Quotes about Marshes

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.