Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation

Usage examples of bog.

Muirhead on Presbytery matters which would save him a journey to Kirk Aller, when he was busy with the bog hay.

The police and fire department rushed to the snow-covered hill and bogged down on the mushy dirt road.

It was sometimes traded through secret channels to humans under the name of boggle, an elvish joke signifying both the bog from which the liquid originally came, and from the state of mind it readily produced in the humans.

On either side rose the thatched cabins of the peasantry, the peat smoke curling from the chimneys, the little boreens running through the bushes, the brown Irish bogs, the heather in blossom, the turf stacks, the laughing colleens.

He knew how the forms of life branched out from willowherb to bog orchid, waxwing to grebe, elm to paulownia, cichlid to sea-squirt.

After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.

In the bogs ah dae a long pish, huvin tae bend ma cock really sair soas ah dinnae pish oan the flair which smells ay sick n disinfectant.

The shelve of the beach saved the cave from being flooded and the beetling of the cliff kept it dry and within a couple of feet of the entrance but it could not keep out the rain smell, the raw smell of Kerguelen carried from inland, the smell of bog patches and new washed dolerite and bitter vegetation, keen, like the smell of the Stone Age.

Emily led the way, trotting briskly and chattering about herb gardens and bog gardens and espaliered fruit trees.

Having been always fond of shooting, I took a firelock and went in pursuit of wild ducks, which abounded throughout the bog.

Once freed from the first bog, it became stuck thrice more before the tiny village of Gaur came into view.

All those eyes looking at him: Hake and Jak and Strom like vultures watching a sheep caught in a bog, Gode waiting like something even worse.

Commanding officers bogged down in red tape, giving precedence to protocol .

When the path leads through a bog or a stretch of blackened water see Miss Amelia bend down to let Cousin Lymon scramble on her back -- and see her wading forward with the hunchback settled on her shoulders, clinging to her ears or to her broad forehead.

While others rode the kite skies with whistle-drumming membrances, or periscoped up with long boaconstrictor necks from smoking bogs, or grasped at the teeming sky as they sank to vanish in tombs of black tar, lost in the billion years that had summoned the old man awake.