"Marshland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on which many herds were grazing and dotted with grave mounds as we neared Koupantze, where a branch of the railway traverses the Liao plain to the port of Newchwang. It was in this region that there came the first suggestion of resemblance to our marshland meadows; and very soon there were seen approaching from the distance loads so green that except for the large size one would have judged them to be fresh grass. They were loads of cured hay in the brightest green, the result, no doubt, of curing ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King
... this park is a kind of common interspersed with marshland through which a small stream flows, and there I have bagged as many as ten couple of snipe in an afternoon, with an occasional ...
— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready
... blows from the marshland near, And white things move, and the night grows drear, And they chatter and crouch and are sick ...
— Young Adventure - A Book of Poems • Stephen Vincent Benet
... covered with their long blue cloaks. You think of the belated sportsman hastening across the heath, pursued by the wind like a criminal by justice, and whistling to his dog, poor beast, who is splashing through the marshland. Unfortunate ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz |
