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Examples
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But now on the move are only the ghosts risen from the boghole, which leave no trace.
Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009
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But now on the move are only the ghosts risen from the boghole, which leave no trace.
19.12 David McDuff 2009
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The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.
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Villains exist in very high places, as well as in the boghole.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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Villains exist in very high places, as well as in the boghole.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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Though this unsightly boghole has been gradually filled in, it still forms a blot on the landscape which might, nevertheless, with a little effort and comparatively small expense, be transformed into a charming open air theater.
The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw
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The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Tie the bag around his head, and if the peelers come, we'll put him head-first in the boghole is beyond the ditch.
The Tinker's Wedding 1911
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[Page 22] would be too good for him; that he would plunge him up to the throat in a boghole, and leave him for the crows to pick his eyes out.
Maria Edgeworth 1905
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