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Everglades

noun

A large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife.

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Everglades National Park

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"Everglades" Quotes from Famous Books

... bribes before our eyes. Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled. You doubtless mean well, according to your—if I may say so—somewhat murky lights, but we are not for sale, except at ten cents weekly. From the hills of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, from Sandy Hook to San Francisco, from Portland, Oregon, to Melonsquashville, Tennessee, one sentence is in every man's mouth. And what is that sentence? I give you three guesses. You give it up? It is this: 'Cosy Moments cannot ...

— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... annoy the collector. If the latter could have kept away from him, the dignity of the office might have been preserved, and the object of the incumbent's appointment to it attained; but sneak away whithersoever he might—into the heart of the dismal swamp, or anywhere in the Everglades—some vagrom Indian or casual negro was sure to stumble over him before long, and go and tell Halsey, securing a plug of tobacco for reward. Or if he was not found in this way, some company was tolerably ...

— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)

Words linked to "Everglades" : swampland, swamp, FL, Florida, Everglade State, Sunshine State, Everglades National Park