A crowd sprung full grown out of the bog of the morning.

For as I scratched and stumbled among the tussocks, 'larding the lean earth as I stalked along,' my kind guide put into my hand, with something of an air of triumph, a little plant, which wasthere was no denying itnone other than the long-leaved Sundew, {260a} with its clammy-haired paws full of dead flies, just as they would have been in any bog in Devonshire or in Hampshire, in Wales or in Scotland.

The main difficulty encountered was the mud in the approaches to the town, the infantry plunging deep into the bog at every step.

From the sloping side of a hummock her foot slipped and she slid into the icy bog to her knees.

Into this Serbonian bog between them and us we let them flounder, instead of building out into their domain great and noble piers and wharves, upon which they can land securely and come among us.

"Not so, in soothin very sooth," she gasped 'twixt sobs of terror, "nought but a poor maid am Iand the man thrice sought me out and would have shamed me but that I escaped, for that I am very swift of foot" "She lured me into the bog with devil-fires!" cried Gurth.

That took me along a rough ridge of mountain pitted with peat-bogs into which I often stumbled.

And walk into the bog beneath your feet.

"With the exception of that trick, and his shyness, there was little of the original boy Bog about him, "Mr. Wilkeson," said he, giving his cap a twirl, "I am very sorry to see you here; because, I may say, I know you are innocent.

At that distance, she looked to Bog like a perfectly respectable woman, with a sharp eye to business.

I mean the lovely Gladiolus, which grows abundantly under the ferns near Lyndhurst, certainly wild, but it does not approach England elsewhere nearer than the Loire and the Rhine; and next, that delicate orchid, the Spiranthes aestivalis, which is known only in a bog near Lyndhurst and in the Channel Islands, while on the Continent it extends from Southern Europe all through France.

Ay, the bog behind the meadow is well drained by this, and we might put the plough over it.

Our boat floated along through the flags, the horses on a tow-path just wide enough to enable the teams to pass, with bog on one side and canal on the other, water birds whistling and calling, frogs croaking, and water-lilies dotting every open pool.

My Lord of Castlewood was wounded at the battle of the Boyne, flying from which field he lay for a while concealed in a marsh, and more from cold and fever caught in the bogs than from the steel of the enemy in the battle, died.

There was nothing behind them but a dour waste, a bog through which they had driven themselves with a lash of resolution.

The whole place'll be bog before long, and we'll be all turned into frogs, and have nothing to do but croak.

So cranberries grew to be institutions in the Pines, and all the bogs for miles around the site of the first experiment were hired by sanguine farmers.