| 单词 | boggy |
| 例句 | And so the Bog created a Body: a great Beast that walked out of the Bog on its own strong, boggy legs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She hadn’t thought about this boggy soil—muskeg—since before she had died. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The morning of the race, an inspection of the track revealed a boggy surface, especially along the rail, where Seabiscuit preferred to run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was there, and together they waded barefoot in the boggy grass, pulling the heavy white hallow-blooms. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z A bad, bad week, but the shores of Albert Lea Lake are boggy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing site was at the near edge of the great desolate region, a peat-marsh too boggy to be farmed or settled, and now in mid-Irrem a flat frozen waste many feet deep in snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Obviously she had been that way before, for she dodged the boggy pits as though by habit. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The ground grew soft, and in places boggy; springs appeared in the banks, and soon they found themselves following a brook that trickled and babbled through a weedy bed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He did well to send me, Reek told himself as he climbed back onto his stot to lead his ragged column back across the boggy ground to where the northmen were encamped. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In a boggy pocket smothered by drapes of ivy and mistletoe, me and Moran collapsed, too knackered to take another step. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Pollard had delivered a masterpiece of reinsmanship, avoiding the traps and saving ground while minimizing his run along the boggy rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Miyax tied another red patch on the sedge, rounded a boggy pond, and climbed the heave where the owl lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water. Moss grows under their arms in place of hair, and they can live with nothing to eat but mud and breathe swamp water." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Along the rotting-plank road, wooden stakes were driven deep into the boggy ground; there the corpses festered, red and dripping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It landed in the boggy distance, glowing weakly in the dark. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling’s horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The ground now became damp, and in places boggy and here and there they came upon pools, and wide stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some snowdrops'd come out in the boggy spot, by Dad's greenhouse. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z During World War II, the Army thought the punishing conditions made it an ideal place to establish Camp Hale, which sat on a boggy wetland just outside the town. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z "It's creating big, boggy puddles in the broad bean bed," he noted, peering out into the garden from the shed where he records the programme. A week in radio: The Shed; Cerys Matthews' Blue Horizon; Midweek 2012-06-14T20:00:01Z First to quake is the assumption that Polly Harvey is foremost an artist of the interior, mapping the jagged peaks of desire and the boggy ground of memory. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake ? review 2011-02-13T00:15:33Z In wet weather, quicksand forms on the boggy top, and the gullies rage water over the serrations seen from below, he said. Climbing the summits of Irish literature James Joyce's short story Araby shows us a Dubliner stumbling over the boggy ground of adolescence. Darkness in literature: James Joyce's Araby 2012-12-20T10:35:35Z Monarda, or bee balm, as a mint relative, doesn’t like boggy conditions but needs even moisture. Three head-turning perennials Washington gardeners should try this year 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z For all its high-flying zaniness the movie has the sting of life, and its humor feels dredged up from the same dark, boggy place from which Samuel Beckett extracted his yuks. Movie Review: ‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ Directed by David O. Russell 2012-11-15T20:57:57Z “It was a very boggy ancient woodland,” he said. A bonnie glimpse of the exotic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z My garden is looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment: brown and boggy and full of leaves. TV review: Life in the Cottage Garden with Carol Klein (BBC2) 2011-01-07T23:45:01Z Five minutes later we cut across the Venice Lagoon — golden sun burning through the fog, luggage stacked on white leather seats, the air heavy with the smell of boggy wetlands. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The area’s boggy terrain was better suited for spotting gators than establishing an urban center. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Prior to that, he says the only thing he noticed was that one section of the backyard always seemed to be a bit “boggy.” Homeowner shocked after heavy rain reveals secret buried under backyard garden 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z In February, it opened its second engineered wetland in South L.A., a boggy, weedy marsh on the site of a former MTA bus yard. Is that a forest downtown? 2012-07-07T16:00:00Z I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z As I meandered through hummocky spruce woodlands, with plank bridges over boggy patches, it felt a lot like northern Maine, until I scampered over a rock ledge. On a Maine Island, Steep Bluffs and Solitude 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Deepest of all is the archaic age, where mythology locates Romulus and Remus and their Trojan ancestor Aeneas, and archaeology finds clusters of wooden huts on hilltops around the boggy forum. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Anyway, individual taste is a sacred entitlement of mass culture, and most movies sink into a happily boggy terrain of tepid subjectivity on their way from the multiplex to the Netflix queue. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z With his signature wit, Wolfe takes aim at evolution — or, as he sees it, “a messy guess — baggy, boggy, soggy and leaking all over the place.” Paperback Row 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z While traipsing through a moor during or after a hard rain, each step becomes something of a calculation: Which foothold is least likely to give way, leading to a boot filled with boggy water? In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The story takes place in the early 1860s, in a boggy town in central Ireland called Athlone. ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet “Imbeciles” is often a boggy read, and a disorganized one at that. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z He was drawn to old, ramshackle houses and boggy places in the woods where dead trees stood like Gothic steeples. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z Thud thud thud, trudge trudge trudge, up through Norwood Park, past the swings and skateboard ramps, through the boggy, doggy hollow, then left along the main road towards the Crystal Palace transmitter. ‘There is a thrill to seeing your stomach getting flatter’: why I run 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z The map describes “Eeyore’s gloomy place” as “rather boggy and sad.” The English countryside that inspired ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ still enchants kids of all ages 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the early 1860s, in a boggy town in central Ireland, an 11-year-old girl refuses all food and stays in her cramped bedroom with her nurse. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The night of the Kenneth Lane soiree, she wore a vintage vaguely ’40s suit with a peplum jacket, below-the-knee skirt, ruffled blouse and sensible pumps that had seen their share of boggy installations. An ?Outsider? Blossom Upends the Flowerpot 2011-03-30T22:41:16Z The sand beneath was like syrup – waterlogged and boggy – and I was sinking into it. Experience: I was attacked by a seal 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z We didn’t see much wildlife on the 3.5-mile hike aside from a handful of deer grazing in a boggy field. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It loves boggy areas and it spreads by rhizomes. Perspective | National Arboretum revives an innovative garden that ran out of steam 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z David Marshall hurling himself low on a boggy Serbian patch of grass. 'Scotland on verge of watershed moment in Spain' 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Read more about the boggy conditions at Burning Man here. Watch: Huge queues as Burning Man exodus begins 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Other revellers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties. Burning Man: Revellers begin to leave as boggy conditions improve 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z In that case, a couple building a house in a boggy area near Idaho's Priest Lake sued the EPA in 2008 after the agency told them they needed a Clean Water Act permit. What a pending Supreme Court ruling could mean for Biden’s new clean water protections 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December. The Miraculous Life and Afterlife of Charlene Richard 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z However, low cloud persisted and when the pilot actually returned to the landing site two days later - accompanied by another pilot - he found the area was now "very boggy". Pilot's public road take-off near Duns ends with plane in hedge 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The story of the Netherlands’ long struggles against excess water is written all over its boggy landscape. Researchers Reported a Staggering Decline in Wildlife. Here’s How to Understand It. 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Drought: The normally boggy Netherlands is drying out. Russia’s Revenge 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z ENSCHEDE, the Netherlands — The story of the Netherlands’ centuries of struggle against water is written all over its boggy, low-lying landscape. They’re ‘World Champions’ of Banishing Water. Now, the Dutch Need to Keep It. 