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Argentine Republic, "resembled certain kinds of lignite and boghead coal."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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(New South Wales), Autun, etc., boghead have shown us merely a yellowish-brown amorphous mass holding in suspension lens-shaped or radiating floccose masses which it is scarcely possible to refer to any known vegetable organism.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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Preparations made from New South Wales and Autun boghead presented the same aspect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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Our researches, as we have above stated, have been confined to different cannel coals, anthracite, boghead, and coal plants isolated either in coal pebbles, or in schists and sandstones.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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If boghead was derived from the carbonization of parts that were soluble, or that became so through maceration, and were made insoluble at a given moment by carbonization, we can understand the very peculiar aspect that this combustible presents when it is seen under the microscope.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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These bears include boghead and FreeMortal, both of whom are ranked in the top 15% of our community.
Fool.com Headlines 2010
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Just last month, boghead seemed highly skeptical of the stock's stunning price performance:
Fool.com Headlines 2010
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a different composition from that resulting from the skeletons of plants, such as _cannel coal, pitch coal, boghead_, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various
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