• fever-swamp

fever-swamp (suomeksi)

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• (alt form, fever swamp, lang=en)
• Disease-ridden swamp.
• * (quote-book, year=1974 , title=The valley where time stood still , author=Lin Carter , page=31 , passage=Think of it as the Martian equivalent of the Fountain of Youth, which that grizzled and gullible old soldier-of-fortune, Ponce de Leon, once searched for in the '''fever-swamps''' of Florida, and you will not be far off the mark. )
• * (quote-book, year=2006 , title=The Worshippers and the Way , author=Hugh Cook , page=260 , ISBN=1411691423 , passage=It was so hot in this '''fever-swamp''' that his water requirements would be prodigious. )
• * (quote-book, year=2007 , title=Hesperos - Volume 2 , author=Matilda Houstoun , page=42 , ISBN=1429002840 , passage=And now we were fairly on the bosom of the 'mighty' Mississippi, that largest, and ugliest, and most tremendous of rivers ; tremendous through the force of its resistless currents, and the '''fever-swamps''' that spread their noxious vapours over its surface. )
• Group of political extremists.
• * (quote-journal, date=February 21, 2017, work=Times Herald-Record, volume=, number=, title=Our Muslim neighbors are being targeted with violent threats, author=Heather Yakin, passage=The community has been the focus of the '''fever-swamp''' for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp.)
• Extreme political positions.
• * (quote-book, year=2014 , title=Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama , author=John Avlon , page=252 , ISBN=0991247612 , passage=Among those caught up in the '''fever-swamp''' was Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's two White House wins. )