Plashy

The chariot had not many minutes got into the great road again, over the like rough and sometimes plashy ground, when it stopt on a dispute between the coachman, and the coachman of another chariot-and-six, as it proved. ❋ Unknown (2006)

* If not, there can be no other way to escape (if one would) unless by the plashy lane, so full of springs, by which your servant reaches the solitary wood house; to which lane one must descend from a high bank, that bounds the poultry yard. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They had, on one hand or the other as they turned, the long, straight, deep dike which had been cut at right angles to the Middle Wash; and around, the fields were flat, plashy, and heavy-looking with the mud of February. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Away went these upon their errand to the sea, and then came back the grating roar and plashy jerks of launching, the plunging, and the gurgling, and the quiet murmur of cleft waves. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

They found it a plashy, swampy place, prolific in mangroves and true ferns, with here and there a cultivated patch. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To reach the station Kobi, we still had to descend about five versts, across ice-covered rocks and plashy snow. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himself through the clinging underbush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track, with an unweariable activity that astonished him. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The hotel lodged in the "complex" is plashy with fake waterfalls — three fountains in a coin. ❋ Wills, Garry (1976)

And so the two in high glee started behind old Dobbin, and jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads, which had not been mended after their winter's wear, towards the dwelling of the wizard. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

Most unwisely we had neglected to take a meal before starting, not expecting the district to be so plashy and unwholesome as it proved to be. ❋ James Finn (N/A)

The sunbeams they play on the brook's plashy ripples, ❋ J. L. Cherry (N/A)

Then to pick one's way across the plashy meadows, and, after a ticklish pass of jumping from one reedy tussock to another, to get once more upon the firm soil, while the grass, dry and crisp under your feet, gives a pleasant _whish, whish_, as it does the duty of street-door-mat to your mud-beclogged sandals. ❋ Various (N/A)

His servant for the sake of His name should go unpunished; but quickly did he bring on them his deserved wrath, inasmuch as for the wickedness of them who dwelt therein the Lord converted their fruitful land into a salt marsh; and the sea, with the foreflowing of an unwonted tide, covered it, and, that it might even for ever be unhabitable, changed the dry land into a plashy lake. ❋ Various (N/A)

Plaquemine (plak'men), Bayou of (bi'oo) an inlet from the Mississippi river in Louisiana. planetree, an Oriental tree, rising with a straight, smooth branching Stem to a great height; the sycamore or buttonwood. plashy (plash'i), watery; splashy ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)

The soil was plashy and boggy; we descended and came to the foot of the Great Brocken without a river -- the highest mountain in all the north of Germany, and the seat of innumerable superstitions. ❋ James Gillman (N/A)

Just at this moment a plashy tramp on the bank of the stream, by the side of the bridge, caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. ❋ Unknown (1917)

After some hour or two's seafaring, the prow of the Argo embedded itself in the mud of a landing-place, plashy with the tread of cows and giving on to a lane that led towards the smoke of human habitations. ❋ Unknown (1915)