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z These wild, boggy places are sometimes referred to as the UK's rainforests, because of their ability to soak up vast quantities of carbon. Climate change: England's gardeners face peat compost ban 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Vast swathes of land south of Rome were boggy swamps for thousands of years until a monumental drainage programme in the 1930s turned malaria-infested marshes into prime agricultural fields. Erdogan wants Ukraine grain sea exports deal in writing this week 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z If you go that route, make sure to nourish the plants only with rainwater and give them a boggy soil with a mix of sand, peat and sphagnum moss appropriate for the species. Micro greens: How Seattleites are maximizing even the tiniest of yards | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Others, like the North American pitcher plant, are from the country’s steamy, boggy parts of the southeast, so they prefer to be outdoors in Southern California where they can drink up all our heat. Inside the secret world of SoCal’s carnivorous plant collectors 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The sound of Russian heavy artillery rumbled constantly around the flat, boggy terrain. Next stop Kyiv - the battle on the capital's outskirts 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z At Westhay Nature Reserve, sphagnum moss and sundews form a carpet on the boggy ground and the wetlands attract rare birds such as bitterns and curlews. Climate change: England's gardeners face peat compost ban 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Two women who got stuck in mud in boggy parkland have been rescued after they were spotted by a police drone. Sutton Park: Women stuck in mud saved by police drone 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z And it’s yet another reason why any Russian decision to invade Ukraine is likely to depend very little upon fears that a spring thaw will hinder tanks from crossing boggy ground. In Russia’s Ukraine plans, how much does the mud matter? 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z But they favor a wet, boggy environment, so a closed container is to their liking. How to build a terrarium, from plant selection to scene building 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The Ramblers say more people took to walking during the lockdowns, causing deep mud and boggy conditions. Walking paths have become bogs and need repair, says charity 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Down the road, at Honeygar farm, Somerset Wildlife Trust is working to return land that has been drained for farming back into a natural boggy state. Climate change: England's gardeners face peat compost ban 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Sergeant Keith Bennett said: "They were unfamiliar with the area, stuck in boggy ground and it was pitch black…it would have been a scary situation for anyone." Sutton Park: Women stuck in mud saved by police drone 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Balletic is one word frequently used to describe Laurie Cunningham, an electric winger who glided effortlessly across the boggy pitches of the 1970s, swaying past defenders with poise and purpose. The electric trailblazer who met a tragic end in Madrid 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z His route was pathless, boggy and extremely difficult. Club completes challenge to bag all 282 Munros in a single day 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The winning time was the second slowest in the 10 women’s Olympic marathons, but time did not matter on this boggy morning. The Olympic Marathon in Sapporo: A Test of Survival 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z On his latest run he faced hail, rain and strong winds across Yorkshire, with boggy moorland near Britain's highest pub, The Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, proving a challenge. Ultra marathon record-breaker shares secrets of Pennine Way success 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, turning rock-hard frozen permafrost into a land of lakes, sinkholes, and boggy peat in the summer. This wilderness crown jewel is opening for oil drilling. Why is industry interest so weak? 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Michael Robinson with the Center for Biological Diversity said the thistle loves boggy soil but the seeps and springs it depends on are drying up due to climate change. US proposes protections for rare thistle in New Mexico 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Some runners bagged 12 summits covering distances of up to 40 miles, while others made solo efforts after nightfall on routes which were boggy or had no paths. Club completes challenge to bag all 282 Munros in a single day 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z "I've done a lot of the Munros many times but I hadn't done the really remote ones. Some of the remote Munros were boggy and uninspiring." 'Toughest' Munro-bagging record broken by a week 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Right now, huge amounts of carbon are stored in boggy, often frozen regions stretching across northern parts of the world. Warming world 'devastating' for frozen peatlands 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Taking the pulse of this rare bear in a remote, mountainous, boggy and largely roadless rainforest archipelago is no easy task. Hair From Ghostly Bears Reveals New Genetic Secrets 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z In the report, the scientists revealed most of the forest counted as old growth by the province is actually small alpine or boggy forest. Scientists say the last of British Columbia’s old-growth trees will soon be gone, if policies don’t change 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In 1996, managers in Alaska, for example, modified boggy riverside habitat to benefit moose by crushing a shrub called feltleaf willow. Should Ecologists Treat Male and Female Animals like ‘Different Species’? 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Bad weather, boggy underfoot conditions and unrelenting attacks are among the factors that lead to the withdrawal of troops a couple of days later. The times and life of the world's oldest man 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Just over 100 kilometres southwest of Thurso, the boggy soil is so sodden in spots that I sink up to my knees and nearly lose a boot. How peat could protect the planet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z That was followed by a blizzard, and then warm temperatures that left fields a boggy mess. Frozen harvest leaves bitter taste for U.S. sugar beet farmers 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z PJ's first sight of Mary's mother, Ann, was of a desperate figure stumbling through the twilight on the steep, boggy ground that leads down to the lake. What happened to Mary Boyle? No body recovered 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Making matters worse is the fact that Fishlake is built on what was once a boggy fenland, that was drained many years ago. What are the factors making floods worse? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Scientists say it is more important than ever that we restore and safeguard these boggy landscapes. Peatlands 'turning into carbon sources' 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Backers of Mr. Bevin say that he is simply taking on long-neglected problems, the boggy legacy of nearly a century of Democratic governance, and that a little roughness is tolerable, even necessary at times. In the Kentucky Governor’s Race, It’s an Unpopular Man vs. an Unpopular Party 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The routes she takes have a start and finish but in-between Lisa is often following animal tracks and trying to avoid cliffs, the incoming tide or boggy areas. Walking on the edge of hidden islands 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Spanish conquistadors searched for these treasures but called the paramos the Empire of Darkness, and many perished in the cold and boggy lands. In the land of El Dorado, clean water has become ‘blue gold’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z A number of small islands have emerged at the water’s surface, and several holiday homes that were built on the shoreline now stand at least 100 metres from the boggy edge. Where Jesus once preached, the holy waters are draining away 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The chances of her disappearing over the side of a boat or into a boggy ditch were definitely higher than Bier would have liked. 'My sleepless nights over Sandra Bullock's blindfold' 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z For a book and a play that are largely about the moral high ground, the legal brouhaha unfolded in a kind of boggy moral bottomland. The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Holiday-makers and fishermen teeter over expanding boggy beaches to reach the waterline. Israel sees desalination as Sea of Galilee's savior 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z A remote, boggy stretch of land on the north coast of Scotland is likely to become the UK's first spaceport. Scotland to host first UK spaceport 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z MOBILE, Alabama, lies at the raggedy end of the American mainland, amid a boggy landscape of swamp and forest where five rivers empty into the sea. The story of one of the last slaves imported to America 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Yet though the suffragists did make waves, particularly with their “Mud March” through London’s boggy streets in 1907, it was the suffragettes’ audacity that secured publicity. What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Many own at least one indifferent, boggy corner of land where animals get stuck and only rushes grow well. Trees are covering more of the land in rich countries 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Between the shore and the lake is a mile of boggy, broken ground. Scientists Brave Arctic Perils for Climate Science 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Facing a long walk back to their car across boggy land, they phoned the police for advice. Hogwarts Express rescues stranded family 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z A new $1.4 million State Patrol airplane located Kniefel, but the boggy ground was too soft for ground teams to reach him. Hunter rescued after 3 nights lost in Minnesota woods 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z General McMaster, in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground. At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In a boggy forest near Asheville, North Carolina, I once spent a night two summers ago tracking down three species of glowing mushrooms. Hunting mushrooms that glow on your path 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z So as to protect it from unwanted intrusion, the exact location of this site – a boggy, wooded spot, named after a local farm worker – is a secret. The Stonehenge tunnel: ‘A monstrous act of desecration is brewing’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A three-mile walk with small children across difficult boggy ground or along the nearby railway line were discounted at impractical or too dangerous. Hogwarts Express rescues stranded family 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z The campsite is one of around 10 that dot the boggy terrain, and are a striking sight alongside the brightly painted, low-slung buildings housing the multi-billion-dollar corporation. Living under a tarp next to Facebook HQ: 'I don't want people to see me' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z But then, a telltale beeping on a patch of boggy ground. Danish boy finds remains of German Messerschmitt in a field - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Fawaz Atmeh and Mohammed Musa's families were among the first to flee Russia's intervention in the Syrian conflict, sheltering in tents on boggy ground near the Turkish border as jets bombed their villages further east. Trapped by war and a Turkish wall, Syrians dig in for long exile 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Native Venus flytraps, in fact, don’t grow anywhere in the wild except in boggy soil