But what are you going to do about it?" "Report we had two cars bogged and state the cost of labor.

Mr. Oswell, in trying to cross the river, got his horse bogged in the swampy bank.

What the Germans call 'real politics', that is to say, politics which treat disinterested motives as negligible, have led them into a morass and have bogged them there.

I can see them mired and bogged, and the house a mile ahead of them.

And all the ground under my heeles quak't like a Bogge. King.

Morning will see the country roads all choked with the conveyances of bogged up senators!

This at first seemed firm; but, after half-a-mile, the hard crust of salt and gypsum, which formed the surface, gave way and three of the horses were bogged almost at the same time.

Frequent heavy showers, which rendered the ground so soft that the horses cannot be hobbled without danger of their getting bogged, and it is scarcely possible to ride after them to herd them.

At 6.15 a.m. steered north 150 degrees east over the level country which extends along the east side of Jasper Range; the soil is stony, but well grassed, and the fine weather had allowed the surface to become firm, so that the horses were not often bogged.

For goodness sake, how long will we be bogged down.

Our business was to give the French a long chase in the wrong direction, and those bogged autos weren't ideal for the purpose.

Acting on Tom's advice everything that might testify to their identity was also removed, lest the bogged plane be accidentally discovered and betray them.

As they progressed slowly down the creek, one of the two camels became bogged, and had to be shot where it lay.

On striking again to the east, they encountered an extensive salt lake, and in attempting to cross an arm of this marsh, their horses were bogged, and extricated only after great labour.

On he struggles through that wild, and too luxuriant cover; now brought up by a "lawyer," now stumbling over a root, now bogged in a green spring, now flushing a stray covey of birds of Paradise, now a sphinx, chimaera, strix, lamia, fire-drake, flying-donkey, two-headed eagle (Austrian, as will appear shortly), or other portent only to be seen now-a-days in the recesses of that enchanted forest, the convolutions of a poet's brain.

" I remember his riding upon a terribly high spirited horse, who had the perilous fancy of leaping every drain, rivulet, and ditch that came in our way; the consequence was, that he was everlastingly bogging himself, while sometimes his rider kept his seat despite of his plunging, and at other times he was obliged to extricate himself the best way he could.

We got bogged again and again, and, do what we would, the sledge dragged like lead.

The whole of the lower valley is filled with snow from the recent storm, and if we had not had ski we should be hopelessly bogged.

The sledges get bogged every now and again, sinking to the crossbars.

The sluice-gates were opened and flooded the surrounding fields, so that the enemy's artillery was bogged and could not move.

" I marveled that the Gowdy carriage still was astern of me after all this time; and speculated as to whether there was not some other road between Dyersville and Independence, by which they had passed me; but a few miles east of Independence they came up behind me as I lay bogged down in a slew, and drove by on the green tough sod by the roadside.

I came" and then I stopped, bogged down.

Finally, I bogged down, and quit.

Nature seemed against the robbers, for as they entered the coulee their horses bogged down in a springy rivulet, and they were so hard pressed that they hastily dismounted, and sought shelter in some shrubbery that grew about.

"She sure is bogged down a-plenty," he observed, grinning sympathetically.