Meanings of old slough in English

Push him back into the old slough.

Indeed Stanton, with a contemptuous shrug, had the same as said on Sabbath evening, that his uncle had "dropped into the old slough."

He would gather, if he might, only those who when helped would help themselves-whowhen given opportunity would rise out of old slough and briar.

"Hullo, Bill," he replied to this man, "you old slough hog!

Do we then regard reform as impossible, and society to be doomed to struggle on in its old sloughs of oppression and abuses?

"Deep in the old slough?"