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Definition of Morasses
1. morass [n] - See also: morass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morasses
Literary usage of Morasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER XIV ATTACK OF morasses, INUNDATIONS, WOODS morasses, that is, impassable
swamps, which are only traversed by a few embankments, present peculiar ..."
2. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"CHAPTER X. TOILSOME MARCH OF OJEDA AND HIS COMPANIONS THROUGH THE morasses OF CUBA.
NOTWITHSTANDING the recent services of Ojeda, the crew of Talavera still ..."
3. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"The levelling of forests, the draining of morasses, and the extirpation of
mischievous animals which inhabit them, are the first objects of man's labour in ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1892)
"TOILSOME MARCH OF OJEDA AND HIS COMPANIONS THROUGH THE morasses OF CUBA.
NOTWITHSTANDING the recent services of Ojeda, the crew of Talavera still regarded ..."
5. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1837)
"The forests aud morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians,
who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, ..."
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