How To Use Boggy In A Sentence
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It's called a butterwort, and it always grows in boggy places; I wouldn't advise you to go after one again without asking father first.
Milly and Olly
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The hosts could not cope with the diminutive striker on a boggy pitch.
The Sun
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Further north you have service berries or juneberries in the wet woodlands; bearberries on the moors and heaths, checkerberries or wintergreen in the woods and moors, and cranberries in the boggy heaths, which has berries that remain on the plant throughout winter.
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At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot.
A Model Victory
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The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous.
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It is practically surrounded by boggy land some still uncut and all the rest reclaimed and, like Charlestown, was a new town, as ages of towns go.
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His best form has come in boggy ground and he just lacks the class to plunder this pot.
The Sun
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My sight-lines and thought-lines to it are interrupted by the thick boggy hills and dazzling waters of Connemara.
Commonplace: How am I to lose myself once again among the stones of Aran?
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Another group helicoptered to a boggy lakebed near the range's high point.
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Closing my eyes I can see, across the boggy run, a six-foot alligator erupting from the speckled combination of dark water and bright bladderwort.
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At ground level it comprises tracts of both dense and open-canopy forest dominated by conifers such as fir, larch, pine, and spruce, interleaved with boggy terrains.
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This wide extent of habitats includes upland moors, grassy or boggy open areas in forests and damp grasslands and traditionally managed hayfields particularly in river valleys.
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Many thrive in boggy soil, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also some marvellously statuesque perennials for boggy soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plant medium container should be kept very moist to keep the boggy condition.
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There was a boggy place in the road but we could go through it as long as neither horse in the team balked.
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Keep to the track the moor is very boggy around here.
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The sections where muddy trails would have cut through boggy ground are now protected by wooden walkways.
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As the flames quickly form and die they appear to dance around the boggy ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot.
A Model Victory
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The terrain along this lengthy irregular border was bisected by an enormous tract of riverine swamp, the Pripet Marshes, 100,000 square kilometers of boggy ground that stretches from southwestern Belorussia into northeastern Ukraine.
Deathride
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From the Indian languages come chipmunk, mackinaw (a bush jacket), moose, muskeg (boggy, mossy land), muskrat.
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It was a boggy prairie about a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, flanked all around by hills and by two mountains.
George Washington’s First War
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You shall find, that of old they made carts and other carriages of it; and for piles to superstruct on in boggy grounds; most of Venice, and Amsterdam is built upon them, with so excessive charge, as some report, the foundations of their houses cost as much, as what is erected on them; there being driven in no fewer than 13659 great masts of this timber, under the new Stadt-house of Amsterdam.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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The 63-year-old was strolling through the boggy farm field with a friend and her dog when the herd charged.
The Sun
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the ground was boggy under foot
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They feed by pushing their long beaks into boggy ground, and can swallow worms without pulling their beaks out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chaos plagued the Washington, D.C., encampment, which literally sunk in mire as early-summer rains turned “Resurrection City” into a boggy mess.
Burial for a King
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Shortly after passing a group of holly trees, the path starts to bear left over more boggy ground, and the upper slopes and crags come into view.
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The penalty of unmerited food had produced an autotoxic anaemia, and she was pale and weepy, easily fatigued, sleeping poorly, with the boggy thyroid and overactive tendon reflexes so common in subacidosis.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
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They feed by pushing their long beaks into boggy ground, and can swallow worms without pulling their beaks out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take the track forking sharply left and follow this boggy walled route gradually uphill along a ridge for a further one and a half miles.
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The ground underfoot was still hopelessly boggy, and as I jumped the half metre distance from the van to the floor, little specks of mud flew everywhere.
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The path initially heads south west, but it immediately swings back round to neatly circumnavigate a boggy section.
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Only exceptionally cloudy, boggy areas might survive the intense heat radiation from the reentering debris.
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This is only done on a dry day when the ground is not boggy underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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They feed by pushing their long beaks into boggy ground, and can swallow worms without pulling their beaks out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I balanced atop a trapeze of ropy branches ten feet above the boggy ground, my pack suddenly slipped over my head and I plunged forward.
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Along the walls on the ground is a series of round stones, some of them capped with a straw collar or hassock, on which the boys sit; others have bosses, and many of them hobs -- a light but compact kind of boggy substance found in the mountains.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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The accident had occurred in the midst of a wooded stretch, wild and uninhabited, with "soup" (as Sydney called the boggy land) on both sides in the dense undergrowth.
The Mystery at Number Six
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The hosts could not cope with the diminutive striker on a boggy pitch.
The Sun
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This is followed by boggy marshland which is regularly flooded by the sea and broken up by many lagoons.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.
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W Rough, wet and boggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many thrive in boggy soil, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.
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First though a dip across today's valley, from the moor, down through birch, the squelch of boggy bits, a first crossing of Ladhill Beck and then up through bilberries and a rock field.
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It's happy in sun or shade, in any soil except boggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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By Matt K, March 9, 2010 @ 8: 06 am sparty: “Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
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This, he said, is backed up by remnants of nibbled grass in the mound, which he thinks shows livestock were brought to graze on land that was once boggy marshland.
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It was a boggy pitch, played in howling winds.
The Sun
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They rise, if not from the ashes, then from the boggy ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the French knights may have been initially mounted, many were forced to dismount to lead their troops across boggy ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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The landing should have been straight forward but the aircraft ran into boggy ground, stopped suddenly and tipped over.
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
Walden~ Chapter 10 (historical)
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog.
