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... absently over its azure surface, flecked with white, as though with scattered snowflakes, and dotted here and there with the grey sails of the boats which the herring fishery called out from their moorings under the cliffs. She sat at the edge of a rush-bordered pool in the peaty bog, occasionally bending over it to look at her own image reflected on its glassy surface. Between the folds of the old cloak glistened the necklace of shells which Gethin had given her. It was her twentieth birthday, so she seized the ...

— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine

... geologist. Among the woods of the hill, a short half-mile from the town, there is a morass of comparatively small extent, but considerable depth, which had been laid open by the bursting of a waterspout on the uplands, and in which the dark peaty chasm remained unclosed, though the event had happened ere my birth, until I had become old and curious enough thoroughly to explore it. It was a black miry ravine, some ten or twelve feet in depth. The bogs around waved thick with silvery willows ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... myself with the splendour of these magnificent blooms, I asked Mrs. Eversley what certain little mounds might be that were dotted about the enclosure, beyond the circle of cultivated peaty soil which surrounded ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... you!" cried Ethel eagerly; and the black peaty pond she was looking at seemed to sparkle ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

Words linked to "Peaty" : peat