Muskegs

Once more Andrew passed over it to blaze the trees and to tie streamers in muskegs where the first fall of snow would surely obliterate parts of the trail. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down river banks, and up power line trails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, spring meltwater may flow over land and enter rivers, or accumulate in the many muskegs, ponds, and lakes characteristic of low-lying tundra areas [14]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I would hang on to my pop's snowsuit, as we rode through Alaskan muskegs, down ri ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, poorly-drained sites contain muskegs and low lying areas along river channels contain alder (Alnus spp.), cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), and Alaska paper birch (Betula papyrifera). ❋ Unknown (2008)

There we tasted all of summer's searing heat and winter's penetrating hostility, our only neighbors the moose, bears, timber wolves and other wild life of the muskegs and forest; some of whom seemed ever ready to dispute our right to be there at all. ❋ Judith "Jlo" Quinton (2007)

And apples and muskegs, and we gathered them and payment was probably about fifty cents, might have been a dime because he used to walk up to the — he smoked a pipe of course — and he'd walk up to the little country store, T. Page 7 Paul's store and bring us back a peppermint candy and sometimes he might let us walk with him. ❋ Unknown (2000)

This geologically ancient but recently glaciated, area, dotted with countless lakes and muskegs large and small, and threaded with irregular watercourses with abundant potential and developed water-powers, occupies well over half of the entire country, or about ninety percent of the entire area north of the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes, and east of Lakes Winnipeg, Great Slave and Great Bear. ❋ Unknown (1929)

Crees, who can claim as their own the great Saskatchewan plains, the muskegs of the north-east, and the southern fringe of the great northern forest. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Our clergyman tells me that his uncle was literally absorbed by one of these muskegs. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

He and a party of "breeds" cut the road out of what has hitherto been a howling wilderness of burnt timber, scrub, and muskegs. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

The spruce grows in "bunches" or "stands" along the rivers, on firmer grounds which occur, like oases, in the muskegs. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

And farther out there were muskegs, and beyond the three-wire fence, which would stand no bar to a wandering child, there were range-cattle, half-wild cattle that resented the approach of anything but a man on horseback. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

Nothing could be more appalling than these muskegs. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

Now brown water, as everybody knows, comes from swamps or muskegs, while green water is the product of melting snow and ice. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)

I [got] the [skidoo] [stuck in] the muskeg. ❋ Weens (2005)

dude- aww man! look at muskeg titties over there! friend- [peel off] the [scabs] and youre [good to go]! ❋ Filthy Ronald (2010)

Ex. [Thar she blows] the great white [muskeg] whale. I got the [skeg] Dick so I best stay away from the swamp or else the muskeg whale'say get me ❋ Theedragoon (2013)

Ex. Mom I think I got the [muskeg dick]. The other day I was walking in [the swamp] and seemed to have [contracted] the muskeg dick. ❋ TheeDragoon (2013)