Both Uses of
morass
in
The Devil and Tom Walker
- A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp or morass.†
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- The black man told him of great sums of money buried by Kidd the pirate under the oak-trees on the high ridge, not far from the morass.†
Definition:
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(morass) a difficult situation that frustrates progress
or:
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot