The ground was boggy under foot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The watering-place was boggy but we could find no better. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Arbuckle, where it ran through a low region called "boggy bottom.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Nile owing to the overflow having turned the margin into boggy land. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Terrain: rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Its sources are boggy streams having little or no clearly-defined course. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Access to the Nile was very difficult, for overflowed, boggy land interposed. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
At 5.20 came over rich level country with boggy watercourses from the east and encamped. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Vipers frequent those turfy boggy grounds, and I have known several turf-cutters bitten by them. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
After the enclosure they will despoil a boggy place that is famous for orchises at Royce Wood end. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Carpentaria on 28th March, but they could not get a view of the open ocean because of boggy ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Estonia the mainland terrain is flat, boggy, and partly wooded; offshore lie more than 1,500 islands. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
She skirted round other patches of marsh grass and black boggy places only to find it too wide again. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Jendrek ran towards him, slipped on the boggy hillside, scrambled up and shouted in terror: 'Daddy. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
In the wood and near the stream the ground was low and boggy, impassable for wagons except on a causeway. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Rivers sides, Brooks and Plashes of Water; and in low and boggy places, and sedgie, Marish, rotten Grounds. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
Geography - note: the mainland terrain is flat, boggy, and partly wooded; offshore lie more than 1,500 islands. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The shores for half a mile back from the water are nothing but boggy marsh, with here and there a wooded island. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
On his right the land was boggy and overgrown with brushwood, while on his left it was somewhat higher and wooded. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Well, we ascended -- the soil boggy -- and at last reached the height, which is 573 toises above the level of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
As the banks of the river were giving way to marshes, he had to wade through mud and water, detouring the boggy sections. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
The dust smelled like iron, a little like blood, and finally we sat ourselves on some snags at the edge of the boggy lake. From Wordnik.com. [Lalla, Chuckachucka] Reference
This plant grows only in peat soils; it is abundant in the boggy moors of Somersetshire; it has a powerful and fragrant smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
The current is at all times rapid, and the banks, on account of the floods, are boggy and difficult for the approach of transport. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
His left, resting on the river, and his center were covered by a small stream, one of its affluents, boggy and of difficult passage. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
He went awkwardly off the customary track so that he might reach the shealing the quicker by a short cut that led through boggy grass. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
This morning, when we came to a nasty boggy place, with several small water cuts running through it, I obeyed the imp with reluctance. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
Terrain: rocky, hilly, mountainous with some boggy, undulating plains lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Usborne 705 m. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Colonel Hayes was the first to plunge in; but his horse, after frantic struggling, mired down hopelessly in the middle of the boggy stream. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
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