The soil was soft, in some places dangerously boggy, and the ground was densely covered with large, fernlike plants large enough to reach an elf s shoulder.

He dropped seven bombs on the common there: of course, it was a boggy old place; it left a hole there you could put a house in, nearly.

Cautious going here: this was one of the deep, boggy places.

Hours after I should have reached the ring road I was still skirting boggy places and open water and trying to keep from being somebody's lunch.

The name may have derived from the name of "Alder" trees found in the area (Alder-holt meaning copse of Alder trees), indicating that it was a wet, boggy place.

There can be boggy places, and if I am right about our current location, there may well be places where a man and horse could simply vanish.