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Weather morning some fogg Nicholas Martin & Elias all appeared and went out to mow.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Seats and tables are likewise added, as furniture to the fogg house, and for this purpose the most beautiful moss is always reserved.
The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
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The beds would be full of drip holes all over their surface, and although a good many mushrooms here and there about the bed might perfect themselves, multitudes only reach the pin-head condition -- or possibly the size of peas -- and then fogg off in patches.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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Any impure matter in the bed with which the mycelium comes in contact will destroy the spawn and fogg off the young mushrooms.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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The advantage of using sods instead of soil, he thinks, is that the young clusters of mushrooms never damp or "fogg off" as they are apt to do when soil is used.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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The morning being so thick with fogg, the men that was sent after the horses did not find them all; Capt.
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The last night was disagreeably could; we were unable to set out untill 8 oclock A.M. in consequence of a heavy fogg, which obscured the river in such a manner that we could not
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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If Bell had told that he threw a handkerchief full of eggs from the pier into the boat, or that I ste [e] red the boat to the vessell through a thick fogg about three miles with nothing to guide me but the stars he would have told the truth and the inference would have been somewhat plainer who "exhibited the effects of intemperate drinking."
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While we were upon this part of the Coast the weather was foggy, in so much that we could see but a very little way inland; however, we sometimes saw the Summits of the Mountains above the fogg and
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Clew of Silk; which, whether they were so spun by the Spider, or by the adventitious moisture of a fogg (which I have observ'd to cover all these filaments with such Crystalline Beads) I will not now dispute.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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