within 100 kilometres or so of Wilmington, North Carolina, on the eastern coast of the United States. The long reach of the monster plant 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Towering cypress trees splay their roots into the boggy soil. Is wood a green source of energy? Scientists are divided 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z We walk over boggy ground past a dead Ski-Doo and Darlene, the eldest, shows us how to use Arctic cotton to light the moss, which is used to cook meat and fish here. Emma Thompson: What You Learn From a Week in the Arctic 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Several drinkers in The Eagle talked of petty crime and reckless driving: bangers with Polish plates bombing along the Fen roads, their drivers clipping the boggy curbs and flipping into drainage ditches. Brexitland versus Londonia 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z A torrential rain began to fall, turning the field into a boggy sump. General Butt Naked, the Repentant Warlord 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Why do these streets in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, bear names both boggy and tropical? New York Today: Dressing for the Occasion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In his boggy brogue, Martin Pryce, 74, told a tale of a Norwegian dockworker shipwrecked in the harbor for two days. Irish Haven Survives in a Changing Brooklyn 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Officers scoured the dense and boggy woods in northern New York overnight, and others carrying rifles manned checkpoints and examined vehicles, opening trucks and peering into windows. New York prison escape: state troopers search cabin as manhunt continues 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z For example, long boggy brown peat cores that record millennia of deposits suddenly turn black as night at their tops from the recent addition of sooty carbon. Why Carbon Is the Best Marker for a New Human Age 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The trouble-free spring is a relief to farmers in Elliott's area who struggled to plant in boggy conditions last year. Western Canada farmers set fastest planting pace in a decade 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z We rambled on the beach and through the boggy countryside, and I managed to complete the seven miles, the last one in soft, steady “Irish mist.” Irish Rambling By The Ring Of Kerry: Dingle, The Skelligs, Killarney ... And More 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Its legs were short and stumpy, but its feet were very large with hooves, which would have prevented it from sinking into the boggy wetlands where it lived. Mystery of giant arm dinosaur solved 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Then most of the area surrounding our house was just boggy wasteland but it didn't take long for the high-rise flats, houses and maisonettes to be built. 'I loved/loathed my 1960s high-rise block' 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Where the nationalists are still on very boggy ground is convincingly describing the sequel: what would happen the morning after Scotland woke up to find itself independent. Scottish referendum: this is the hardest campaign I have ever had to call 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z He’s got an old knee injury and it kind of got sort of ‘boggy’, is the word we use sometimes. Quotes from Seattle coach Pete Carroll following preseason loss at Oakland 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Another English training camp followed in boggy Miami, complete with industrial fans and recovery drinks customized for each player based on his sweat output. World Cup 2014: England and Italy Prepare to Play in Manaus 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Getting gooey about Britain, they say, would risk forsaking the solid ground of reason for a boggy nationalist trap. The emotion card 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Certain areas are still so boggy that heavy equipment cannot enter, and no roads exist from most of the work area to allow material to be trucked out. Landslide’s Debris Hampers a Search for Remains 2014-04-01T01:08:53Z On a compact parcel of boggy land, bounded by an old stone wall, Old Tom Morris laid out the new playground, with 16 holes opening for play on May 2, 1891. British Open: Hunger Games 2013-07-11T04:00:00Z Under the plan, a number of companies are seeking to erect hundreds of wind turbines across the boggy midlands of Ireland. 'Giant' Irish turbines to power UK 2013-01-24T06:01:10Z It was boggy and everybody will be tired tomorrow because they put in a good shift. Manchester United's clean sheet gives Ferguson an early birthday present 2012-12-30T23:00:01Z It is found in boggy heaths in Connemara and Mayo, and is also native in West France, Spain and the Azores. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Belvedere Lake is a good deal larger than Loch Ouel, and its shores are better wooded, but part of them, in fact a very large part of them, is boggy. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The great difficulty attending the sport is the exceedingly boggy nature of the ground. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z The way across the plain was rather boggy, and we had some difficulty in finding it. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z She just sent one keen look at the girl's flushed face, and then said: "It was more than a bit boggy across the waste; you'll get home dry-shod if we go the other way." The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The reason the Irish mountains produce so much more heath than those of Great Britain is because they are less rocky and more boggy, and are in a milder climate. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The presence of pus was suspected because of a boggy, doughy feeling in the exudation tumor. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The weather than gradually improved and the fresh snow soon melted, though the ground was left in a very boggy condition. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The boggy peat lands that are being dug up for oil sands mining are not anyone’s idea of an ideal vacation spot. Green Blog: Study Disputes Oil Sands 'Restoration' Pledge 2012-03-12T19:05:50Z One who lives in a boggy country; Ð applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z When these Sorts of Fevers occur in boggy marshy Countries, they are not only very chronical or tedious, but Persons infested with them are liable to frequent Relapses. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z You avoid a boggy gap, which the two riders ahead of you are making for, and catch hold of your horse for a clean "stake-and-bound." Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Well, you'd have a fine time, driving over, that boggy waste, wouldn't you? Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The paralleled tracks widened a few miles further on to get to the solid side of a boggy reach. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z A construction of the same type is used in military engineering and fortification as a foundation for a temporary roadway across boggy ground or as a backing for earthworks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z As it is usually found in boggy grounds, Dr. Darwin deemed it a mucilage voided by herons after they have eaten frogs, and Pennant attributed it to gulls. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z There were two burns to ford, some curious kind of grips to jump, and several boggy places to circumnavigate. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z The place lies in the middle of a vast, level heath, on the soft declivity of a rising ground, which on the other side falls away sharply down to a boggy dell. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z It affects the loose soil of dry, upland woods, but never grows in wet or boggy places. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z "In moist and boggy land the spruce or the willow tribes succeed best." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The variety palustre, which affects boggy situations, and flowers in late summer and autumn, has nearly entire leaves, and the outer bracts of its involucre are erect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z If he could once plunge among the reeds he had a reasonable chance of escaping, for the horses would be at a disadvantage on the boggy ground. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Runn, run, n. in India, a tract of sandy or boggy land—often overflowed by the tide. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The little channel is boggy in its course, and the country is subject to great floods in the wet season. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z They prosper, however, in Ireland; but although the air there is moist, the soil is dry, except in the boggy districts. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Leaving the Doctor to guard the canoe from a crowd of Kaukauna urchins, who were disposed to be over-familiar with our property, I went down through a boggy field to view the situation. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z The pass at the ford was narrow, unused, and boggy. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z By extravasation of blood is meant the pouring out of blood into the areolar tissues, which become boggy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z For a week or two, when no team could have hauled a load over the boggy trails, Harding was busy mending harness and getting ready his implements. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z That day I traveled steady, but not making very rapid progress, on account of winding around sand hills, watching for indians and going around the heads of boggy sloughs. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z Here, the high banks had receded, with several miles of heavily wooded, boggy bottoms intervening. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Before the enemy could get through the mud and push his batteries over the boggy fields, our trains had reached the mountain gorge, and the rear-guard was on the march following. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z Not far from these trees there is a pool of water having a boggy bottom, that goes by the name of “Hell Hole.” Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z "You can see that it's soft and boggy in wet weather." Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z They squelch over a patch of boggy ground. Margaret Atwood: “Stone Mattress.” 2011-12-12T05:00:00Z Much of this was dug up out of the boggy land, and was found to be “as fat as fir,” to use an expression of Ritchie’s. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Later he had taken the little fellow to see how peat was cut with long, narrow, flat shovels, 'shaped like a marrow-spoon,' from the boggy top of Eglwysilan Mountain. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z The glade was green and in many places soft, though by no means boggy. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The ribbed wheels went in deeper as they crushed down the boggy mold, and ground up the fence posts the men thrust under them. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The valley was boggy, as well as hot, and the deep and sinuous ditch that by courtesy was supposed to drain it, was blind with rushes and tall fronds of Osmunda Regalis fern. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Its favourite summer resorts in England are lakes which are lined with rushes, boggy places on the moors, and sedgy rivers. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z This road is reported to have no steep gradients, no boggy parts, and no unfordable streams. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z At a boggy patch the grass was high, and a ditch went up the middle and into the bush. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z As I made my way downwards over the knife-edged ridges of rock and along their intervening boggy furrows, I should myself have been grateful for the guidance of the cat. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Arrival, blown and heated, at the boggy end of the valley, to find the original conditions prevailing as before. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z It received its name of Wood Sandpiper from having been observed occasionally to resort to boggy swamps of birch and alder, and has been seen even to perch on a tree. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z He's wet through, and sinking fast in the boggy ground, and speechless with cold. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z When he came down the ground shook and he saw the shelf was not, as he imagined, a solid block but two or three large stones embedded in boggy soil. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z We had now arrived at the plateau above the cliffs—a place of brown, low-growing ling, complicated by boggy runnels, and heavily sprinkled with round stones. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z The floor of the shed had been laid à la corduroy style—as so many boggy roads are built upon in the west. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z Arrived at the summit of the high ground, which they had been for some time gradually ascending, the young merchant pointed out a vast boggy tract, about two miles off, in the vale beneath them. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The specimen recorded above from the black spruce-tamarack bog was taken near Gogebic Lake in a boggy swamp, which, while dominated by black spruces, yet contained a considerable number of arbor-vitae and hemlocks. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z To indulge in this aërial chase with success, these warblers select for their home and hunting ground some low woodland growth where a sluggish stream attracts myriads of insects to the boggy neighborhood. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z No English landscape is more beautiful than one through which a little river winds, its banks and the boggy spots tributary to it softened by billows of living green. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z For fourteen hours the troops had groped their way along the boggy roads: and they had marched but one-and-twenty miles. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z They found a trail through tall grass and reeds, and followed it across a patch of boggy soil until it led them to an opening in the trees. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Covered by this the main line sweeps down at a run, crosses the low, boggy ground between them, and toils up the ridge on which we are stationed. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z In July, 1849, he was banished by the French Government to the boggy country of Morbihan, in Brittany; he preferred, however, to go over to London, where he remained to the end of his life. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z We had many exciting times fording streams, for many of the streams on the way were noted for quicksand and boggy places. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The shallow upland valleys, moorland with their intense summer sun and the riverless, boggy behaviour of the water breed the pest inevitably. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The floor of the church, sunk below the level of the road, was as a piece of boggy ground leaving the feet damp, and breathing a clammy horror on the air. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z I crossed the piece of boggy meadow, vivid green in the fitful sunshine, and climbed upon the sea-wall and sat down. Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century 2011-08-25T02:00:27.073Z Again on the next day he followed them, seeing them sometimes on the soft, green moss, again at the side of a stream, or in some boggy place. Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life 2011-08-23T02:00:29Z The moor was boggy, and he crossed patches of quagmire which trembled even under his light weight. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In the south, where the soil is not boggy, it is far better sport than in Northern Russia, where there are such enormous stretches of marshy woods and tundra. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The former are to be sought in shallow pools, especially in open boggy moors. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z The mystery life-saver took off her jacket, laid across the boggy mud and sprawled over it to grab the young girl. Jogger saves girl trapped in mud 2011-07-16T15:27:13Z Here the path was deep and boggy, there water trickled, and the boughs hung low, swishing against them as they went by. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z They led to the most practicable fords of rivers, they avoided swamps and boggy grounds, and evinced a thorough geographical knowledge of the conformation of the country. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z There are crags to climb, and boggy dongas to be avoided. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z "Well," said Fin, "will you find dry glens of ridges, or go in deep boggy places where there is danger of drowning?" Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z When at last the floods subsided I had the greatest trouble in making my way, because there would be the most treacherous boggy holes where one least expected them. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z Krebs’s quick march through a wealth of material hits a few boggy academic patches but becomes increasingly sure-footed. The Idea of Germany, From Tacitus to Hitler 2011-06-10T21:25:11Z For some perverse reason, the land there — stony, boggy, sandy, full of scrub pine and poison ivy — has given rise to a surprising number of little nine-holers. On Par: When a Bad Golf Course Edges Into Goodness 2011-05-23T01:07:46Z On the second day they turned east, crossing the boggy river and mounting up on a great plateau, and then Bowles saw why Henry Lee's remark was true. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Personally I love walking my dog up among the turbines - you couldn't walk up there before they put the access roads in, it was too boggy. Wind expansion 2011-05-12T17:36:39Z The species is now restricted to boggy sites in northern Britain where the food plant of its caterpillar, hare's-tail cottongrass, grows. Comeback for comma 2011-05-01T08:06:05Z They are hilly and boggy, entirely destitute of trees, but covered with a variety of grasses very nutritive for the sheep and cattle the rearing of which is the principal industry. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Mr Hampton described how his vehicle was about 70 yards behind Mr Lennon's which was going downhill on a track towards a boggy hole, which was about 15ft deep and 30ft wide. Football captain was electrocuted 2011-04-11T14:50:27Z The greater part of it was a miasmatic swamp, the boggy soil of which could not be walked upon with safety even in dry weather. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z We had done about an hour's hard work ploughing through the rough boggy land, when we decided that we had better return to our hut once more, and tackle the bog next morning. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Fifty years ago, I judge that the greater part of the hay made in New-England was cut from sour, boggy land, that was devoted to grass simply because nothing else could be done with it. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z The route from Dublin to Cork leads mostly through a barren, boggy, miserable country, with here and there an oasis of waving green and gold, telling of careful cultivation and wise husbandry. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z I was completely wet through before we got there, and came back plunging from tuft to tuft of rushes in the boggy moorlands. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z To the north a boggy plain stretched away and away, ridged with black pits, like long earthworks, from which the turf had been cut. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Fox led them over the worst pieces of boggy ground he could find. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z This lady, who had not quite succeeded in clearing a high post-and-rail with a boggy ditch on the landing side, was down and under her horse. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z It is a dismal land up there on the Waste,—a sad, hard country, with its stone walls and boggy uplands, that must have bred a sad, hard race, one would think. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The ground was miry and boggy, and the pony with difficulty dragged the chaise. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Apart from local details and difficulties, the ground was not quite so bad as had been expected, though bad enough, being greasy and boggy after the rain, but not impassable. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Parts of it were decidedly boggy even after the great drought. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z In many places swampy streams trickled along undefined channels, and though their banks were shallow, they were boggy and difficult to cross on account of the trunks and branches lying in them. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z The path was rather boggy; yesterday's rain had made it quite without a foothold in places. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z We gentlemen must walk through the lane, where the ground is so boggy.” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z And a gun was brought into action from a Tank which had come up as far as an advanced blockhouse, in spite of the boggy ground. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The grey horse rose out of the boggy stuff with all the impetus that pace and temper could give, but it was not enough. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Indeed, to Billy Wingo the future bore the appearance of a mighty boggy ford. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z They now entered a grove of birch trees, where the ground was somewhat boggy and demanded added attention. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Even the meadow had become partly boggy, and in spring was often quite under water; now large stones served as a kind of rough bridge at the very wet places. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Beneath us now is a forest dark and drear, muddy and boggy; if we lighted down there, thou and I would never get out again so long as the world lasts.” Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z A stone wall, a rough patch of heather, a boggy field, dinted deep and black with hoof marks, and the stern chase was at an end. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Here greed gave way to naked stupidity when developers started building houses in the boggy flood plain five years ago. So Ireland's back to exporting its best known natural resource ? emigrants 2010-11-21T14:00:00Z Poison oak, which is found mostly out West, and poison sumac, which thrives in wet boggy areas in the mid-Atlantic, elicit similar reactions. Increased carbon in atmosphere may explain bumper crop of poison ivy 2010-08-31T04:00:00Z Rates of carbon storage in Alaskan peatlands were highest when those boggy areas were young. Alaskan Peatlands Expanded Rapidly As Ice Age Waned 2010-04-07T16:05:00Z Ms. Moraes was born and raised in Benjamin Constant, a boggy logging town across a tributary from Peru. Floating Loans on the River Bank 2010-03-16T00:54:00Z For it's there - stuck in boggy marshland - the last Plantagenet king of England met his death in the Battle of Bosworth Field. History unearthed 2010-02-19T13:57:00Z Notwithstanding the boggy condition of the ground, when it was not deep with snow, a rumor arose, though it was impossible to trace the source, that the Germans contemplated a great offensive. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The grassy path had been saturated by the rain, and more than once her feet stuck fast in the boggy ground, which oozed and gurgled as she set them free. The Undying Past Let your eyes run along the strips of beach and boggy, peer under overhanging banks and among piles of drift, and scrutinize closely every log spanning streams. Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. She descended quickly, almost recklessly, scrambling anyhow over rocks and through brambles, and splashing through a boggy piece where a trickle of water had formed a pool. The School by the Sea But aside from an occasional boggy hole, the water had drained away. Into the Primitive The wheels sank deep into the boggy road that ran between withered reeds and sedge. The Wish A Novel The country beyond Waterloo was boggy, and the road in some places made of large logs, so that we were very disagreeably jolted. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Down the valley flows a large brook, traversing near its mouth a considerable tract of rough, boggy, and heathy ground, which produces a few birch-trees, and a great abundance of the Myrica gale. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology A journey tedious enough in the best of seasons is not improved by April rains and boggy roads. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The ground towards the water was boggy and spongy, and the scent of the thickly growing myrtles was heavy in the air. Bye-Ways The wheels sank deep into the boggy road, winding along between withered reed-grass, and often the water splashed up as high as the box-seat. The Wish A Novel At first the road lay through an open stretch of flat boggy grassland, where stagnant pools of water glimmered with the light of the cart lamps as the vehicle shambled by. Carnival On the boggy heaths of Galway and Mayo a form of this species is found; it is known as E. mediterranea var. hibernica, and grows 2 to 5 feet high. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Never stand still," he would often say to his pupil, "where the ground is boggy. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The creature moved in herds like the buffalo from swamp to swamp; and old age coming on, the individual, unable to keep up with the herd, sank to his death in the boggy ground. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Small bushes, bracken, and brambles mixed among the heather made walking difficult, and there were several boggy places which she was obliged to skirt. The Head Girl at the Gables In the deep, soft ground, rendered almost boggy in parts by the recent and continuous rains, their imprint was as the face of an open book. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Needs moist soil, indeed will grow in boggy places Garden form ,, hastata Shrub 6 to 8 ft. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The two-leaved pine, though far more abundant about the Tuolumne meadow region, reaches its greatest size on stream-sides hereabouts and around meadows that are rather boggy. My First Summer in the Sierra We now know that certain very minute plants, which live in quiet water, cause iron brought into that water to be precipitated, and to accumulate in the bottom of these boggy pools. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place All at once everything seemed to be rough and horrid; great trees, uprooted, lay topsy-turvy in our way, rotten branches were under foot everywhere, and the ground was boggy and swampy. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself For centuries at a time, these gloomy and steaming forests grew in boggy land, only a few inches above the level of the sea. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Needs moist soil, indeed will grow in boggy places Europe ,, humilis Shrub 2 ft. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The path was uncertain in spots, and they had to be careful for fear of getting into some boggy hole. Boys of The Fort Or, A Young Captain's Pluck The sledge, on quitting the boggy ground and reaching the level turf, again had a smooth course before it where some progress could be made. Pretty Michal “The path over the meadow was queachy:” this word, meaning soft or boggy, is now obsolete, and cannot be used with propriety. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected It may be only a bit of boggy marshland, it may be a reedy lakeside, but water there will surely be. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Needs moist soil, indeed will grow in boggy places. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Often enough the last stage of his journey proceeds down some boggy boreen, or up some craggy hill-track, inaccessible to any wheel or hoof that ever was shod.” Our Southern Highlanders One of the very few Celtic place-names retained from the previous occupiers is Monmore, which in the tongue of the ancient Britons signified “the boggy mere.” The Annals of Willenhall August 5th, under clear skies as usual, we struck at once into a trail which for seventeen miles might have been a park bridle-path, a little steeper, and in places a little boggy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. A great gravelly hill rises abruptly from the southern edge of this boggy home of shy plants, clothed with century old pines. Old Plymouth Trails To make a bridge, across a boggy stream, with no other material than the short, knotty, hard and crooked chaparral bush, was no easy matter. Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war In many places it was boggy, while in others it was rocky. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia Between their trenches and ours, at this point, was low land, so boggy as to be almost impassable. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" A short distance behind us was a small patch of swampy, boggy ground. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House Presently they came on them—a black mass swinging down the road, which was very boggy on either hand. Nuala O'Malley It's rather boggy land about there, and we get all muddy and wet unless it's really dry weather. Miss Mouse and Her Boys I would remember also, if I were you, that you still stand on a very boggy foundation.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) He caused, accordingly, a boggy moss to grow in the hollows of this dreary land, and made this to generate in countless multitudes a small, winged, venomous fiend, named mosquito. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 The weather for several weeks before had been rainy and close, and the flocks of the inmate had been thinned by the common scourge of the sheep-farmer at such seasons on damp, boggy farms. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. I always go for them every year, just over that old fence, in a boggy place. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The admirable Cameronian tract—perhaps you will think this a cheat—is to be boned into David Balfour, where it will fit better, and really furnishes me with a desired foothold over a boggy place. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Once we crossed a patch of oozy turf from which arose a score of jack-snipe; again we skirted a drying pond whose boggy edges were the hunting ground of marsh hens. Wings of the Wind The Alleghanies are not yet heaved up above the level surface of the ground, for over them are spread the boggy lands and thick forests of future coal fields. Eighth Reader A day’s rest at La Colorado sufficed to revive the spirits of the party and prepare them for the additional eight or ten hour journey over boggy morass and steep hill to La Libertad. Carmen Ariza Part of it was too boggy, and part of it too sandy, and the trees had all been cut down thirty years before by a bland grandfather, serenely indifferent to the opinion of posterity. The Benefactress Moreover, more than half of this mud deposit consisted of humus, or boggy soil. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The ground was wet and boggy for some distance on the other side.’ Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers They frequent boggy places especially "runs" lined with alders, where they bore in the soft ground for worms and grubs. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. As a young man I spent a number of particularly dangerous Summer nights in the thermae of Caracalla—you know, of course, what boggy ground that is—and remained well. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays The country about Bodyke has an unfertile look, a stony, boggy, barren appearance. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Around and just below timberline are many lakes, and miles of marshy, boggy land. A Mountain Boyhood The stony, brown, and barren plain, the gloomy confines of the wood, the vapours of the boggy soil, united to create an earthly paradise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 The beach, or rather marsh, at the foot of the hill, where the little rivulet joined the sea, was so soft and boggy, as to be utterly impassable. An Old Sailor's Yarns They resemble boggy and moorish ground, we must run lightly over them, without ever letting our feet make the least impression.” Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness He knew where he was, however, when he reached the marsh road that ran like a causeway across the boggy ground. Partners of the Out-Trail Afterwards I inspected it every day, though, to do so, I had to cross boggy, rough country, fretted over with fallen logs. A Mountain Boyhood The boggy ground yielded to the foot more readily than ever, and Bolko trod it with a faltering step. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 They entered the wood and presently reached a stile, on the other side of which a boggy patch cut off the path from a strip of sticky ploughing. Blake's Burden Where we come upon streams of any size or depth, light wooden bridges have been built; and fascines have made some boggy parts fordable in wet weather. