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Example sentences for "bogland"

Lexicographically close words:
boggled; boggy; boght; bogie; bogies; bogles; bogs; bogus; bogy; boid
  1. Beyond the bogland country outside Millstreet is the village of Cullen, where tradition says no smith has been known to thrive.

  2. The bogland from Fethard to Thurles is uninteresting; the intermediate stations are Farranalleen, Laffan's Bridge, and Horse and Jockey, at which collieries are still being worked.

  3. The invisible sun was low when Judy came to a place where the road forks, sending one branch to creep across the level bogland towards Sallinbeg, and one to climb up among the first tilted slopes of the mountains.

  4. It found shelter for the night under the ley of a tall hayrick near Santry, thus ending the first stage of Mad Bell's tramp home to the wide brown bogland of Lisconnel.

  5. In those times the district around our bogland was more thickly inhabited than it is at present, and the blacksmith's jobs were proportionately plentier.

  6. The smell of spring was in the air, and filmy silvery mist had begun to float off the dark bogland in vanishing wreaths, soft and dim as the frail sloe-blossom, already stolen out over the writhen black branches up on the ridge.

  7. Most likely it is the only copy of "O'Beirne on Conic Sections" existing in Ireland; and who would expect to find it lodged in a smoke-stained cabin on the wild bogland between Duffclane and Lisconnel?

  8. And if we limit our inquiries, and ask what was the interval of time between the newest bed of gravel near Cambridge, and the oldest bed of bogland or silt in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, we are utterly at a loss for a definite answer.

  9. Our jarvey, however, maintained that there was "better land among the stones than any bogland could be.

  10. We soon passed from the bogland into a wilderness of granite.

  11. Here and there the bogland showed a darker tint, and at his feet, cupped out in the smooth greystone, lay a sheet of water.

  12. And as he straightened himself up, of a sudden it seemed to the man that the mountains and the moors, the tarn and the bogland approved of the change in him, and, finding him worthy, told him their message.

  13. The pond at the man's feet glinted a turquoise blue; the bogland shone silver in the sunlight.

  14. A boreen in bogland is not a lonely place to the Irish peasant if he have neighbors of long standing.

  15. The next was the Turn in a bogland of rushes; There the springs of still water were trampled to slushes; The peewits lamented, flapping down, flagging far, The riders dared deathwards each trusting his star.

  16. The ploughland will be bogland certainly, After this rain.

  17. The road wound in and out a good deal, skirting bogland or massive boulders.

  18. From Moor and Heath and Bogland came the sound of innumerable bird-throats singing the great and wonderful hymn of praise, hosanna to awakening Nature.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bogland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.