The plague came from the swamp.

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

Oh look! Mermaid come out of swamp. Oh boy!

He did not wish the sun to rise before he reached the marsh.

'There, you see I was not grudging you the marsh!' said Levin. 'It only meant losing time.'

Oblonsky spoke of the marshes which Malthus had leased in the Province of Tver, of how they were preserved, of the vehicles dog carts in which the sportsmen were driven thither, and of the marquee that was set up for lunch beside the marsh.

The snipe marshes in the Surovsky district had for a long time appeared tempting to Levin, but he had put off his visit because of his farm work.

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.

Others are more mundane, involving long term experiments and observation of smaller ecosystems, such as plots of prairie grass or swamplands.

At the edge of the marsh the peasant boys and men who had pastured their horses in the night lay, covered with their coats, having fallen asleep at daybreak.

'No! I must pull myself together,' he thought, picked up his gun and hat, called Laska to heel, and got out of the marsh.

It's too hot now but we shall get there toward evening (it's twenty versts), and will shoot there in the evening we'll spend the night there, and then to morrow we shall go to the big marshes.'

Stephen responded quickly, taking an army into the fens and using boats lashed together to form a causeway that allowed him to make a surprise attack on the isle.

He had only five birds in his bag when he came out of the marsh by the alder grove where he was to meet Oblonsky.

With so much at stake, it makes sense to place sentinels near every swamp, city, public market, and farmyard on earth.

The other horses, also alarmed, splashed through the water with their hobbled feet, making a sound of slapping as they drew their hoofs out of the thick clayey mud, and began floundering their way out of the marsh.

Image of river in Gyeongsang Province in South Korea, taken on August 10, 2012 by Flickr User 습지와새들의친구(Wetlands Birds Korea) (CC BY NC ND 2.0)

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Meanwhile from the opposite side of the marsh came not frequent but, as it seemed to Levin, significant reports from Oblonsky's gun, followed almost every time by a cry to the dog, 'Krak! Krak!

Since 2012, an invasive weed known as the water hyacinth has been subsuming tens of thousands of acreage of the surface of Lake Tana, as well as adjacent wetlands and ranches surrounding the lake.

Image of Upstream River in Daegu city, South Korea, taken on August 10, 2012 by Flickr User 습지와새들의친구 (Wetlands Birds Korea) (CC BY NC ND 2.0)

If our leaders cannot find a new approach, there is every chance that financial globalization will shift quickly into reverse, making it all the more difficult to escape the current morass.

Degei sits on the mud floor she has no furniture which is where she also performs her daily chores, such as washing clothes with murky water from the nearby swamp.

This program was inconsistent with the Battle for Wheat (small plots of land were inappropriately allocated for large scale wheat production), and the Pontine Marsh was lost during World War II.

Having traversed more than half the marsh, Levin and Veslovsky came to a spot where the peasants' meadow land was divided into long strips, the ends abutting on the sedge and separated by narrow lines where the grass had been trodden down or cut.

In the Niger delta, where oil production and official neglect have devastated the environment and wrecked livelihoods, enraged youths took to the swamps and led an insurgency against Federal troops.

'Go along! Go, you'll find the way to the mill!' cried Levin, and on looking round was pleased to see Veslovsky making his way out of the marsh toward the peasants, stooping and stumbling with his weary feet and holding his gun at arm's length.

Cleaner energy sources must be adopted, while forests and wetlands must be preserved and restored to absorb carbon dioxide, and to absorb floodwaters and filter contaminants before they reach water supplies.

After all, such a thing is only possible when somewhere, in some place, we, at some time or another, have, even if it s along the margins of a dirty swamp, a normal world that exists, to which a girl, who has been down a crooked path, can return, or, let s say, where it s possible to tell her devastated parents that the one who destroyed her has been punished.