| At present it is little more than a swampland, with pools of standing water, rubble, mounds of earth and stone and other building waste. |
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| However to the West of the estate lies an expanse of waste ground and swampland which very nearly cost the life of a young boy from the estate. |
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| It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland. |
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| Elvis lives with his unemployed, alcoholic father in a swampland slum where even a trip to the local watering hole is tinged with danger. |
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| At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer. |
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| You may not be aware that Ueno has quite a history dating back to the early years of the Edo Period when it was just a little swampland. |
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| The Dinka inhabit a vast region in the south of the Sudan that forms a seasonal swampland when the Nile River floods. |
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| He was hunting in the flooded, thickly wooded swampland of Bayou Meto in Arkansas with a couple of his buddies, and having a good day. |
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| For anybody who believes that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell them. |
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| Lintang, a mathematical genius, wears shoes made of car tyres and cycles 40km across crocodile-infested swampland to get to school each day. |
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| Studies will be made of swampland drainage, tree-cutting effects, irrigation, and erosion. |
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| Many of them could only be reached on foot by up to five-hour hikes, sometimes through swampland. |
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| The ridge is bounded on the north by the swamps and marshes of Mer Bleue and on the south by the Borthwick Creek swampland. |
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| For the 500 members of the Eel River Bar First Nation living on 220 acres of swampland, Dedam explained, the gardens were a natural fit. |
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| The lakes are defrosting, the land is gradually turning into swampland and once again the rivers are beginning to flow. |
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| The principle of permaculture is designed for application just about anywhere, from urban kitchen gardens to swampland or tropical rainforests. |
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| Anyone who tells you that today, in a globalized world, this question is purely an internal Canadian concern is selling you verbal swampland. |
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| This archipelago has little swampland, but there are wet meadows and inland marshes. |
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| The damp chill winds that whip off the Hudson river and over the New Jersey swampland remove several teeth each time you open your mouth. |
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| In the mid-1970s, he claimed to have received a calling from God to transform two acres of swampland on his property into a sculpture park, which he named Paradise Garden. |
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| The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland. |
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| Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia. |
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| Thousands of civilians have fled into remote swampland where humanitarian workers say they are surviving on water-lily roots. |
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| The road from the guard gate to the recruit depot, the publicly accessible part of the base, is built up from the swampland that borders on both sides. |
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| During the middle ages encroaching swampland and the consequent unhealthy environmental conditions caused the inhabitants of Sapri to abandon the settlement. |
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| So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. |
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| The attack happened only five months ago, but already the weeds and brush of the surrounding swampland are covering the last traces of a happy family life. Abyei was once a thriving market town. |
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| South of the river was swampland, rotting tenements and prisons. |
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| One major way of reclaiming swampland is by farming. |
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| One layer might portray ground cover-is it swampland? |
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| This was a long-term programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling in the intermediate spaces. |
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| The local topography is the result of ancient glacial activity and consists of relatively flat land dotted by numerous small lakes, many low-lying hills and acres of swampland and muskeg. |
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| Streets and roads must avoid woodlots, peat bogs, swampland, and unstable land as well as any improperly drained or flood-prone land, rock falls and cave-ins. |
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| As I'm sure many of you are aware, real estate scams are among the most common, with references to swampland in Florida being almost shorthand for the notion of fraudulent offers. |
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| This script is a fictionalized account of how the creation of a commercial farm established on swampland in the Great Lakes area of Africa has affected the local farming community. |
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| Palo is an exquisite liqueur which originated in the 16th and 17th Centuries, when there was a lot of swampland in Majorca and the mosquitoes spread the terrible disease of malaria. |
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| Let's say that a school is located in a district where a senior citizens' home is about to be built on swampland that is often used as an open-air natural science laboratory for the students. |
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| In order to quickly raise the water level of the springs of the core region as well as the one of the neighbouring swampland walls of gravel have been thrown up in the spring leads. |
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| Further east, towards the Wash, the vale widens out to form the Fenland, once a desolate area of malarial swampland drained as a result of many centuries of reclamation and now the most fertile soils in England. |
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| He set up camp in the swampland and built a log cabin, setting up a trotline for food. |
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