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand A shadowy tree came out of the fog and he felt the wheels sink in boggy soil. Partners of the Out-Trail Prouided, that the ground neither be boggy, nor the inundation be past 24. houres at any time, and but twice in the whole Summer, and so oft in the Winter. A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England As a general thing, these remarkable plants delight in cold, damp, boggy, muddy pastures, and old dark woods and thickets. Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly When she was done, she went to the boggy center, found a deep cow track that was half full of water, and carefully emptied the can into it. The Biography of a Prairie Girl Tall purple flowers were growing on a green, boggy island close by. The Manor House School The Indian found steps in a boggy patch, and Jim, descending a ravine farther on, came back to the river bank. Partners of the Out-Trail Mr. —— objected to the word slough, as an ill sounding, disagreeable word, and which conveyed at first to the eye the idea of a wet boggy place; such as the slough of Despond. Practical Education, Volume II They paused not another instant, but dashed forward, heedless now of the noise they made, thrusting branches aside and leaping from one knoll to another where the soil was boggy. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The ground on either side of the road was soft, black, and boggy, abounding in springs and scarcely susceptible of cultivation. The Land of Thor There were times, however, when the mud shoe proved of no avail, and the flat expanse remained impassable for weeks,— "A boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land." The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The grass is found covering barren boggy land in Tasmania, but is not peculiar to Tasmania. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia I was hanging on to a branch and trying to keep up because I was sinking into the boggy shore, when my two mates here come pulling up stream and picked me up. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop And once he skirted a boggy piece of land and nearly headed them off. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill In many places the hills themselves abound in boggy ground. The Land of Thor No footpath led through the wastes of heavy, boggy moorlands, the rain fell with an even downpour, and the guide stupidly mistook the way and added eight long Highland miles to the distance. The True Story Book The shores for half a mile back from the water are nothing but boggy marsh, with here and there a wooded island. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades So many seals impressed in the soft boggy soil; all leading off yonder in a fresh direction after evidently making a halt here. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop But the edge of the pool on the side where she walked was boggy. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill A chilly fog covered the country, and little more was to be seen than the jagged outline of the lava-hills, and the boggy sinks and morasses on either side of the trail. The Land of Thor The track was rough and boggy and often blocked by interminable trains of bullock carts laden with logs or dressed lumber, Urga's important exports. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia "Not giving out already, Walt," Charley said, cheerfully, as he made his way through the boggy marsh to the water to wash, followed by his chum. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades For pleasant was that Pool; and near it, then, Was neither rotten marsh nor boggy fen. A History of Elizabethan Literature He lived and possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains of the Snefell range and the sea. Mollie Charane and Other Ballads It thrills us to see it growing in golden masses in the high valleys in wet boggy places�though the precise colour may be better described as lemon-yellow rather than gold. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty I have already mentioned a tract of waste, boggy ground, lying between the Tower on the Moor and Bracken Wood, formerly the haunt of wild fowl, and still called “The Bogs Neuk.” Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter I was satisfied with the result of my inspection; not so my companions, who lost their shoes in the boggy ground, and heaped anathemas on me and my dam. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 Young King Brady moved along the edge of the boggy ground with its little pools of water, tufts of coarse grass and tracts of black, oozing mud. The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery The forest of M’Bonga has great tracts of this boggy, pestiferous land, dreadful sloughs of despond caverned with foliage, and by some curse the rubber vines entrench themselves with these. The Pools of Silence They were lying in a boggy place, and I had no means of taking them. Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity It is stony ground, and boggy; he cannot go one foot farther that night. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Before attempting to cross with bodies of troops, careful examination is made of fords, boggy places, bridges of doubtful character, ice, etc., as the case may be. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition The cottage stood in a lonely part of the estate, forming almost an island in the midst of low boggy ground; and there was no house nearer than that of M. Tonno. Werwolves Adams burst through the long speargrass to see what was happening, and, standing on the boggy margin, holding the grasses aside, gazed. The Pools of Silence The observer can never tell when he may have to wade a stream or tramp through a boggy marsh. Our Bird Comrades But how many Burgs of wood and stone they built, in different parts; what revolts, surprisals, furious fights in woody, boggy places they had, no man has counted. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing So they started, and as Julie had said, the spring that fed the boggy spot was not far back in the grove. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Then as he recovered he threw off the snake and rolled away, over Harry and close to the boggy spot. The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview It was less boggy here, and the sunlight showed stronger through the dense roof of foliage. The Pools of Silence They were making toilsome progress, over the boggy road, when all at once they were confronted by three bushrangers headed by Fletcher. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia While I was stalking about in the low, boggy part of the hollow, my attention was attracted by an odd little song that came rolling down from the pines on the mountain side. Birds of the Rockies He landed 630 men and six cannons; but these latter, being ship’s cannons on wooden carriages with small wheels, stuck in the boggy forest roads. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Yesterday, going through a boggy wood, with rocks and slimy fallen trees, I slipped and plunged forward. At Plattsburg Access to the Nile was very difficult, for overflowed, boggy land interposed. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The country about Melbourne, and far inland, was boggy, the soil being volcanic, and abounding in mud which appears to have no bottom. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia These warblers were quite abundant, and were evidently partial to the thickets covering the boggy portions of the vale. Birds of the Rockies The water of the little stream was not clean enough to wade through, for green slime floated on the top and reeds grew in its boggy mud. Thirty Indian Legends Its sources are boggy streams having little or no clearly-defined course. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science They had had woods to cut through, boggy ground to cross, and rugged stony hills to climb. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. "There's a boggy spot which a stranger is likely to fall into." In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia Before her lay the boggy place where she came in all warm seasons of the year for one thing or another: the wild marsh-marigold,—good for greens,—thoroughwort, and the root of the sweet-flag. Country Neighbors The valley of Oak Creek is there wider, deeper, and boggy. From Fort Henry to Corinth For a little way we followed a fairly open path that had previously been cleared by Louis, but by and by it began to close up and become treacherously boggy underfoot. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson They soon came to a soft boggy ground, and were obliged to make a wide circuit to avoid it. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. He knew how to creep up to a stream that had hollowed out a way under the bank of a meadow, without shaking the boggy ground. Days Off And Other Digressions Across the boggy street beyond the white picket fence the green blinds of a chamber window in an old-fashioned Southern house were thrown open, and two feminine faces peered forth, interested spectators of the scene. Waring's Peril He ran fast, choosing the shortest and easiest way, avoiding boggy patches of ground which would have checked his progress. The Northern Iron The Colour of the Hair is best of Sorrel, White and Grey; Sorrel for muddy boggy Rivers, and the two last for clear Waters. The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing In the wood and near the stream the ground was low and boggy, impassable for wagons except on a causeway. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Being soft and somewhat boggy, they are compelled to creep slowly and cautiously over it. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco It professes to treat of "Draining in General," and then of the draining of boggy land and of fens, but gives no intimation that any other lands require drainage. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles The trees had been felled in front to give the cannon play, but behind and on each side belts of dense, dwarf timber covered the boggy soil. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Rube, however, remembered that around the spring there was a tract of soft boggy ground; and he anticipated that in this the hoof-prints would leave a deep impression. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse His left, resting on the river, and his center were covered by a small stream, one of its affluents, boggy and of difficult passage. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War After hard going they reached a channel with tidal waters flowing into the Gulf of Carpentaria on 28th March, but they could not get a view of the open ocean because of boggy ground. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The ground near this place is boggy, and animals should be watered with buckets. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions We retraced the road to Colonel T——s, and crossing a boggy brook, turned up the hills and passed toward the Potomac. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War On his right the land was boggy and overgrown with brushwood, while on his left it was somewhat higher and wooded. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa There must have been miles of rough walking through woods, and tangles, and craggy and black boggy hollows, until we arrived at a wide open space where two streams ran into one another. Slain By The Doones He went awkwardly off the customary track so that he might reach the shealing the quicker by a short cut that led through boggy grass. