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  • Volo Bog is home to the largest known nursery colony of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in Illinois.

    Little brown bats M-mv 2005

  • For example, the word Bog 'God' meaning the Most High, in the Christian sense, he always writes with a capital letter, but in a pagan or heretical sense with a small one.

    languagehat.com: DOSTOEVSKY AND RUSSIAN PUNCTUATION. 2005

  • Their writings of less concern (as Letters, Almanacks, &c.) were engraven upon Wood: And because Beech was most plentiful in Denmark, (tho Firr and Oak be so in Norway and Sweden) and most commonly employ'd in these Services, form the word Bog (which in their Language is the Name of that sort of Wood) they and all other Northern Nations have the Name of Book.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • Also, Wolfowitz signed a deal to make a tell-all confessional documentary in 2027 with director Errol Morris to be entitled The Bog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Paul D.

    Following once again in the footsteps of Robert S. McNamara Steve Sailer 2005

  • Also, Wolfowitz signed a deal to make a tell-all confessional documentary in 2027 with director Errol Morris to be entitled The Bog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Paul D.

    Archive 2005-03-13 Steve Sailer 2005

  • The Bog was a bigger farm in thae days than noo, but I daursay it has the new steadin 'yet.

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • The dreary expanse called the Bog of Allen, which occupies a tableland in the centre of the island, stretches away for miles -- flat, sad-coloured, and monotonous, fissured in every direction by channels of dark-tinted water, in which the very fish take the same sad colour.

    Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

  • Together they returned to Donegal by bus, where Patsy owns the so-called Bog Hotel in the Bluestack Mountains near Inver.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • The school will also rent the Wilkes-Barre field known as The Bog for the boys 'home baseball field at a cost not to exceed $1,500.

    Times Leader News 2010

  • That he had left lord Dundee in a retreat, at a place called Bog of Geith, in a ftrong country of the North, with fix thoufand infantry and two hundred cavalry.

    Original papers, containing the secret history of Great Britain from the Restoration, to the accession of the House of Hannover : to which are prefixed extracts from the life of James II as written by himself 1775

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