"Bog" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inclination to set it a-going than address to carry it through; and I cannot but chuckle internally, when I think of having seen my most venerable monitor, the future president of some high Scottish court, puffing, blowing, and floundering, like a clumsy cart-horse in a bog where his efforts to extricate himself only plunged him deeper at every awkward struggle, till some one—I myself, for example—took compassion on the moaning monster, and dragged him ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... commanded, And left at large, like a young heir, to make His way to—where he knew not—single handed; As travellers follow over bog and brake An "ignis fatuus;" or as sailors stranded Unto the nearest hut themselves betake; So Juan, following Honour and his nose, Rushed where the thickest fire ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... other hand the production of coals from morasses, as described in note XX. is evinced from the vegetable matters frequently found in them, and in the strata over them; as fern-leaves in nodules of iron-ore, and from the bog-shells or fresh water muscles sometimes found over them, of both which I have what I believe to be specimens; and is further proved from some parts of these beds being only in part transformed to coal; and the other part still retaining not only the form, but some of the properties of ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin
... know that all the game, and all the turf, and all the bog, and all the gravel, and all the furze on this common belong to the ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... you hear of me being discovered dead in a bog or a pit full of snow, your conscience won't whisper that it is partly ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte
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