It was Isak's old idea to drain the bogs at Storborg and till the land there properly; the bit of a store was only to be an extra, a convenience, to save folk going all the way down to the village for a reel of thread.

So with a dyspeptic self-consciousness he rejected the pork, picked off the periphery of the bread near the crust, cautiously avoiding the dough-bogs in the middle; but then he revenged himself by falling furiously upon the aquatic potatoes, out of which most of the nutriment had been soaked.

Had you waded, as we did, through those hideous bogs, which a poor Irishman, whose bones we left on the way, declared, 'bate all the bogs of Ireland!'

When the early sun bronzed the bog, and streaked the dark pool below with gold, Paddy and his father began to feed the dried wavy strands of kelp between the hungry brown furrow lips.

It consists of a large undulating plain in the centre, containing extensive bogs, several large loughsNeagh, the Erne, Allen, Derg, drained by the rivers Shannon, Barrow, Liffey, and Boyne, and surrounded on almost all sides by maritime highlands, of which those on the SW., NW., and E. are the highest.

Leaving modern Vilcabamba, we crossed the flat, marshy bottom of an old glaciated valley, in which one of our mules got thoroughly mired while searching for the succulent grasses which cover the treacherous bog.

I took him to my room, and placed him in a water-tight box, in which I fashioned an artificial bog, in the hope that he would confirm my testimony by his piping.

Angry foremen declared one could not fill up the bog, and Lister knew the heads of the construction office grumbled about the delay.

At the end of this, however, I found swamp the second, and out of this having been helped by a grinning facetious personage, most appropriately named Pun, I returned home in dudgeon, in spite of what dear Miss M calls the 'moral suitability' of finding a foul bog at the end of every charming wood path or forest ride in this region.

Whether it be a regulation of rates and prices, of hours of labor, of height of buildings, of municipal distribution of charity, of flooding a cranberry bog, or of prescribing to sleeping-car porters duties regarding the lowering of upper berths,in questions great and small, the courts vote upon the reasonableness of the use of the Police Power, like any old-fashioned town meeting.

In some instances a series of small bogs or meadows rise above one another on a hillside, which are gradually merged into one another, forming sloping bogs, or meadows, which make striking features of Sequoia woods, and since all the trees that have fallen into them have been preserved, they contain records of the generations that have passed since they began to form.

As the gong pealed its the-game's-closed-till-another-day, the myriad of tortured souls that are supposed to haunt the treacherous bogs and quicksands of the great Exchange, where lie their earthly hopes, must have prayed with renewed earnestness for its destruction before the morrow.

They caught sight of him and fired a pistol or two, but he knew the bog too well, and they could not follow him.' 'And what will be done to your prisoner?'

It becomes unbearable, but where is this place you speak ofin some other bog?" I pointed to the left of the trees where Mademoiselle was standing.

As a last resource, he purchased of the owner of the Big House a cranberry-bog,that is to say, one of the many marshy spots which are interspersed in the forest,for which he paid five dollars the acre.

The orchis binds her feather on For her old lover, Don the Sun, Revisiting the bog!

The Russians shelled the bog and the single road crossing it.

So soon as each London furlough was expired, he returned to Ireland, jaded and dispirited, and there took delight in nursing his melancholy; in pining for the amusements of the metropolis; in shunning and sneering at the society around him; and in abusing his native bogs and his fellow-countrymen in verse.

Better to strike a bog than to fall into those trees, where the lot of us might be killed.