascendant Warren, rest easy.
Warren Takes Credit for Occupy Wall Street|Samuel P. Jacobs|October 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Underneath these were affectionate hearts quaking with fear lest the home-coming be but a sad one after all.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
She sprang to the door, flung it open, and disappeared, leaving the husband and wife dumfounded and quaking with fright.
An Episode Under the Terror|Honore de Balzac
Over the bogs and through the marshes, the madness of despair within him, he heeded not the deep ditches and the bog-pools.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
Hope had gone, dreams were unreal and vanishing as the mist that crawled along the bog-pools at night.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
Our trenches are a perfect bog; I shall find some difficulty in getting round them to-night even if we are not driven out of them.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie