marshiness

The marshiness of the ground was, however, still a major problem, and could not be easily remedied.

Through the trees the swamp could be seen, a spreading marshiness that was not open land, but choked by trees and other heavy growth.

Most of Sparcot's drains and gutters were blocked; but the reluctance of the water to run away was due mainly to the marshiness of the land.

But the thickness of the jungle and the marshiness of the ground slowed the horses to the men's pace, and they tended to get in each other's way.

After the tour, visitors may wander along the trails, where the dense rustling reeds, marshiness and vociferous birds can make you feel like you've entered the heart of the Everglades.

Some of the land had been irrigated into marshiness, and men waded knee-deep in the mud planting and setting up stakes to indicate private plots in the community garden.

But suffering due to the marshiness of the site, during the reign of Isabella I, the Monastery of the Hieronymites was moved to a site next to an incipient royal palace.

As late as at the end of the Middle Ages, the original forest parts, especially the northern ones, lying in the fork of the Vistula, Wisłoka, and San were hardly accessible for settlement due to the land's marshiness.

The flank-guards could only go forward very slowly because of the denseness and marshiness of the forest and frequently lost touch with their little units; the advance-guards lost heavily at the barricades and the rear-guards were constantly being assegaied from behind.

Land near Walton Ferry was said in 1633 to have been washed away, reflecting the lack of additional river channels, lack of weirs and former marshiness of the tight bends of the river known as Cowey Sale and a similar plot of land, Thames Meadow on the north bank.