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Then in April he advises to dig about them: Some raise them abundantly, by laying poles of them in a boggy earth only: Of these they formerly made vine-props, _juga_, as Pliny calls them, for archwise bending and yoaking, as it were, the branches to one another; and one acre hath been known to yield props sufficient to serve a vine-yard of 25 acres.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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Many also thrive in permanently boggy soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are actually being used in this country to reclaim swampy, boggy land.
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Keep to the track-the land is very boggy around here.
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In the boggy areas, buttercups, hogweed, long tall grasses and rich green reeds filled every available inch of land and mire.
FALLEN WOMEN
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My derelict caravan was a permanent fixture in their boggy field.
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Artists' impressions have been drawn up to simulate how the classroom could look, with a boggy area designed to encourage frogs and other insects to the land.
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There are also some marvellously statuesque perennials for boggy soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
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Let pitches get boggy instead of playing on bowling greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot.
A Model Victory
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So thick was the growth, so boggy the earth, that at the last it had been pronounced impenetrable and left unrazed.
The Long Roll
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In the photo ..., two locals are "guiding" us through a deep, boggy, messy stretch of road.
Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories
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The path is flat but below the spring line, so there are boggy bits for muddy boots, wet zone rushes and grasses and little ponds.
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There were no houses or villages, only the occasional ruined farmhouse surrounded by pine trees and sandy, boggy ground.
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We gathered a few, however, by way of doing our Maying, adding to them some violets scattered along the roadside, and a bunch of the golden flowers of the marsh marigold, which enticed us off the road into a low, boggy spot, by their bright blossoms; a handsome flower, this – the country people call it cowslip, though differing entirely from the true plant of that name.
Rural Hours
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Thought to be named after the cranes which feed on them, cranberries proliferate in the boggy marshlands of the Canadian and North American seaboard.
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When the Germans had sealed the city off in early September, they found their positions on the southeastern quadrant of the city considerably hindered by boggy ground that extended for several hundred kilometers, an irregular area running all the way from Lake Ilmen to Lake Ladoga on the far northern perimeter of the city.
Deathride
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Turn right here and follow the very indistinct path through heather keeping the boggy babbling brook immediately to your right.
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If deep tissue damage is also present, the area may be indurated or boggy when palpated.
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Rational Review
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Although adjacent to dense forests altered by silviculture, vegetation in the swale resembles that of boggy pine savannas or flatwoods.
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We camped in a boggy hollow on a bluff among scraggy, usnea-bearded spruces.
Travels in Alaska
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There were no houses or villages, only the occasional ruined farmhouse surrounded by pine trees and sandy, boggy ground.
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The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event.
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We pulled dinner from below the lower falls and spent another day crossing Otter Lake and exploring the boggy headwaters of the Steelhead River.
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They feed by pushing their long beaks into boggy ground, and can swallow worms without pulling their beaks out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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In places the ground was boggy, and several times I sank ankle-deep.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Since ciénaga means marsh, or bog in Spanish, and coming from an area of California where there were many people of Spanish, or Mexican decent, I had learned that ciénaga meant the boggy area below a spring on a hillside when I was a boy.
La Hacienda Ci�naga del Carmen
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The plant medium container should be kept very moist to keep the boggy condition.
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Many thrive in boggy soil, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vast new facility stretches across a boggy hillside overlooking the Yell peninsula.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get it right and no one notices; get it wrong and plants languish and die in boggy beds, huge puddles kill lawn, and in the worst case scenario you awake to the slap and gurgle of water in the basement.
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Go through gate at the bottom, cross the boggy ground to a stony lane.
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So far from the sea, fish ponds were a vital source of food and they were perfected as boggy land was drained or dammed all over the area.
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Around the 32 Counties: A Galway town is to honour its own Oscar-winner, Monaghan will stage a 'boggy' national championships, and an unusual game of poker is to take place in Westmeath.
Undefined
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog.
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Another visit to Lake Torrens — Boggy character of
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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The narrow Craven Park pitch is notoriously boggy and Simms knows Salford could be in for a stamina-sapping slog.
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The area would have been too boggy to make flint tools and uninhabitable for humans so experts believe this means the carcass was butchered for meat.
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Hill climbing and boggy fields.
The Sun
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That's right boggy ground there.
Man of Honour
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He told the Gazette: ‘It was a bit misty on top, a bit boggy and the rocks were a bit slippy as well, but the mist cleared.’
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At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot.
A Model Victory
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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
Walden
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a lovely plant; it is the buckbean or marshtrefoil, and generally grows in some boggy spot, such as this.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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The wreckage of a light aircraft was strewn over the boggy and uneven ground at one end of a long, deep furrow.
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Times were slow due to very muddy, boggy, wet conditions.
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Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
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The valley's boggy areas, seeps, and ponderosa-pine forests are home to more than 500 kinds of plants.
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Particularly good on boggy ground, it is another good choice for a large hedge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only exceptionally cloudy, boggy areas might survive the intense heat radiation from the reentering debris.
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The hosts could not cope with the diminutive striker on a boggy pitch.
The Sun
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They will grow on any soil once established, apart from boggy permanently wet sites.
Times, Sunday Times
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NB: riverside path is very boggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many thrive in boggy soil, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ground was wet and boggy and the yellow grasses had been raised up into high tussocks.
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Sometimes, towards the end of February, walking across a boggy area where heather gave way to rushes and reed grasses, I would be startled by an eerie throbbing, bleating sound rising to a soft, fluting crescendo.
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Native perennials such as yarrow and coyote bush were set into a hillside where a stand of eucalyptus had been leveled; Douglas iris and rushes were added to the boggy area where the spring bubbles from below the trunk of a wax myrtle.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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One hole ran along the boggy sides of Brown's Creek.
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Only exceptionally cloudy, boggy areas might survive the intense heat radiation from the reentering debris.
