The front of the position was protected by a morass--a peat moss, or turf bog; and it was further strengthened by a stockade, consisting of long stakes firmly driven into the ground and connected securely by ropes.
The Earl Marshal rode straight ahead, ignorant of the peatbog in front; but, after a little embarrassment, he led his men round the west side, and dashed upon the Scots right.
A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire.
A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
Its remains have been found beneath the peatof swamps in Ireland and England.
In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Scotland, I think it probable that a Scotchman on Dartmoor might now and then so far forget himself as to call peat or turf by a name which would certainly not be understood by an aboriginal Devonian.
The local name of the peat or other turf cut for fuel is vaggs, and this has perhaps been confounded in the recollection of K.
Out of the black mass of down-fallen peat there came a strange, pleading voice.
But there was a whiff of real peat smoke somewhere in the air, and Ralph Peden, before he returned to his book, was aware of the murmur of voices.
Still, Greatorix Castle was a notable place, high set on its hill, shires and towns beneath, the blue breath of peat reek blowing athwart the plain beneath and rising like an incense about.
His frequent staggerings, also, on the verge of dark peat holes, caused his companion many a shock of alarm and many a start forward to prevent a catastrophe, before they gained the high road.
The large open fireplace contained a peat fire on the hearth, over which hung a bubbling pot.
At sight of Pete, Grannie made way, and he pushed through to the kitchen, where he seated himself in a seat in the fireplace just in front of the peat closet, and under the fish hanging to smoke.
And Jan would begin, keeping his eyes on the fire, as if the curling smoke and the blazing peat aided his recollections.
Place it in the hole prepared with a thin layer of peat (preferably burnt or previously strongly heated to kill all insects, etc.
One day, coming home from his work at the peat bog, he found the elders snuffling and sighing over their afternoon meal.
Experiments conducted in the same way with peat have yielded a filtrate almost identical in appearance to the sawdust filtrate, inoffensive on evaporation and not putrescible.
Again, in country houses a urinal for gentlemen placed in some accessible but secluded spot, and formed of a basket or barrel of convenient height, filled with peat or sawdust, will be found both economical and inoffensive.
Peat is formed in ways analogous to that of coal, and the so-called mineral oils are certainly the products of organic matter which has been silted up.
My experiments further show that when sawdust or peathas been used as a top-dressing good crops have followed, whether on grass or garden ground.
The filtrates from peat and sawdust were always of higher specific gravity than the urine added.
One day in a peat moss litter works some distance from Kiel a worker met with a serious injury.
They took a quantity of the article which they manufactured, peat moss litter, and laying it on the wounds tied bandages over it.
When I came to my senses, I was lying in a peat bog one hundred and twenty miles from the Black Forest, in which I had celebrated my marriage the night before with the beautiful Lilith.
A compost consisting of two parts good substantial peat and one of loam, together with some silver sand, suits it admirably.
A mixture of turfy loam and sandy peat is best, but when not available, leaf mold or a rich mellow soil mixed with silver sand will do.
They do best in a rich soil, with a little peat and sand; also an abundance of water.
They grow best in loam and peat equal quantities, with a little sand.
The old woman is seated on a low stool beside the peat fire in the centre of the floor.
When Hugh Ritson reached the cottage, all was dark about the house save for the red glow from the peat fire which came out into the open porch.
Nay, lass, you're as thrang as an auld peat wife, I's warn.
There he was in the peat loft when I went for the peats, and he had it all as fine as clerk after passon.
Poor Ole Anderson keeps his peat moor and his pasture land, but rich Morten Bruus is angry at me because of it.
The peat bog won't beggar me, and the cattle at Ingvorstrup have all the hay they can eat.
Lignite or brown coal is of intermediate character between peat and coal proper.
The lighter and more spongy varieties of peatwhen air-dried are exceedingly inflammable, firing at a temperature of 200 deg.
Grateful odours of food and drink and tobacco hung in the air, though tar and homespun and the far-carried fragrance of peat fought stoutly for the mastery.
The smoke blew back, and as he sniffed its old homely fragrance he seemed to feel the smell of peat and heather, of drenched homespun in the snowy bogs, and the glory of a bright wood fire and the moorland cottage.
Higher up in the peat one finds remains of Scotch Fir, showing that at that time regular forests of Scotch Fir existed, e.
Every one who has been on peat-mosses and moors probably knows its little reddish rosettes of small rounded or spoon-shaped leaves lying on bare peat or wet mossy ground.
They cover the hills, and it looks exactly as if some giant had plastered all those hills with a layer of six to ten feet of black peat from 1250 feet upwards.
One of the curious facts about peat is that though a peat-moss is one of the worst natural soils, yet broken-up and dried peat is excellent for Rhododendrons, for Orchids in stoves and greenhouses, and a great many other plants.
We have in this country plenty of peat quite good for this purpose, but labour is too expensive for our home-grown peat to compete with the produce of Dutch moors.
Trunks of Scotch Fir have even been found in peat at 2400 feet in Yorkshire, and at heights in Scotland which are above all the present plantations.
Next follow remains of the Birch and Aspen, which would be growing, as they do in places to-day, on mossy soil where the peat was still thin.
Unfortunately, though all these things can be produced out of peat-fibre, it has never paid to manufacture them, and there are very few of the British peat-mosses nowadays where peat is even cut for fuel.
In the case of the peat and coalfields, an animal of sufficient intelligence to utilize them has already been produced, and now they are used by man as fuel.
It may be gathered together in such quantities that the carpet of living peat above it bursts, and a deluge of peaty water overflows the surrounding country, destroying and spoiling everything that it encounters.
There is one strange peculiarity of peat which renders it a most useful substance to antiquarians.
In Denmark the uppermost layers of the peat contain remains of Beech trees.
The peat and furze were pretty soon left behind; we were again in the wooded scenery that I enjoyed so much, so entirely natural and pretty, and so little disturbed by traffic of any kind.
Easy served with a bed, that lad be; six foot o’ dry peat or heath, or a nook in a dry ditch.
He planted these in peat soil, in one-inch pots, and then plunged the pots into a moderate heat.
There is nothing better than one portion of stable manure, and three of turf, or leaf-mould, all well decomposed, and mixed with a little pure peat earth.
For this purpose, small pots can be used, filled with equal parts of mould and sand, or peat and sand.
After being dried a few days in the shade, they should be placed just beneath the surface, in pots filled with fine sand, or peat earth, where they can be kept until wanted for planting in the spring.
So things stood when Mary Cobley broke her sad tale to her son, while he sat and sucked his pipe and listened on a winter evening, with the wind puffing the peat smoke from the fire into the room off and again.
He was so black as if he'd been soaked in a peat bog--black hair, black eyes, black moustache and black beard.
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