'A famous marsh!

Can I get to the marsh this way?'

All his geese are swans.

Every bird likes its own nest.

Every bird likes its own nest.

Every bird likes its own nest.

'Go straight on, and you'll step right into the marsh.

How can we drain the public policy swamp?

Or the swamp at Gramercy Park, right here.

The marsh had dried up and there were hardly any snipe.

The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog.

It's back there somewhere, through the bog.

He handed the reins to Veslovsky and went into the marsh.

The soft patch may be closer to a quagmire.

But the attempt failed, and a hopeless war sank ever deeper into the swamp.

That absence of self criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.

Veslovsky, wishing to watch the shooting, had driven into the marsh, where the horses had stuck fast.

The indoor swamp is deeper in some parts than others.

The word stagnation suggests a swamp, implying a breeding ground for virulent dangers.

Well there are steps we can take to navigate our way through the morass.

Moscow, despite its cafés chantants and its omnibuses, was still a stagnant pool.

'This is bad!' thought Vronsky, raising the hood of the calèche. 'It was muddy before, but now it will be a swamp.'

They had hardly entered the marsh when both dogs began searching together and started off toward a rusty looking spot in the marsh.

It is to put on some galoshes and walk through and find our way around.

And as I was modeling this mangrove swamp, I was thinking to myself, How do you put a box around this?

Exciting new buildings, designed by the world s most famous architects, will make Beijing and Shanghai look like models of twenty first century modernity. More Chinese will be featured in annual lists of the world s richest people.

Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent, but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating.

While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.

A hawk had woke up and was sitting on a haycock, turning its head from side to side and looking discontentedly at the marsh.

But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.

On this side of Gvozdevo there is a good marsh for snipe, and beyond it are splendid snipe marshes, and there are some double snipe there too.

But again Veslovsky persuaded him, and again, the marsh being a narrow one, Levin as a hospitable host remained with the vehicles.

Without trash pickup the city would have descended into a middle ages like morass of filth and disease.

Here is Times Square, the two streams that came together to make a wetland in Times Square, as it was at the end of the American Revolution.

They all came from behind the wattle fence of an apiary, and flying across the hemp field disappeared in the direction of the marsh.

He remembered the impoverished backwater that Singapore was in the 1920 s, and now he saw the gleaming city that free enterprise together with Lee Kwan Yew s quasi authoritarian leadership had wrought.

It's a splendid marsh, and I see there are hawks too,' said Oblonsky, pointing at two large birds circling above the sedges. 'Where there are hawks, there is sure to be game.'

2. showing some understanding for the view of some in the Bush administration that the US should not be bogged down by a continent that is soft, decadent and moralizing. This is not a pleasant way of putting it, but many Americans remember how on two occasions in the former Yugoslavia a pre eminently European theatre Europe was helpless until American warplanes showed up

2. showing some understanding for the view of some in the Bush administration that the US should not be bogged down by a continent that is soft, decadent and moralizing.

This place called the Middle East, which is such a swamp, in which everyone finds the right to massacre people they believe they do not belong together with.

The path led him straight to the marsh, which was recognizable by the mist rising from it, thicker at one spot and thinner at another, so that the sedge and willow bushes looked like islets swaying in the mist.

America s reluctance to be drawn into the Libyan quagmire, and the West s failure to intervene in order to stop the Syrian army from massacring civilians, now looks like a sad, and fairly accurate, guide to the future.

The Sabah newspaper, on the other hand, points out that one of the perpetrators was a confidential informant for the intelligence services and expresses concern that the German authorities may be caught up in the right wing extremist quagmire.

He remembered the impoverished backwater that Singapore was in the 1920 s, and now he saw the gleaming city that free enterprise together with Lee Kwan Yew s quasi authoritarian leadership had wrought. It was after visiting Singapore that Deng introduced special economic zones in southern China.

Stronger ties among Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar and the spectacular successes of the latter s Sunni proxies in Syria will put pressure on Iran to cut Assad loose or risk being drawn even deeper into the Syrian quagmire.