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure On Platte River.—Road continues along the river valley over a flat country where the water stands in ponds, and is boggy in wet weather. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Just beyond that patch of timber is Nixon's Swamp, as it is called—as boggy and treacherous a spot as can be found for miles around. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall She skirted round other patches of marsh grass and black boggy places only to find it too wide again. The Wrong Woman We worked rather towards Bertry, avoiding woods and boggy bits, but the line wasn't easy to keep. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 The road was level, with the mournful boggy fields, with the wild bending woods. The Long Roll Big Muddy Creek.—The road, with the exception of two or three bad gullies, is good for ten miles; it then follows the Big Muddy bottom, which is flat and boggy. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Colonel Hayes was the first to plunge in; but his horse, after frantic struggling, mired down hopelessly in the middle of the boggy stream. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes Being done, he turned his attention to a cow which had become deeply involved in a boggy water-hole. The Wrong Woman It fell in soft, boggy ground, where he could not get to pick it up. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals So thick was the growth, so boggy the earth, that at the last it had been pronounced impenetrable and left unrazed. The Long Roll He was wrong, however, for he had not run a hundred yards when he went splashing into a boggy place, and his pursuers, who had again caught sight of him, instantly followed. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn In their chase, while passing over a piece of boggy ground, he had lost his shoes. Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory Sometimes he would even leave the water and crawl over the soggy, boggy turf; and that was slow work for Timothy Turtle. The Tale of Bobby Bobolink Tuck-me-In Tales We were going through rather a dense patch of undergrowth, where the ground beneath was very soft and full of water, evidently from some boggy springs. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas He deployed his men under cover, but now they were out in a great and ragged field, all up and down, with boggy hollows, scarred too by rail fences and blurred by low-growing briar patches. The Long Roll I looked round, but there was nothing visible but a few footprints in a muddy spot, and a hole of very moderate size, evidently going some distance down into the moist, boggy soil. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah “Reight!” cried Hickathrift, laconically; and, stooping down, they each took a hand, and half ran half waded through the black boggy mud, till they reached the path from which the young man had strayed. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Another stream was passed rising out of a boggy patch of ground, and here footprints were plentiful, but they were only those of birds that had been down to drink. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle I drew my boat up on the boggy shore at the foot of a solitary tamarack, into which I climbed as high as I could to look over the wood beyond. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 The column began to move across the meadow—not a wide meadow, a little green, boggy place commanded by the breastworks. The Long Roll Closely he scanned the hillsides and the boggy thickets and the paths 30 among the trees. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Hickathrift whistled, and the great long-legged lurcher came bounding over the rough boggy land, to leap at his master and then stand panting, open-mouthed, eager, and ready to dart anywhere his owner bade. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp So they started at a fast walk down the boggy slope. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Other doors opened off the corridor, and beyond them, along the back of the house and overlooking the boggy lake, ran another corridor, out of which no door opened to the outer world. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Stafford, watching, made out that even now the blue and grey forms in the tossing woods and boggy meadows were showing less and less their glow-worm fires, were beginning to move apart. The Long Roll Here was scope for a leader; the track was so overgrown as to be almost indistinguishable, and ran across boggy land, where it was only too easy to plunge over one's boot-tops in oozy peat. For the Sake of the School Dave nodded in the direction of the little bay they were approaching, and it was plain to see that the bladder had been drawn close in to the boggy shore. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp The new slope was worse than the first; for the grass was more boggy, and big stones here and there jarred their tender feet. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth Across through the aspens I hurried, straight as I could go; and I came out into a grassy, boggy place—a basin where water from the hills around was seeping! Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies He went back to Dundee, remounted, passed again through the sombre wood, over the boggy earth, entered the water and recrossed. The Long Roll Habitat and Range.—Sterile, sandy soil: lowlands, boggy plains, rocky slopes. Handbook of the Trees of New England Coming to another boggy bit of road, he seated himself dejectedly on the cart, and apparently would not presume to again press unwelcome assistance upon his fellow-way-farer. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories These men are called custom-house officers, and their effect is precisely similar to that of steep and boggy roads. Sophisms of the Protectionists Just then Kit came back with a hat of water from167 a boggy place. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies BUTTERWORT, the popular name of a small insectivorous plant, Pinguicula vulgaris, which grows in wet, boggy land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Young trees are graceful and attractive, but soon become thin and lose their lower branches; valued chiefly in landscape planting for covering low and boggy places where other trees do not succeed as well. Handbook of the Trees of New England The current is at all times rapid, and the banks, on account of the floods, are boggy and difficult for the approach of transport. With the British Army in The Holy Land At length the rank red and yellow grass of the boggy ground showed a patch or two of heather. The Drummer's Coat The ground proved so boggy as to be impassable, and Frederick withdrew into the wood again, in order to attack the Austrian left. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War With him to show the way the swamp became merely a hard, grueling mush through boggy lowlands. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North Early in the autumn of 1850 I completed the drainage of the upper part of a boggy valley, lying, with ramifications, at the foot of marly banks. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health It was a narrow gorge almost completely occupied by the muddy bed and boggy shores of a drying mountain creek. The Forfeit In a short time they found themselves clear of the boggy ground; and the ponies stepped out so bravely that they felt sure that they were going right. The Drummer's Coat Good instances of such homologous cures are afforded by the common Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure As the banks of the river were giving way to marshes, he had to wade through mud and water, detouring the boggy sections. The Time Traders They are in low flat ground which is muddy or even boggy in wet weather. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 It is herbaceous and perennial, and loves boggy situations. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. It is a very boggy hay-field, and in wet weather like Wednesday and Tuesday they say it is a swamp. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 The soil began to be marshy and boggy, and less favorable to progress. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth I do not say everywhere; in places the wilderness will blossom like a rose; boggy margins of lakes, fallen trunks in the forest overgrown with wild flowers, make scenes unattainable in our civilised England. Post-Prandial Philosophy Could not your senses tell you that all that rain meant danger in boggy places? The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 It was the only solid piece of earth for some distance, all around being at a lower level and boggy. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' That in front of it, through which Edward's host must pass, was wet and boggy, cut up with frequent watercourses, and ill-fitted for cavalry. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The pool below was dark and boggy and brown with peat. A Popular Schoolgirl Before them lay a grassy boggy slope curling gently upwards between higher rockier slopes. The Adventures of Akbar While the swelling often remains quiescent for some time, it tends to increase in size, to become boggy or fluctuating, and to assume the characters of a cold abscess. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. The great Fowl, or those who divide the Foot, reside by shallow Rivers sides, Brooks and Plashes of Water; and in low and boggy places, and sedgie, Marish, rotten Grounds. The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence The Lysimachia bulbifera is a hardy perennial, grows spontaneously in boggy or swampy ground, and hence requires a moist soil. The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed As though by common consent, they all stood, for a moment, perfectly still, looking across the stretch of marshland with its boggy places, its scrubby plantations, its clustering masses of tall grasses and bullrushes. The Black Box That part of the Fens is uninhabited, a boggy, marshy, ghostly spot which no one in the whole countryside will cross at night. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame With the formation of pus the skin becomes soft and boggy at several points, and eventually breaks, giving exit to a quantity of thick grumous discharge. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. Ireton: The right of the field is boggy, 58 and pitted by rabbits. Oliver Cromwell The road slanted down into a boggy hollow some six or seven miles below Fort Stanwix. The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant In a peaty or boggy material there is a condition somewhat different, but sufficiently allied to the soft clayey or soupy sands to place it under the same head in ordinary practice. Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 And look over the horses, too, and ride past that boggy place in the willows. Skyrider From Bordeaux to Blaye, the country near the river is hilly, chiefly in vines, some corn, some pasture: further out, are plains, boggy and waste. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 We fought our way through the oak wood, and out over a boggy bounds ditch into open country at last. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The Bua, like most African streams whose sources I have seen, rises in an oozing boggy spot. