It poured all night and when we started off on foot at sunrise the next morning we found the track in the forest a regular quagmire in places we waded through mud up to our knees - Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker

The quagmire would be dried up and the road itself would seem to be a different road - Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Joel Chandler Harris

The accidental confronting of two individuals pleases the eye we unite them in our imagination carrying on the picture before us and suddenly we find ourselves in a quagmire of absurd incongruities - Mr. Isaacs by F. Marion Crawford