What is "boggy"

Usage examples of "boggy".

The rain still fell, and the ground was boggy, but by digging close to the tough roots of the ferns she was able to construct a satisfactory burrow.

Men had been fighting on that high boggy moor for as many years as Soldier had been in Guthrum.

Generally he lets Stewart continue to run the squad and helps Boggy with training.

The English completed their crossing and set off north, with the boggy ground to the east.

To starboard and port, he could see boggy land-masses, misshapen blobs of earth striped with rivulets.

The Corporal had managed to pull up Billy, but the two ponies had shot past him, both the children crying out with delight, and while galloping on to catch them Billy had come down in a boggy place, and the corporal supposed that he himself must have been a bit stunned, for when he got up he found that he had let go of his rein and that Billy and everybody else had disappeared.

At length the rank red and yellow grass of the boggy ground showed a patch or two of heather.

He could see the second body, half submerged in slime and dark brackish water, trapped and held by the boggy earth.

It had rained heavily that morning, and the roads were boggy with mud.

I could see better then, and if I did by mischance step into a boggy patch I could hold the reins and let Sultana pull me out.

Good instances of such homologous cures are afforded by the common Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes.

Beneath the spaceplane the sea was stained with mud, a grubby brown blemish extending for seventy to eighty kilometres out from the boggy shore.

She felt the pile of boggy vegetation shift as though it were moving on a great wagon.

The halfling, with the luck endemic to her race, had skidded to a stop in a particularly soft, boggy area.

They trudged across the boggy surface and arrived at the door to find a note hanging like a flapping tongue from the letter-box.