quaking bog

American  

noun

1. a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.

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Example Sentences

The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog.

From Time Magazine Archive

An extended mass which seems to lack solidity or cohesion is said to quake; as, a quaking bog.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Lying flat, she began slowly and cautiously to wriggle out across the surface of the quaking bog.

From Three Margarets by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

As it was, we plunged and strove for more than an hour in that place, the dark sky above us, the quaking bog below, the women's weeping in our ears.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

His march was not upon solid ground, but over a quaking bog, every undulation and waver of which was answered by a qualm at his heart.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan