Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Abel Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant.
We walked to the edge of the swamp and looked over it. Apparently it was boundless, and vast flocks of every sort of waterfowl flew from its recesses, till it was sometimes difficult to see the sky.
They drain the swamp and turn it into fertile land.
Needing fuel for his efforts, the silverback soaks in a swamp for hours, methodically stripping and rinsing dirt from herb roots before munching.
The old fort flanked on a swamp.
And the lion keeps something for you, and the mangrove swamp and the coral and the spider and the wren.
They suspended their march in front of a swamp.
As the vertebrate monsters have waxed and waned, the insects have gone on mating and hatching and, as they do, populating every swamp, tree, and patch of soil.
The front yard was an icy swamp, and a couple of warped planks, extending from the sidewalk to the door, made a sort of rickety footbridge.
I have always hated myself in high school: I am unhappy every day, but I never want to change, let myself sink into the swamp of pain and feel sorry for myself.
From planters' homes and swamp cabins, a varied array of firearms came to each muster.
Paris herb is abloom - a typical forest herb that grows at islands in the swamp.
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