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    morass


    1. It was a fuel company making lantern fuel out of the morass on big crystal factory ships more like floating villages than ships


    2. between a rather overgrown clump of rhododendrons and a morass of


    3. And if the mind focuses on things that make you unhappy, attention is stuck in a morass that prevents you from enjoying your life


    4. But as he wondered whether he’d truly miscalculated and that actually death was imminent, his world became a watery morass of pain


    5. For the most part it was a morass of symbols


    6. She brushed Gerrid's hair with her fingers, carefully avoiding the morass of sensor pads around his temples


    7. No-man’s land was a morass


    8. Pat was the first to see the green and black police uniform through the morass of fishermen, sailors, and housewives


    9. The truth is that the nation was in quite a deep morass and near


    10. While waiting in Launceston for the conclusion of this administrative morass, I was not allowed to see any patients

    11. “Reoren, is there any chance you can intensify the light of your incantation? This morass is wide


    12. With a bellow of despair that opened a temporary gap in the seething morass of diseased bodies, I hurled myself and rucksack out an open window back to the slightly more tolerable insanity of the platform


    13. I tossed and turned; brain a seething morass


    14. A slow smile spread over the young man’s features as understanding trickled through the morass of social and religious conditioning


    15. Quivering with the abhorrence of being dragged back to the revolting destiny planned for her by Jelal Khan, she plunged into the morass, seeking a hiding-place from the pursuit she expected


    16. Then there came a period of blind impulse and movement, when the atom that was she mingled and merged with myriad other atoms of spawning life in the yeasty morass of existence, molded by formative forces until she emerged again a conscious individual, whirling down an endless spiral of lives


    17. The hair on Sam‘s neck stood as he clucked to JY and quickened their pace through the green morass


    18. Even he had to be careful but he had grown up with the leafy imported pest and he would lead his pursuers into the morass at sunset


    19. A few steps into the morass and it was dark—the moon wasn‘t up and the canopy denied light from the departing sun


    20. The latter seemed remote as he reasoned that few people would have sufficient reason to venture into this God forsaken morass so whomever he came across would not be of much—if any—help

    21. They carefully wended their way through the morass of containers to select the ones they needed and hauled them with the big lifts to the ship and attached them to the ship’s tie points


    22. Sunk up to his neck in a morass of dead brandies and rotting flowers, he flung the dirt of the garden all about after having finished with the courtyard and the backyard, and he excavated so deeply under the foundations of the east wing of the house that one night they woke up in terror at what seemed to be an earthquake, as much because of the trembling as the fearful underground creaking


    23. prerequisite for tenacity - and ascended from that morass with dedication and vision


    24. Leading his team through this morass of theoretical quantum mechanics for a glimpse of the future was stressful enough, but he had the added pressure being put upon him by those trying to persuade him to work for them instead of Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority


    25. ‘Hasn’t the society ostracized them physically and suppressed them morally for centuries, thereby sinking their collective consciousness into a morass


    26. This usually progresses into Dimension Deficit Disorder (D3), where the gamer becomes lost between their many avastars and the player behind the gamer, thus creating a morass of non-linearity – an Oz with no magician behind the curtain


    27. "This is neocreationism," she said, "trying to avoid the legal morass of trying


    28. Only two leaps from deliverance he realized that the gangly morass had become so ill defined that there was absolutely nothing to gain purchase upon, but his momentum was such that there was little to do but try


    29. The slug-like creatures’ purposeful movement was immediately transformed into spastic contortions, and a viscous green fluid began to seep and then pucker and burst all across the morass of writhing feeders


    30. I don't know whether it is these November mists that have done it, but certainly after all my hauling of her up the rocks of proud self-sufficiency she has flopped back again deeper than before into the morass in which I found her

    31. � Some days, often if irregularly, the "No" failed, and I fell back into the morass of depression


    32. Whatever happens in our lives no matter how far we feel we have wandered into some inescapable morass, or simply become so totally distracted and even debilitated we feel we have lost our connection to our becoming self, our search continues unabated


    33. captivity and morass of wickedness that is the purgatory and perdition of Planet Earth


    34. The stories told by the New Testament are an amazingly convoluted morass of lies,


    35. In some parts it widens into a morass


    36. With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse


    37. "There is another morass down yonder and a narrow neck between


    38. We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored


    39. They were at the morass, and again on the path, and again


    40. Why, the river rises and falls the best part of forty feet, and half the country is a morass that you can't pass over

    41. One funnel-shaped depression in the morass, of a livid green in color from some lichen which festered in it, will always remain as a nightmare memory in my mind


    42. Here was a weary experience in which he was as utterly condemned toloneliness as in the despair which sometimes threatened him while toiling in the morass of authorship without seeming nearer to the goal


    43. Closing your eyes and buying them into the morass tends to pan out though, at least relative to other times of the year


    44. I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content,” he added, with emphasis, “to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains—my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed—made useless


    45. On one side the sea protected it, and there were no foreign ships on the southern ocean anyway; to the landward side were walls and a broad morass which might be flooded in time of danger, making the city a veritable island


    46. "Is There a Way Out of the Andragogy Morass?" Lifelong Learning, 11, 1987, 17-20


    47. "There is another morass down yonder, and a narrow neck between


    48. They were at the morass, and again on the path, and again near where poor Heidegger met his death


    49. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea


    50. In that morass where you and I



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    Synonyms for "morass"

    mire morass quag quagmire slack marsh swamp slough wash fen

    "morass" definitions

    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot