Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The ground on the west shore of the river, opposite Columbus, is low and in places marshy and cut up with sloughs. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.