He took off after her and they were chasing around the yard, around hopscotches and tag games and sand castles and out to the marshy woods.

Indeed, for many young people here, the primary activities are renting movies, going to parties or drinking in the marshy woods down the Henry Hudson Trail.

As it turned out, this was a great idea that may have aided immensely in the outcome... All were in dense marshy woods, or on the terribly muddy road wading through water two to three feet deep and through thick underbrush.

The gray wolf was rarely seen now, except at night-there was more traffic on the road, and the massive creature haunted the marshy woods they rode through instead of the widening trail that led to the city.

Back home in Maryland, Rock and I wandered among the skunk cabbage poking up through the marshy woods, eyeing the wild grapevines hanging like sturdy ropes from the trees.

At the moment, our marshy woods is a mass of emerald green skunk cabbages and May apples (Podopyllum peltatum) unfurling their umbrellas.

Under the torrid late afternoon sun, the marshy woods was steaming with heat.

The police said the murder suspect, Richard Toledo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, turned himself in early Friday after the woman had managed to escape and he had been cornered in marshy woods by scores of officers, barking bloodhounds and a police helicopter.

I thought of my father leading us through the marshy wood that's now a golf course, and of following our noses to the pungent colony of skunk cabbages that lure flies seeking false promises in the smelly striated leaves.

It comprises the vast marshy woods of Makiš, on the eastern bank of the Sava river and the largest river island in Belgrade, Ada Ciganlija.