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  • Yeah, slash existing programs to help Americans, and sink any new legislation (health care reform) to help Americans, but keep sending trillions of dollars down middle eastern bogholes.

    CNN Exclusive: Obama weighs ordering new debt commission 2009

  • Our first twenty-one miles to Twin Lakes, at the best speed, with good horses, occupied eight hours, three of which, in the middle of the night, were passed under deluging rain accompanied by thunder and lightning of the most appalling grandeur, thumping in the shelterless wagon over stumps and bogholes through the dreary woods.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

  • All day we sprawled over roots, rocks, and logs, plunging into bogholes and slopping along in the running water, which in places had turned the trail into an aqueduct.

    The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

  • The first weeks and months of their new adversity passed slowly and heavily for the transplanted household, more especially for Andy and his wife, who had outgrown a love of paddling in bogholes, and had acquired

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • Forgetting all his doubts as to bogholes and morasses, he grasped his own pole, and sprang from tussock to tussock, till he had reached the bank of the ditch or water-course in which the unfortunate sportsman was floundering.

    The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Forgetting all his doubts as to bogholes and morasses, he grasped his own pole, and sprang from tussock to tussock, till he had reached the bank of the ditch or water - course in which the unfortunate sportsman was floundering.

    The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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