“marshes”
“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
“Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.”
“I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows,sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.”
“There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.”
“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”