It was full of soft, boggy places and he knew therefore that that man had some money in his poke and desired to betake himself where no horse could follow.
Frequently he ran into brush, or struck the boggy shore, and occasionally Nada would hold lighted matches while he extricated the canoe from tree-tops and driftwood that impeded the way.
The pool below was dark and boggy and brown with peat.
I had jogged a mile or so when I saw a hound, a few fields away to my right, poking along on what appeared to be a line; he flopped into a boggy ditch, and scrambled from it on to a fence.
As I made my way downwards over the knife-edged ridges of rock and along their intervening boggy furrows, I should myself have been grateful for the guidance of the cat.
This set Leslie in motion; he hastily sent forward his forces, and the vanguards came to skirmishing, but could not engage in complete battle on account of the boggy ground between them.
The whole country round was a boggy and dreary waste, and therefore, having scarcely an inhabitant, was admirably adapted to the smuggling in of French goods and French plots.
Gordon had seen her on the hillside, probably long before she saw him, had been coming to her in as straight a line as the ground would permit, and at length was out of the boggy level, and ascending the slope of the hillfoot to where she sat.
Its favourite summer resorts in England are lakes which are lined with rushes, boggy places on the moors, and sedgy rivers.
At other seasons, it ceases to be gregarious, and repairs to swamps and boggy morasses, where in spring it builds a rude nest of reeds and rushes on a bank or stump of a tree, and lays two eggs.
It received its name of Wood Sandpiper from having been observed occasionally to resort to boggy swamps of birch and alder, and has been seen even to perch on a tree.
He is very fond of boggy ground, and because of these big feet and the fact that the hoofs spread when he steps, he can walk safely where others would sink in.
In summer he moves to the open, boggy ground around shallow lakes where moss covers the ground, and on this he lives.
At the river we struck some boggy ground and floundered around considerable, but we got through.
Woodlands, through which small streams meander lazily, inviting swarms of insects to their boggy shores, make ideal hunting grounds for the Acadian flycatcher.
To indulge in this aerial chase with success, these warblers select for their home and hunting ground some low woodland growth where a sluggish stream attracts myriads of insects to the boggy neighborhood.
Of all scents commend me for this awakening quality to theboggy ones.
She tore the monstrous shaft of a cart out of a place that with it was impossible, and without it was a boggy scramble, and as we began to gallop again, I began to think there was a good deal to be said in favour of the New Woman.
The latter was divided from it by a low, thin wall of sharp slaty stones, and on the further side there was a wide and boggy drain.
It was deep in the fleshy part of the leg, a gaping wound, inflicted by one of those razor slates that hide like sentient enemies in such boggy places.
We fought our way through the oak wood, and out over a boggy bounds ditch into open country at last.
The hunt and all that appertained to it had sunk out of sight over a rugged hillside, and she had nothing by which to steer her course save the hoof-marks in the occasional black and boggy intervals between the heathery knolls.
A river crossed our course, with boggy banks pitted deep with the hoof-marks of our forerunners; I suggested it to the Quaker, and discovered that Nature had not in vain endued him with the hindquarters of the hippopotamus.
The grey horse rose out of the boggy stuff with all the impetus that pace and temper could give, but it was not enough.
A stone wall, a rough patch of heather, a boggy field, dinted deep and black with hoof marks, and the stern chase was at an end.
If the traveller reaches this point without being engulfed in the boggy ground which fringes the llyn he will now continue in the same general direction as the wall, and soon sees the gully just before him.
When the direction of the wall changes you make a compromise midway between the old and the new, and very soon come on to a line of cairns which continues right on to the boggy tableland above.
Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Defn: One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.
Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places.
Any kind of sedge (Carex) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place.
Being done, he turned his attention to a cow which had become deeply involved in a boggy water-hole.
She skirted round other patches of marsh grass and black boggy places only to find it too wide again.
There were two burns to ford, some curious kind of grips to jump, and several boggy places to circumnavigate.
You avoid a boggy gap, which the two riders ahead of you are making for, and catch hold of your horse for a clean "stake-and-bound.
The boggy ground yielded to the foot more readily than ever, and Bolko trod it with a faltering step.
The stony, brown, and barren plain, the gloomy confines of the wood, the vapours of the boggy soil, united to create an earthly paradise.
So many seals impressed in the soft boggy soil; all leading off yonder in a fresh direction after evidently making a halt here.
I was hanging on to a branch and trying to keep up because I was sinking into the boggy shore, when my two mates here come pulling up stream and picked me up.
The creek was deep and the banks boggy and made an impassable ditch in Walker's front.
We tried to take a short cut across country through some rice-fields, but our ponies sank in theboggy ground, and we had to retrace our way to the path.