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Here he was in a marshy, boggy place, where an old man let him rest in his cottage, and then hid him in a cave under a heap of rushes. Young Folks' History of Rome Now in the way thither there was in the road a boggy place, which it was difficult to pass, and the bearers of the bier stood still and consulted, saying, "Which way shall we go?" Miscellanea To Etauliers, we have sometimes boggy plains, sometimes waving grounds and sandy, always poor, generally waste, in fern and furze, with some corn however, interspersed. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 It was deep in the fleshy part of the leg, a gaping wound, inflicted by one of those razor slates that hide like sentient enemies in such boggy places. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The trees which love these perpetual streams spread their roots all over the surface of the boggy banks, and make a firm surface, but at spots one may sink a yard deep. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Here it's black; there it's yellow; here it's rich loam; there it's boggy mould or sandy gravel. Science in Arcady It was just a few paces ahead, and on the edge of a boggy hollow that Guy Rivers had planted himself in waiting. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia This scrub is composed of Leichhardt, tea, fig, and cabbage-palm-trees, where we were delayed till 8.42 from having to pull one of the horses that had got into a boggy place out. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The latter was divided from it by a low, thin wall of sharp slaty stones, and on the further side there was a wide and boggy drain. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The space between each wave is usually occupied by a boggy spot or watercourse, which in some cases is filled with pools with trickling rills between. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 If it is necessary to prepare or improve the soil for them, the aim should be to render it rich and sandy, and sufficiently drained to avoid a boggy character in winter. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition These men are called custom-house officers, and their effect is precisely similar to that of rutted and boggy roads. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader This was a matter of difficulty as it was boggy. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The water was shallow and sluggish, with a soft, sticky bottom, and boggy sides. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia They were splashed, too, not the horses only, but the riders, also, as if they had ridden far, through streams or boggy ground. Come Rack! Come Rope! His place just now is filled by the jacksnipe, which flutters up from every boggy place and comes to bag in a condition anything but suggestive of short commons. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The Swiss shoe was made primarily to assist us in exploring some boggy land a short distance up the river from our island. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island At 5.20 came over rich level country with boggy watercourses from the east and encamped. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills So, keeping in my narrow way till I came to the end of the boggy valley, I then found firm ground under my feet, to my great comfort. A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel He splashed through the boggy land, paying no attention to his footsteps. Macleod of Dare Near the inlet some places seemed boggy, or covered with grass. Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region But many a poor soldier had sloped down there into the boggy canal of Avernus before him. Israel Potter Our path along the first part was between ridges thickly wooded with western-wood acacia and low flat country intersected by boggy branches of the river. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills After a long search he has returned, and informs me that it is impracticable, being too boggy for the horses. A Source Book of Australian History The cow pasture once flanked with boggy marshes has been drained and rolled until the turf is smooth as velvet. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life It is stony ground, and boggy; he cannot go one foot further that night. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Surrounding the wound and extending up the forearm for several inches there was a boggy swelling, exhibiting a sharp line of demarkation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 It rained heavily so the work of packing up, saddling, packing the horses, driving them over sloppy, boggy ground, unpacking them, and making a fire with wet wood was anything but pleasant employment. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The ground is a bit swampy in places, boggy. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel The country being generally level there are no engineering difficulties to contend with, except a boggy portion near the Elbe; the ground to be removed is chiefly sandy loam. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 The ground we had to traverse was very boggy; so much so, that two of the carriages got stuck, and their occupants had to turn out and walk. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months There is another plant, plentifully enough scattered about the boggy declivities, which grows to near the height of two feet, and not much unlike a small cabbage, when it has shot into seeds. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time As the northern bank was boggy we had to apply the whip severely to some of the horses to get them to ascend it. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills "I will go in the deep boggy places," said he. Gods and Fighting Men They are found here chiefly in boggy ground. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 There was a luxurious and dank growth of trees, with a tangle of underwood and boggy soil beneath them. The Doctor's Dilemma Two other small plants were found near the brooks and boggy places, which were eaten as sallad; the one almost like garden cresses, and very fiery, and the other very mild. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time I tried to cross the Gregory at the junction of this creek, but the banks are so boggy I had to return by the way I went. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills Then a few boggy fields ran back into the mist that hung about the hills. Carmen's Messenger The horse bounded forwards too quickly to sink in the boggy ground. Westways So we turned, and then a heron rose from a boggy stream below us, and that was a quarry not to be let go. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet The hounds stormed on through the hills, running hard across the frequent boggy tracts, more slowly, and with searchings, over the intervening humps of rock and furze. Mount Music It has a broad hard bed with only a boggy spot at the western bank. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills He durst not look about, but heard the man's heavy boots splash in the boggy grass, until the fellow suddenly stopped. Carmen's Messenger I wish there were no such fearsome, boggy things. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 I suppose if any old brave was knocking about and saw my tracks in a boggy spot, he'd think it was a Kickapoo who had passed that way—not Dol Farrar of Manchester, England. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods The demesne of Mount Music lay along its banks; in woods often, more often in pastures; with boggy places ringed with willows, lovely, in their seasons, with yellow flags, and meadowsweet, kingcups, ragwort and loosestrife. Mount Music It led out of the basin, through burned and boggy ground and down upon the forest slope, thence to the grassy and aspened uplands. The Mysterious Rider Except for this, the moor was silent and desolate, but Foster felt a strange poignant elation as he stumbled among the ruts and splashed across boggy grass. Carmen's Messenger The house, left by its owners, is in that low, or rather boggy situation, suitable to the fashion of those times. An History of Birmingham (1783) In rather less than twenty minutes the four were scanning with wide eyes certain fresh foot-marks, plainly printed on a patch of soft oozing clay, midway on the boggy tract. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Half the night did George search for him, and was at last rewarded by finding the young fellow lying wounded and helpless on the boggy ground. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne There are many marshy and boggy places, covered in summer with a dense growth of reeds. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life As he stopped he saw the boggy soil fly up and the lamps sink towards the ground. Carmen's Messenger Formerly it settled in spots and made boggy land. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. He tramped on, and in half an hour they came to the water, a deep, clear, slow stream, fringed with scrub willows, covered with lily-pads, and following the middle of a broad, boggy flat. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned This work of crossing was likely to be a long and tedious, not to say a difficult bit of business, the intervening ground being very boggy. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne After blundering through marshy and boggy hillocks for miles, I found myself at last in the locality indicated to me. Aylwin It’s called a butterwort, and it always grows in boggy places; I wouldn’t advise you to go after one again without asking father first.” Milly and Olly In a half-hour he had pushed through a tangled undergrowth covering a boggy soil and entered upon firm and more open ground. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians There are thousands of square miles so boggy, so swampy, so dark, gloomy and mosquito-ridden that all men fear them and avoid them, and in them rubber culture must be impossible. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation At ten and a quarter miles crossed rivulet running to south; at ten and three-quarter miles examined boggy swamp with plenty of water, drainage to south. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia The ancients simply adopted the line of least resistance by avoiding hills, boggy places, and the deep parts of streams, choosing the shallow fordable spots for crossing. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Then the boys struck a hit of boggy ground, in which they sank over their knees at every step. Dick in the Everglades The slower stream had a chance to deposit its silt, and if the high water had been very quiet, we could expect to find it soft, or boggy. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico The boggy ground about Guayaquil was full of the largest toads I ever saw, some being as big as an English two-penny loaf. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. The complaint was that by turning the water of the "New River" into them the said Oliver had made the road from Hampton Wick boggy and unsafe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 After passing over four miles of soft boggy ground we came to a small running stream, the surface beyond it rising to a somewhat steep ascent. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Ned shot another buck, this time in a very boggy swamp. Dick in the Everglades |
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