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bogs

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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. Plutarch

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered. Ambrose Bierce

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson

After a laborious exercise in draining one of these bogs (the so-called "Suslov's crater", convert in diameter), he found there was an old stump on the bottom, ruling out the possibility that it was a meteoric crater. Source: Internet

A key element of these bogs is Sphagnum Moss, which acts as a sponge, absorbing up to twenty times its weight in water. Source: Internet

It is a term used to describe the flickers of light over the peat bogs during the night resulting from the spontaneous combustion of gases caused by the rotting organic matter. Source: Internet

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