swampiness

As with malaria, a swampiness reclaims the veins without warning.

Dr. Braithwait could smell the swampiness of the nearby lands.

Only spring, yes, but the sun was hot and the air, perhaps because of the swampiness of the river, was suffocatingly humid.

The swampiness of the land and "masses of fallen timbers" were the primary reasons for it's slow settlement.

The area around Tasek Bera, because of its swampiness, had been one of the last refuges of old forest.

Like each of his predecessors since Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mr. Clinton seems at last to have discovered the compound that was founded as a wartime retreat to be an antidote as well to Washington and all its swampiness.

One source says that the name refers to the swampiness and frequent formation of puddles near 22nd Street and Lehigh Avenue, which is similar to explanation given for the name of the Swampoodle neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

More important, apart from the swampiness of the marshes forming the Maremma (which extended all the way down to Rome) they were notorious for malaria: there was something in the damp air which meant that people living in the hamlets on the road to Tarquinia and then on to Rome were plagued with ague.