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- noun Plural form of
bogland .
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Examples
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During the cutting season we have had helicopters as well as planes, and we have had officials in vans scouting across the boglands to stop us doing what our ancestors did for centuries.
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During the cutting season we have had helicopters as well as planes, and we have had officials in vans scouting across the boglands to stop us doing what our ancestors did for centuries.
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Whether defining aspirations to love in damp boglands or filial awkwardness in the Catholic merchant classes, he charts the general emotional poverty of an island people whose national color just might be the green of envy.
Five Best Frank Delaney 2010
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Whether defining aspirations to love in damp boglands or filial awkwardness in the Catholic merchant classes, he charts the general emotional poverty of an island people whose national color just might be the green of envy.
Five Best Frank Delaney 2010
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And most of all there was the red-haired girl, the cailín rua, that nameless, decapitated creature from the Irish boglands who had set everything back in motion.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Whether defining aspirations to love in damp boglands or filial awkwardness in the Catholic merchant classes, he charts the general emotional poverty of an island people whose national color just might be the green of envy.
Five Best Frank Delaney 2010
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And most of all there was the red-haired girl, the cailín rua, that nameless, decapitated creature from the Irish boglands who had set everything back in motion.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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The creature from the boglands now had in its paw a long bush knife.
Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968
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The rugged coastland of Kerry whose waters are still virgin territory for the fisherman, the soft pasture lands of Meath, the wilderness of Connemara "where the boglands sweep to mountains and mountains tumble down among rocks into a welter of foaming sea", the gentle sweeps of the Glens of Antrm, the unsurpassable beauty of the Lakes of Killarney.
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Had they come clear across the swamp, Dane wondered dully, or was this only a large island in the midst of the stinking boglands?
Voodoo Planet Andre Norton 1958
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