I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over thebogland on the right hand side of the road.
1953 May, P. W. B. Semmens, “Impressions of the Irish Railways”, inRailway Magazine, page296:
Even when it has been drained, thebogland does not make a very stable roadbed.
2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, inNew York Times[1]:
I moved west to the moody, slightly creepybogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.