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6 total sentences available.
[…] and as all along the sea-coast, at least in those parts where I have resided, there has always been a vast extent of marais, or marsh, which has been bien communal, the poorer classes experienced no obstacle to their living in this manner. And no porte d'arme is required.
Source: wiktionary
[…] and when rains filled the maraises, and the cold nor'westers blew from Texas and the sod was spongy with much water, and he went out for feathered game, the numberless mallards, black ducks, gray ducks, teal - […]
Source: wiktionary
First of all, on the East, in that part of the Town which still takes its name from the marais or marsh in which Camulogenes entangled Cæsar, there was a collection of palaces, the mass of which extended to the waterside.
Source: wiktionary
Fencing in a "marais" [marsh] on the prairie, they raised "providence rice," depending on providential rainfall to water the crops. The Acadians raised only a fraction of Louisiana's rice crop, but they pioneered an ideal environment for rice growing. The fertile prairie loams overlay a subsoil[…]
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include bog, bottom, bottomland, everglade, glade.
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