peat-bogs

Two complexes of marshes, peat-bogs and fens – the Polesie region on the border between Belarus and Ukraine, and the Biebrza valley in the NE Poland – are now among the largest remaining tracts of semi-natural wetlands in Europe.

Central European mixed forests 2008

Siberian peat-bogs to melt and burp out their massive store of methane into the atmosphere.

[silences] THE INDEPENDENT UK'S HARSH VIEW OF G8 2007

Recall the words of Comrade Trotsky: "During the first years after the revolution, battles were going on all over the country, woods and peat-bogs were burning, the fields were bare, and the ducks stopped flying."

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Recall the words of Comrade Trotsky: "During the first years after the revolution, battles were going on all over the country, woods and peat-bogs were burning, the fields were bare, and the ducks stopped flying."

Be red! 2007

Scotland, peat-bogs, — and now swelling into huge heavy ascents, which wanted the dignity and form of hills, while they were still more toilsome to the passenger.

Rob Roy 2005

Twice I lost my way, and I had some nasty falls into peat-bogs.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Away and away I followed, till the dogs 'barking was faint in the night and the three lonely hills were looming before me, and I saw the wild-fire glimmer on the peat-bogs and the moon going down as I whistled and whistled for the dogs.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Samples have been obtained by boring to different depths in many widely distributed peat-bogs, and these samples have been analyzed and tested in order to determine their origin, nature, and fuel value.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 Herbert M. Wilson

In the United States there are peat-bogs of considerable extent, in which a substance exactly resembling cannel coal has been found; and in some of the Irish peat-beds, as also in the North of Scotland, a similar substance has been discovered, of a very inflammable nature, resembling coal.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

"Has the de'il run away wi 'the excise-man, Mirren, that you're risking horseflesh among the peat-bogs?"

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars