| 1. | And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | bog and quagmire that hath laid knives under his pillow an. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | He had preferred to traverse that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely I don't understand how he could have come out of that alive.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the Champs-Elysees, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its excessive fluidity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |