Everglade

His room at the Chelsea looked as though the mad hand of a god had transposed it into an everglade sarcophagus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have no idea of how long we were in that vast everglade, but it must have been for weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Soundbite of song "Everglade") Mr. HEGARTY: (Singing) Of everglade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Joined by my daughter, who teaches middle school in Naples 'eastern suburbs, we spent the first few days leafleting the endless grid of streets that cover what had been, for thousands of years, slash pine forest and everglade waterways. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From there he found a stone bridge slicing across an everglade of reeds and foul water. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

But Mercy's tame wind let them press on, breasting the current, until they emerged at last into an open expanse of saltmarsh, a green and living everglade that seemed to stretch on forever into the misted west. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

Picking a path as they went on Jack and his companions pushed into the deep everglade, the lush undergrowth sometimes quite impeding their progress, and making their advance very slow. ❋ Cyril Burleigh (N/A)

In their hands Montezuma is transformed into a barbarous Indian chief, and the city of Mexico becomes a rude Indian village, situated among the islands and lagoons of an everglade which afforded unusual facilities ❋ Unknown (1846)

Under the treatment of its author, Montezuma becomes a rude Indian sachem, his kingdom a confederation of barbarous Indian tribes like that of the Iroquois, the city of Mexico a cluster of mud huts or wigwams in an everglade, its causeways rude Indian footpaths, its temples and palaces pure fictions of lying Spanish romance, and all previous histories of the Aztecs and their country extravagant inventions with a ❋ Unknown (1846)

We'd ended up in the Korengal valley, a place of everglade beauty, screeching monkeys, and gruff mountain tribes. ❋ Susannah Breslin (2011)

Would you be willing to lie to the other jurors, saying something like, “I have a master’s degree in botany and that wasn’t marijuana, it was a northern everglade fern — any botanist could see that.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

"I have only a short time to be out," objected Cora, "and perhaps some other time I will come to see your everglade. ❋ Margaret Penrose (N/A)

Under the influence of this belief, when a few days later they landed in search of fresh water, and a certain archer, on the lookout for game, caught distant glimpses of a flock of tall white cranes feeding in an everglade, he fled to his comrades with the story that he had seen a party of men clad in long white tunics, and all agreed that these must be the people of Mangon. [ ❋ John Fiske (1871)