quagmire
quag informal

At his death, China was in a political and economic quagmire.

To her those people were a quagmire through which she must force herself.

What Israel needs now is a way out of the quagmire.

These rules are a quagmire for the average American let alone people from other countries.

The only way out of this quagmire is more democracy, not less.

Our occupation will become a quagmire for years to come.

The growth of the committed population has become a political quagmire.

In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire.

The trouble is that the budget quagmire will not go away.

The general's a great man, but he's gotten himself into a quagmire.

She simply wants an honest answer from the president about how and why we got into the quagmire in Iraq.

No one, for now, seems able to find a way to pull the district out of the quagmire.

"But in the first technology we're working on, the ownership issue has become a quagmire."

In the quagmire of our court system, such an approach is unfortunate.

She found it hard to believe they could have turned a paradise into a quagmire.

Q is also for quagmire, an old word that some think now has new life in Iraq.

At the moment, "this" is nothing less than a quagmire.

"It's going to be a quagmire for a long time."

Let's understand, though, that making the country safe in the quagmire of democracy is really hard.

But that could plunge the nation into a legal and political quagmire.

It's time to pull our troops out of this quagmire.

The company lost time hunting for solid ground around the quagmire.

I came out of the sensuous quagmire an hour later.

For educators across the country, social promotion has long been a quagmire.

They seemed to be all alone, abandoned on this quagmire of a planet.

They belonged to what seemed a giant body, sunk up to the shoulders in a quag.

The only significant animal indigenous to Io is the indescribable quag.

Over a spread-out swamp, a quag that ate the tracks.

This is a quag to get mired about.

Seven weeks after that he would succumb to a wasting quag disease and leave Judah alone.

The Quag End, with a 761-capacity terrace (of which 357 is covered)

His blood pooled and thickened in the quag.

In truth, I expected nothing better than to find myself in the ditch on one side, or the quag on the other.

The sequel, Return to Quag Keep (2006), was published after Norton had died in 2005.

The legend carved in the slab where the oozing quag gurgled from its grooves was hardly unfamiliar.

Zaibar and Quag were sword-happy hotheads.

With Zaibar and Quag, the prince went to Lirain's apartment.

He and Quag waited, board-stiff save for a rolling of dark eyes, while their charge entered the chamber of his treacherous concubine.

Norton subsequently wrote Quag Keep, which involved a group of gamers who travel from the real world to Greyhawk.

And found Val Con at last: diminished, lackluster and fragmented, surrounded by a sticky gray quag.

The latter word, popularized during the war in Vietnam, is an amalgam of quag, "a bog or marsh," and mire, "deep, soft mud."

Here, Quag - oh.'

I thrust my sword into it before I called in Quag and Zaibar.'

Turbulence writhed across the surface, wringing screams from the Coursers; upheavals squirmed as if the quag were about to erupt.

No library viewer, no relief from the wheel of his thoughts mired in the quag of his self-recriminations.

Their source, their genesis, is conjectural: there are perhaps parent creatures, mother-things, buried there in the quag, never seeing the light of day.

Return to Quag Keep (2005, with Jean Rabe)

Return to Quag Keep was completed by Rabe and published by Tor Books in January 2006.

The first novel based on the Dungeons & Dragons game was Quag Keep (1978) by Andre Norton.

In the mean time the club is redeveloping the Quag End of their existing Cressing Road ground to bring it up to Conference National standards.