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  • But now on the move are only the ghosts risen from the boghole, which leave no trace.

    Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009

  • But now on the move are only the ghosts risen from the boghole, which leave no trace.

    19.12 David McDuff 2009

  • The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • Villains exist in very high places, as well as in the boghole.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Villains exist in very high places, as well as in the boghole.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Though this unsightly boghole has been gradually filled in, it still forms a blot on the landscape which might, nevertheless, with a little effort and comparatively small expense, be transformed into a charming open air theater.

    The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw

  • The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

  • Tie the bag around his head, and if the peelers come, we'll put him head-first in the boghole is beyond the ditch.

    The Tinker's Wedding 1911

  • [Page 22] would be too good for him; that he would plunge him up to the throat in a boghole, and leave him for the crows to pick his eyes out.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

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